Novel degenerate sigmatropic rearrangements of amidines
Abstract
N-Nitroso-N,N′-diarylamidines (1) and N-(1,2,3,4,5-pentakismethoxycarbonylcyclopentadienyl)-N,N′-diarylamidines (2) prepared by the reaction of N,N′-diarylamidines with 5-nitro-1,2,3,4,5-pentakismethoxycarbonylcyclopentadiene show fluxional behaviour arising from degenerate sigmatropic 1,3-shifts of the nitroso group in (1) and 3,3-shifts of the amidinyl moiety in (2).