Evidence for a 1,3-sigmatropic rearrangement of a nitrile N-benzylimide to a C-benzyl-substituted diazoalkane
Abstract
The flash vacuum pyrolysis of N-benzyl-2-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazolin-5-one generates a nitrile N-imide which rearranges to a diazoalkane via a 1,3-sigmatropic benzyl shift.