A reliable one-pot synthesis of aryl azides from aryl amines using organotin azides as effective and recoverable reagents

Abstract

A mild and mass-efficient procedure based on the one-pot diazotization-azidodediazoniation of aromatic amines is described. A wide range of aryl azides are obtained in moderate to high yields by using tributyltin azide as an effective and reusable azide source in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid at room temperature. The method was also successfully applied employing an insoluble polymer-supported organotin azide.