a Département de Chimie Moléculaire, UMR-5250, ICMG FR-2607, CNRS-Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09, France b Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulan Road, Hong Kong, PR China
Abstract:
Carbohydrate-derived cyclic nitrones were deoxygenated to form the corresponding imines using tributylphosphine. Experimental and theoretical investigations by the way of MP2 calculations suggest a revision of the mechanism initially proposed by Kurtzweil and Beak for the triarylphosphine-mediated deoxygenation of nitrones.