Ar. Katritzky et al., GENERATION AND REACTIVITY OF N,N-DIMETHYLAMINOBENZOTRIAZOLYLCARBENE ANEW NUCLEOPHILIC CARBENE, Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, 33(6), 1996, pp. 1935-1941
N,N-Dimethylaminobenzotriazolylcarbene (5) reacted with phenyl isocyan
ate in a [1+2+2] cycloaddition and then with nucleophiles to generate
various hydantoins 10 in a one-pot procedure. It was also found that t
his novel carbene reacted with trans-dibenzoylethylene (11) in a [1+4]
cycloaddition, generating 2-dimethylamino-3-benzoyl-5-phenylfuran (13
) and 2-phenyl-3-[benzotriazol-1-yl]-4-benzoylfuran (14) whose structu
res were confirmed by H-1-C-13 long range correlations as well as the
structure of furan 14 being confirmed by X-ray crystallography.