Jp. Praly et al., PHOTOLYSIS OF SUGAR ANOMERIC DIAZIDES - SUGAR-DERIVED TETRAZOLES AS EVIDENCES FOR A MAJOR NITRENE DECOMPOSITION PATHWAY, Tetrahedron letters, 35(1), 1994, pp. 89-92
The preponderance of regioisomeric sugar-derived tetrazoles (up to 75%
total yield) obtained upon photolysis of protected (benzyl, acetyl) g
lucopyranosylidene diazides, even in the presence of added acrylonitri
le, proved that azidonitrene intermediates predominate over anomeric c
arbenes, in the reaction. Revisions are presented for its mechanism an
d one structure.