Ma. Birkett et al., DIRECTED DEPROTONATION OF 7-METHYL-1-AMINOBENZOTRIAZOLE - AN APPROACHTO ORTHO-SUBSTITUTED BENZYNE PRECURSORS, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I (Print), (15), 1998, pp. 2301-2305
Lateral deprotonation bf N-Boc-1-amino-7-methylbenzotriazole 7 using B
uLi-TMEDA leads to the synthetically useful dianion 18, which can be a
lkylated and which condenses smoothly with a range of aldehydes, keton
es and epoxides to provide derivatives (19, 20 and 21 respectively), w
hich are potentially useful in the generation of substituted benzynes.