Abstract
Hexamethyldisilazane sodium salt (NaHMDS) has been found to be a highly active Lewis base catalyst for the Staudinger reaction with disubstituted ketenes and imines. This organocatalyst gave highly substituted β-lactams in nearly quantitative yield in a very short time of five minutes even at temperatures as low as -78 °C.
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