The copper-catalyzed ring-opening reactions of cyclopropanes by N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide toward N-allylsulfonamides

Abstract

In this paper, we reported a copper-catalyzed ring-opening reaction of arylcyclopropanes by N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide, leading to N-allylsulfonamides in moderate to good yields. This procedure tolerated bromo, fluoro, trifluoromethyl, phenyl and alkyl groups in the phenyl, proceeding with a sequential ring-opening of arylcyclopropanes, and copper-mediated β-H elimination of alkyl radical.