Organic azides are recognized for their use as reactive synthetic intermediates as well their function as energetic compounds.  It is due to this second property perhaps that methods that afford organic azides have seen limited development and can suffer from lower yields.  Our research aims to access vinyl azides through a mild transition metal-catalyzed coupling of easily accessed vinyl triflates with a metal azide.  The optimization of this method will employ Palladium catalysis and include an investigation into several catalytic and stoichiometric metal azide sources.

Synthesizing vinyl azides through a transition metal-catalyzed coupling of vinyl triflates and metal azides

245th National Meeting (2013)

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