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From Amide to Urea

Posted by naturalproductman on April 17, 2010

Markus Kalesse and co-worker at Leibniz Universität Hannover have recently published in Synlett on a (diacetoxyiodo)benzene (DAIB) protocol to convert amides to ureas via a Hofmann rearrangement.

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Synlett paper

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