Pivaloylnitrene, generated photolytically from pivaloyl azide, does not rearrange to f-butyl isocyanate at a detectable rate. Neither singlet nor triplet pivaloylnitrene are intermediates in the thermal or in the photoinduced Curtius rearrangement of pivaloyl azide. Both rearrangements are most likely concerted processes.
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