Solvent-dependent-controlled selective synthesis of β-nitrated N-heterocycles and N-nitroso chain 2-alkoxyamine aldehydes has been successfully realized viatBuONO and oxoammonium salt promoted cascade reactions of inactivated cyclic amines.

In this paper, selective cleavage and tunable functionalization of the inert C−C/C−N bonds in N-arylpiperidines promoted by t BuONO under metal-free conditions is presented. To be specific, when the reaction was run in acetonitrile in the presence of molecular sieves, the synthetically useful acyclic N-formyl nitriles are formed. On the other hand, when alcohol was used as the reaction medium, the corresponding reactions afforded N-nitroso chain esters as dominating products via a mechanistically different pathway.

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