Adapting Bower's intramolecular aziridination reaction allows for a metal-free synthesis of N-H aziridines.
Silver, Raju; Kelley, Steven P.; Sathyamoorthi, Shyam; Organic & biomolecular chemistry 24 (2026) 2504–2509; doi:10.1039/d6ob00025h

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 Adapting Bower's intramolecular aziridination reaction allows for a
 metal-free synthesis of N-H aziridines.
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2026-01-06 deposited with the CCDC.	2026-02-26 downloaded from the CCDC.
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PROBLEM: NonSolvent   Resd 1  C   Ueq(max)/Ueq(min) Range        6.8 Ratio 
RESPONSE: This is due to disorder of a large fraction of the main moiety. 
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