ChemInform Abstract: Metal-Free Ring-Expansion Reaction of Six-Membered Sulfonylimines with Diazomethanes: An Approach Toward Seven-Membered Enesulfonamides.
Diazomethanes generated in situ from N-tosylhydrazones react with six-membered sulfonylimines to afford ring-expansion products through a Tiffeneau—Demjanov rearrangement and intramolecular proton transfer tautomerization process.