Alkenes C-H amination

Biologically important species, including amino acids, have unique spectral features which can be exploited to provide measurement selectivity. In the region of 5000 - 4000 cm , the major absorption contributions come from combinations of vibrational transitions for ahphatic C-H, alkene C-H, amine N-H (ionized or not) and 0-H bonds (8). Such spectral differences have been used to selectively measure structurally different compounds, such as glucose and ammonium ions (9), and glucose and glutamine (10). 

The mechanism proposed for Cu(02CCF3)2-catalysed aerobic oxidative intramolecular alkene C—H amination of (130), leading to formation of A-heterocycles in good to excellent yields, is summarized in Scheme 14. ... 

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