Chloroamines from alkenes

Very strongly electrophilic radicals are the amino radical cations, RaNH, which can be easily obtained from N-chloroamines they are very versatile and react differently with alkanes >, alkenes alk5mes and aromatics involving potentially most of the organic compounds and showing in all cases an exceptional sensitivity to polar effects. 

Further examples of the Ritter reaction(cf. section IV.B) are provided by the many substituted olefins that may be protonated to ve carbonium ions which can be intercepted by hydrogen cyanide or organic nitriles cyanogen chloride can also be used as intercepting species , but offers no advantages. Mixtures of the two possible amides, and hence amines, are to be expected from non-terminal alkenes and from such olefinic compounds as oleic acid Olefins may also be converted to amines with yields of up to 60%, by hydroboration and subsequent reaction of the organoborane with chloroamine in alkaline solution or preferably with hydroxylamine-0-sulphonic acid in diglyme (reaction 86) The reaction is applicable... 

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