Why are imines important?
1 Answer
Because imine formation represents
Explanation:
From your organic chemistry course, you know that there relatively few ways to make
These reactions are reasonably simple to accomplish by various (and straightforward) means. The fact that the reaction spits out water (i.e. it is a condensation reaction) provides a thermodynamic driving force to the reaction. And thus we have formed a carbon-heteroatom bond (of course, here, the bond is unsaturated). In the best circumstances we may reduce the imine function to give secondary amines.
The hydride transfer reagent may by
Sometimes, this can be done with stereocontrol; of course we'd need a special hydride transfer agent, likely a chiral transition metal complex under dihydrogen.
