A 2-azido-1-nitrate-ester can be converted to the corresponding 2-azido-1-trichloroacetimidate in a one-pot procedure. The goal of the manuscript is to demonstrate utility of the microwave reactor in carbohydrate synthesis.
Keith, D. J., Marasligiller, S. A., Sasse, A. W., Townsend, S. D. One-pot Microwave-assisted Conversion of Anomeric Nitrate-esters to Trichloroacetimidates. J. Vis. Exp. (131), e56610, doi:10.3791/56610 (2018).