Friday, February 27, 2009

Lossen Rearrangement

The conversion of O-acyl hydroxamic acids to the corresponding isocyanates.

Specific degradation of pectins via a carbodiimide-mediated Lossen rearrangement of methyl esterified galacturonic acid residues
Paul W. Needs, Neil M. Rigby, Stephen G. Ring, and Alistair J. MacDougall
Carbohydr. Res., 2001, 333 (1), pp 47-58
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Improved Synthesis of a New Nonpeptidic Inhibitor of Human Neutrophil Elastase
Kazuyuki Ohmoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Toshihide Horiuchi, Tsutomu Kojima, Katsutoshi Hachiya, Shinsuke Hashimoto, Masanori Kawamura, Hisao Nakai, and Masaaki Toda
Synlett, 2001, 2001 (2), pp 299-301
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