Abstract

This review presents a survey of literature reports dealing with both site and peri-selectivities in cycloaddition reactions of nitrilimines with multifunctionalized dipolarophiles. The literature results covered in this review, during the period from 1970 to mid 2013, demonstrate that chemo-selectivity plays an important role in synthetic design.

Keywords: Chemoselectivity, heterocycles, hydrazonoyl halides, nitrilimines.