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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the parent compound, see <a href="Aziridine" title="Aziridine">Aziridine</a>.</div>

<p>In <a href="Organic_chemistry" title="Organic chemistry">organic chemistry</a>, <b>aziridines</b> are <a href="Organic_compound" title="Organic compound">organic compounds</a> containing the aziridine <a href="Functional_group" title="Functional group">functional group</a> (<a href="Chemical_structure" title="Chemical structure">chemical structure</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1123817410">
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</style><span class="chemf nowrap">(R−)<sub class="template-chem2-sub">4</sub>C<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>N−R</span>), a three-membered <a href="Heterocycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterocycle">heterocycle</a> with one <a href="Amine" title="Amine">amine</a> (<span class="chemf nowrap">&gt;NR</span>) and two <a href="Methylene_bridge" title="Methylene bridge">methylene bridges</a> (<span class="chemf nowrap">&gt;CR<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The parent compound is <a href="Aziridine" title="Aziridine">aziridine</a> (or ethylene imine), with <a href="Molecular_formula" class="mw-redirect" title="Molecular formula">molecular formula</a> <span class="chemf nowrap">C<sub class="template-chem2-sub">2</sub>H<sub class="template-chem2-sub">4</sub>NH</span>. Several drugs feature aziridine rings, including <a href="RMC-9805" title="RMC-9805">zoldonrasib</a>, <a href="Thiotepa" title="Thiotepa">thiotepa</a>, <a href="Mitomycin_C" title="Mitomycin C">mitomycin C</a>, <a href="Porfiromycin" title="Porfiromycin">porfiromycin</a>, and <a href="Azinomycin_B" title="Azinomycin B">azinomycin B</a> (carzinophilin).<sup id="cite_ref-bio_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure">Structure</h2></div>
<p>The <a href="Bond_angle" class="mw-redirect" title="Bond angle">bond angles</a> in aziridine are approximately 60°, considerably less than the normal <a href="Hydrocarbon" title="Hydrocarbon">hydrocarbon</a> bond angle of 109.5°, which results in <a href="Ring_strain" title="Ring strain">angle strain</a> as in the comparable <a href="Cyclopropane" title="Cyclopropane">cyclopropane</a> and <a href="Ethylene_oxide" title="Ethylene oxide">ethylene oxide</a> molecules. A <a href="Banana_bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Banana bond">banana bond</a> model explains bonding in such compounds. Aziridine is less <a href="Base_(chemistry)" title="Base (chemistry)">basic</a> than <a href="Open_chain_compound" class="mw-redirect" title="Open chain compound">acyclic</a> <a href="Aliphatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliphatic">aliphatic</a> amines, with a <a href="PKa" class="mw-redirect" title="PKa">pKa</a> of 7.9 for the <a href="Conjugate_acid" class="mw-redirect" title="Conjugate acid">conjugate acid</a>, due to increased <a href="Orbital_hybridization" class="mw-redirect" title="Orbital hybridization">s character</a> of the <a href="Nitrogen" title="Nitrogen">nitrogen</a> <a href="Free_electron_pair" class="mw-redirect" title="Free electron pair">free electron pair</a>. <a href="Angle_strain" class="mw-redirect" title="Angle strain">Angle strain</a> in aziridine also increases the barrier to <a href="Nitrogen_inversion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nitrogen inversion">nitrogen inversion</a>. This barrier height permits the isolation of separate <i>invertomers</i>, for example the <a href="Cis_isomer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cis isomer"><i>cis</i></a> and <a href="Trans_isomer" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans isomer"><i>trans</i></a> invertomers of <i>N</i>-chloro-2-methylaziridine.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synthesis">Synthesis</h2></div>
<p>Several routes have been developed for the <a href="Organic_synthesis" title="Organic synthesis">syntheses</a> of aziridines (<b>aziridination</b>).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vicinal_cyclization">Vicinal cyclization</h3></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Haloamines,_aminoalcohols_and_azidoalcohols">Haloamines, aminoalcohols and azidoalcohols</h4></div>
<p>In vicinal haloamines, the <a href="Amine" title="Amine">amine</a> functional group spontaneously displaces the adjacent <a href="Halide" title="Halide">halide</a> to generate an aziridine. The reaction is an <a href="Intramolecular_reaction" title="Intramolecular reaction">intramolecular</a> <a href="Nucleophilic_substitution" title="Nucleophilic substitution">nucleophilic substitution</a>, similar to the base-induced cyclization of <a href="Halohydrin" title="Halohydrin">halohydrins</a> to epoxides.
With appropriate activating agents, vicinal cyclization is similarly possible with aminoalcohols, themselves efficiently produced from opening epoxides with <a href="Amine" title="Amine">amines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The parent aziridine is produced industrially from <a href="Aminoethanol" title="Aminoethanol">aminoethanol</a> via two related routes. The Nippon Shokubai process requires an oxide catalyst and high temperatures to effect the dehydration. In the <a href="Wenker_synthesis" title="Wenker synthesis">Wenker synthesis</a>, the aminoethanol is converted to the <a href="Sulfate_ester" class="mw-redirect" title="Sulfate ester">sulfate ester</a>, which undergoes base-induced sulfate elimination.<sup id="cite_ref-Ullmann_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ullmann-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In the laboratory, aminoalcohols can be induced to cyclize with the <a href="Mitsunobu_reaction" title="Mitsunobu reaction">Mitsunobu reaction</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
but Mitsunobu conditions more fruitfully apply to 2-azido alcohols. Trialkyl phosphines such as <a href="Trimethylphosphine" title="Trimethylphosphine">trimethylphosphine</a> or <a href="Tributylphosphine" title="Tributylphosphine">tributylphosphine</a> reduce azidoalcohols to an α‑alcohol <a href="Phosphine_imide" title="Phosphine imide">phosphine imide</a>, which then cyclizes to an aziridine.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In the <a href="Blum-Ittah_aziridine_synthesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Blum-Ittah aziridine synthesis">Blum-Ittah aziridine synthesis</a>, the initial azidoalcohol forms when <a href="Sodium_azide" title="Sodium azide">sodium azide</a> <a href="Ring-opening_reaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring-opening reaction">opens</a> an <a href="Epoxide" title="Epoxide">epoxide</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The <a href="De_Kimpe_aziridine_synthesis" title="De Kimpe aziridine synthesis">De Kimpe aziridine synthesis</a> allows for the generation of aziridines by reacting an <a href="Imine" title="Imine">α-chloroimine</a> with a nucleophile, such as <a href="Hydride" title="Hydride">hydride</a>, <a href="Cyanide" title="Cyanide">cyanide</a>, or a <a href="Grignard_reagent" title="Grignard reagent">Grignard reagent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="Hoch-Campbell_ethylenimine_synthesis" title="Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis">Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis</a> involves the reaction of certain <a href="Oxime" title="Oxime">oximes</a> with <a href="Grignard_reagent" title="Grignard reagent">Grignard reagents</a>, which affords aziridines:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nitrene_addition_and_triazoline_contraction">Nitrene addition and triazoline contraction</h3></div>
<p><a href="Nitrene" title="Nitrene">Nitrene</a> addition to <a href="Alkene" title="Alkene">alkenes</a> is a well-established method for the synthesis of aziridines, and occurs for a wide variety of nitrenoid precursors.
</p><p>Nitrenes can be prepared <i>in situ</i> when <a href="Iodosobenzene_diacetate" class="mw-redirect" title="Iodosobenzene diacetate">iodosobenzene diacetate</a> oxidizes various <a href="Amide_(functional_group)" title="Amide (functional group)">amides</a>, or from deprotonation of an aminoester:<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p><a href="Rhodium(II)_acetate" title="Rhodium(II) acetate">Rhodium(II) carboxylates</a> catalyze nitrene formation from <i>O</i>-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydroxylamine (DPH), which then aziridates a mono-, di-, tri- or tetra-substituted alkene (olefin):<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Alternatively, <a href="Photolysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Photolysis">photolysis</a> or <a href="Thermolysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Thermolysis">thermolysis</a> of <a href="Organic_azide" title="Organic azide">organic azides</a> are good ways to generate nitrenes. The same conditions also contract triazolines, expelling <a href="Nitrogen" title="Nitrogen">nitrogen</a> and producing an aziridine.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reactions">Reactions</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nucleophilic_ring_opening">Nucleophilic ring opening</h3></div>
<p>Aziridines are reactive substrates in ring-opening reactions with many <a href="Nucleophile" title="Nucleophile">nucleophiles</a> due to their <a href="Ring_strain" title="Ring strain">ring strain</a>. Alcoholysis and aminolysis are basically the reverse reactions of the cyclizations. Carbon nucleophiles such as <a href="Organolithium_reagent" title="Organolithium reagent">organolithium reagents</a> and <a href="Organocuprate" class="mw-redirect" title="Organocuprate">organocuprates</a> are also effective.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>One application of a ring-opening reaction in <a href="Asymmetric_synthesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Asymmetric synthesis">asymmetric synthesis</a> is that of <a href="Trimethylsilylazide" class="mw-redirect" title="Trimethylsilylazide">trimethylsilylazide</a> <span class="chemf nowrap">TMSN<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">3</sub></span></span></span> with an asymmetric ligand<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <i>scheme 2</i><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in an <a href="Organic_synthesis" title="Organic synthesis">organic synthesis</a> of <a href="Oseltamivir_total_synthesis" title="Oseltamivir total synthesis">oseltamivir</a>:
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1,3-dipole_formation">1,3-dipole formation</h3></div>
<p>Certain N-substituted azirines with <a href="Electron_withdrawing_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Electron withdrawing group">electron withdrawing groups</a> on both carbons form <a href="Azomethine_ylide" title="Azomethine ylide">azomethine ylides</a> in an <a href="Electrocyclic_reaction" title="Electrocyclic reaction">electrocyclic</a> thermal or photochemical <a href="Ring-opening_reaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring-opening reaction">ring-opening reaction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These ylides can be trapped with a suitable <a href="Dipolarophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Dipolarophile">dipolarophile</a> in a <a href="1%2C3-dipolar_cycloaddition" class="mw-redirect" title="1,3-dipolar cycloaddition">1,3-dipolar cycloaddition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>When the N-substituent is an <a href="Electron-withdrawing_group" title="Electron-withdrawing group">electron-withdrawing group</a> such as a <a href="Tosyl" class="mw-redirect" title="Tosyl">tosyl</a> group, the <a href="Carbon-nitrogen_bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon-nitrogen bond">carbon-nitrogen bond</a> breaks, forming another <a href="Zwitterion" title="Zwitterion">zwitterion</a> <span class="chemf nowrap">TsN<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:0.8em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">−</sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sub></span></span>–CH<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">2</sub></span></span>–CH<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">+</sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">2</sub></span></span>–R</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>This reaction type requires a <a href="Lewis_acid" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis acid">Lewis acid</a> catalyst such as <a href="Boron_trifluoride" title="Boron trifluoride">boron trifluoride</a>. In this way 2-phenyl-<i>N</i>-tosylaziridine reacts with alkynes, <a href="Nitrile" title="Nitrile">nitriles</a>, <a href="Ketone" title="Ketone">ketones</a> and <a href="Alkene" title="Alkene">alkenes</a>. Certain 1,4-dipoles form from <a href="Azetidine" title="Azetidine">azetidines</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div>
<p>Lewis acids, such as B(<span class="chemf nowrap">C<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">6</sub></span></span>F<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">5</sub></span></span></span><span class="chemf nowrap">)<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">3</sub></span></span></span>, can induce decomposition of the ring to a <a href="Carbocation" title="Carbocation">carbocation</a> and linear <a href="Azanide" title="Azanide">azanide</a>, which then attack <a href="Saturated_and_unsaturated_compounds" title="Saturated and unsaturated compounds">unsaturated</a> moieties in <a href="Tandem_reaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Tandem reaction">tandem</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oxidation to the <a href="N-oxide" class="mw-redirect" title="N-oxide">N-oxide</a> instead induces <a href="Nitroso" title="Nitroso">nitroso</a> compound extrusion, leaving an <a href="Olefin" class="mw-redirect" title="Olefin">olefin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Safety">Safety</h2></div>
<p>As <a href="Electrophile" title="Electrophile">electrophiles</a>, aziridines are subject to attack and ring-opening by endogenous nucleophiles such as nitrogenous bases in DNA base pairs, resulting in potential mutagenicity.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The <a href="International_Agency_for_Research_on_Cancer" title="International Agency for Research on Cancer">International Agency for Research on Cancer</a> (IARC) classifies aziridine compounds as possibly <a href="Carcinogenic" class="mw-redirect" title="Carcinogenic">carcinogenic</a> to humans (<a href="List_of_IARC_Group_2B_carcinogens" class="mw-redirect" title="List of IARC Group 2B carcinogens">IARC Group 2B</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In making the overall evaluation, the IARC Working Group took into consideration that aziridine is a direct-acting <a href="Alkylating_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Alkylating agent">alkylating agent</a>, which is <a href="Mutagenic" class="mw-redirect" title="Mutagenic">mutagenic</a> in a wide range of test systems and forms DNA adducts that are promutagenic. The features that are responsible for their mutagenicity are relevant to their beneficial medicinal properties.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Binary_ethylenimine" title="Binary ethylenimine">Binary ethylenimine</a>, a dimeric form of aziridine</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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