One-step conversion of azine N-oxides to α-N-aryltriflamidoazines.

Various pyridine, quinoline, isoquinoline, and pyrimidine N-oxides were converted to their corresponding α-N-aryltriflamidoheteroarenes in good yield by treatment with N-aryltriflimides, both neat and in solution, at temperatures ranging from rt to 100 °C.