Hydrogen bonding directed intermolecular Cope-type hydroamination of alkenes.

Intermolecular hydroamination of unactivated alkenes represents a significant synthetic challenge. An efficient Cope-type hydroamination is achieved under mild conditions for reactions of N-alkylhydroxylamines with allylic amines, using hydrogen bonding to achieve increased reactivity and high regioselectivity. This approach provides a number of highly functionalized vicinal diamine motifs as Markovnikov addition products.