• Reviews: Trimethylamine as a useful oxidizing agent: J. Prakt. Chem./ Chem. Ztg., 338, 190 (1996); The utility of N-oxides in synthesis: Synthesis, 263 (1993).
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Has been used in the oxidation of alkyl halides to aldehydes. For a procedure, including dehydration of the N-oxide by distillation of water with DMF, see: Org. Synth. Coll., 5, 872 (1973):

• For an improved procedure using DMSO, see: Tetrahedron Lett., 31, 4825 (1990).
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For use as a reoxidant in the catalytic cis-hydroxylation of alkenes with Osmium(VIII) oxide, 12103, see: Tetrahedron Lett., 21, 449 (1980).• Also oxidizes alkylboranes to alcohols, giving less interference with other functionality than the more usual H2O2: J. Org. Chem., 40, 1776 (1975).
• Reagent for the liberation of organics from their complexes with iron carbonyls. Partial oxidation of CO to CO2 takes place: J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 336 (1974).
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Deprotonation by LDA at low temperature gives the unstable azomethine ylide, which undergoes 1,3-dipolar addition, even with unactivated alkenes, to give pyrrolidines: J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 31 (1983):
