- Photo-induced thiolate catalytic activation of inert Caryl-hetero bonds for radical borylation
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Substantial effort is currently being devoted to obtaining photoredox catalysts with high redox power. Yet, it remains challenging to apply the currently established methods to the activation of bonds with high bond dissociation energy and to substrates with high reduction potentials. Herein, we introduce a novel photocatalytic strategy for the activation of inert substituted arenes for aryl borylation by using thiolate as a catalyst. This catalytic system exhibits strong reducing ability and engages non-activated Caryl–F, Caryl–X, Caryl–O, Caryl–N, and Caryl–S bonds in productive radical borylation reactions, thus expanding the available aryl radical precursor scope. Despite its high reducing power, the method has a broad substrate scope and good functional-group tolerance. Spectroscopic investigations and control experiments suggest the formation of a charge-transfer complex as the key step to activate the substrates.
- K?nig, Burkhard,Wang, Hua,Wang, Shun
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p. 1653 - 1665
(2021/06/17)
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- Transformations of Aryl Ketones via Ligand-Promoted C?C Bond Activation
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The coupling of aromatic electrophiles (aryl halides, aryl ethers, aryl acids, aryl nitriles etc.) with nucleophiles is a core methodology for the synthesis of aryl compounds. Transformations of aryl ketones in an analogous manner via carbon–carbon bond activation could greatly expand the toolbox for the synthesis of aryl compounds due to the abundance of aryl ketones. An exploratory study of this approach is typically based on carbon–carbon cleavage triggered by ring-strain release and chelation assistance, and the products are also limited to a specific structural motif. Here we report a ligand-promoted β-carbon elimination strategy to activate the carbon–carbon bonds, which results in a range of transformations of aryl ketones, leading to useful aryl borates, and also to biaryls, aryl nitriles, and aryl alkenes. The use of a pyridine-oxazoline ligand is crucial for this catalytic transformation. A gram-scale borylation reaction of an aryl ketone via a simple one-pot operation is reported. The potential utility of this strategy is also demonstrated by the late-stage diversification of drug molecules probenecid, adapalene, and desoxyestrone, the fragrance tonalid as well as the natural product apocynin.
- Dai, Hui-Xiong,Li, Hanyuan,Li, Ling-Jun,Liu, Qi-Sheng,Ma, Biao,Wang, Mei-Ling,Wang, Xing,Wang, Zhen-Yu,Xu, Hui
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p. 14388 - 14393
(2020/07/06)
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- Electronic effects in iridium C-H borylations: Insights from unencumbered substrates and variation of boryl ligand substituents
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Experiment and theory favour a model of C-H borylation where significant proton transfer character exists in the transition state. The Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Vanchura II, Britt A.,Preshlock, Sean M.,Roosen, Philipp C.,Kallepalli, Venkata A.,Staples, Richard J.,Maleczka Jr., Robert E.,Singleton, Daniel A.,Smith III, Milton R.
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 7724 - 7726
(2010/12/20)
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