4165-57-5Relevant articles and documents
Williams et al.
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Entry to 1,2,3,4-Tetrasubstituted Arenes through Addressing the " Meta Constraint" in the Palladium/Norbornene Catalysis
Dong, Guangbin,Liu, Peng,Wang, Jianchun,Xu, Xiaolong,Zhou, Yun
supporting information, p. 3050 - 3059 (2020/03/10)
Arenes with four different contiguous substituents, i.e. 1,2,3,4-tetrasubstituted arenes, are commonly found in bioactive compounds, but they are nontrivial to access via conventional methods. Through addressing the "meta constraint" in the palladium/norbornene (Pd/NBE) cooperative catalysis, which is the difficulty of tolerating a sizable meta substituent in aryl halide substrates, here a modular and regioselective approach is realized for preparing 1,2,3,4-tetrasubstituted arenes. One key is the use of a C2-amide-substituted NBE, and a combined experimental and computational study reveals its role in promoting the NBE insertion and the ortho C-H metalation steps. The scope is broad: A variety of electrophiles and nucleophiles could be introduced to the ortho and ipso positions, respectively, with 1,4-disubstituted aryl halides, leading to diverse unsymmetrical contiguous tetrasubstituted arenes. Application of this approach has been demonstrated in streamlined syntheses of several bioactive compounds.
Visible-Light-Photosensitized Aryl and Alkyl Decarboxylative Functionalization Reactions
Patra, Tuhin,Mukherjee, Satobhisha,Ma, Jiajia,Strieth-Kalthoff, Felix,Glorius, Frank
supporting information, p. 10514 - 10520 (2019/07/12)
Despite significant progress in aliphatic decarboxylation, an efficient and general protocol for radical aromatic decarboxylation has lagged far behind. Herein, we describe a general strategy for rapid access to both aryl and alkyl radicals by photosensitized decarboxylation of the corresponding carboxylic acids esters followed by their successive use in divergent carbon–heteroatom and carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions. Identification of a suitable activator for carboxylic acids is the key to bypass a competing single-electron-transfer mechanism and “switch on” an energy-transfer-mediated homolysis of unsymmetrical σ-bonds for a concerted fragmentation/decarboxylation process.