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Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diaryl Acetamides, Benzofurans, Benzophenones, and Xanthenes by Transition-Metal-Free Oxidative Cross-Coupling of sp3 and sp2 C-H Bonds
Rathore, Vandana,Sattar, Moh.,Kumar, Raushan,Kumar, Sangit
, p. 9206 - 9218 (2016/10/14)
A chemo- and regioselective intermolecular sp3 C-H and sp2 C-H coupling reaction for C-C bond formation is described to access unsymmetrical diaryl acetamides under TM-free conditions from sec- and tert-arylacetamides and nitroarenes using tert-butoxide base in DMSO at room temperature. The coupling partners with sensitive functionalities such as chloro, bromo, hydroxy, and cyano were also amenable to the developed reaction. Synthesized α-(2/4-nitroaryl) phenylacetamides have been transformed into biologically important benzofurans, xanthenes, diaryl indoles, and unsymmetrical benzophenones by novel routes without applying a transition metal. Overall, an economical, yet efficient, strategy has been devised to access unsymmetrical diarylacetamides with the possibility of their further elaboration into a variety of biologically important heterocycles. Mechanistic understanding suggests that the reaction proceeds by a nucleophilic addition of a phenylacetamide carbanion, which is generated in the presence of tert-butoxide base, to the para or ortho (if para is substituted) position of nitrobenzene. The formed α-(4-nitrocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-yl) phenylacetamide anion intermediate oxidized by a basic solution of DMSO or atmospheric oxygen led to the desired sp3 C-H and sp2 C-H coupled α-(2/4-nitroaryl) phenylacetamides.
Structure-Activity Studies on Amides Inhibiting Photosystem II
Lewis, Richard J.,Camilleri, Patrick,Kirby, Anthony J.,Marby, Craig A.,Slawin, Alexandra A.,Williams, David J.
, p. 1625 - 1630 (2007/10/02)
A series of N-phenylanilides and N-phenylureas have been synthesised and their 'in vitro' photosystem II activity measured in a cell-free system.An attempt was made to correlate 'in vitro' data with a novel hydrophobicity parameter ?amide (related to the substituent on the phenyl ring) and with the torsion angle θ between the planes of the phenyl and amide moieties.