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Divergent Carbocatalytic Routes in Oxidative Coupling of Benzofused Heteroaryl Dimers: A Mechanistic Update
Casadio, David S.,Aikonen, Santeri,Lenarda, Anna,Nieger, Martin,Hu, Tao,Taubert, Stefan,Sundholm, Dage,Muuronen, Mikko,Wirtanen, Tom,Helaja, Juho
, p. 5283 - 5291 (2021)
Mildly thermal air or HNO3 oxidized activated carbons catalyse oxidative dehydrogenative couplings of benzo[b]fused heteroaryl 2,2’-dimers, e.g., 2-(benzofuran-2-yl)-1H-indole, to chiral 3,3’-coupled cyclooctatetraenes or carbazole-type migrative products under O2 atmosphere. DFT calculations show that the radical cation and the Scholl-type arenium cation mechanisms lead to different products with 2-(benzofuran-2-yl)-1H-indole, being in accord with experimental product distributions.