- Unlocking the Accessibility of Alkyl Radicals from Boronic Acids through Solvent-Assisted Organophotoredox Activation
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Despite their prevalence in organic synthesis, the application of boronic acids (BAs) as alkyl radical precursors in visible-light-assisted photocatalyzed reactions has been limited by their high oxidation potential. This study demonstrates the prominent
- Ranjan, Prabhat,Pillitteri, Serena,Coppola, Guglielmo,Oliva, Monica,Van der Eycken, Erik V.,Sharma, Upendra K.
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p. 10862 - 10870
(2021/09/08)
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- Site-Specific Alkene Hydromethylation via Protonolysis of Titanacyclobutanes
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Methyl groups are ubiquitous in biologically active molecules. Thus, new tactics to introduce this alkyl fragment into polyfunctional structures are of significant interest. With this goal in mind, a direct method for the Markovnikov hydromethylation of alkenes is reported. This method exploits the degenerate metathesis reaction between the titanium methylidene unveiled from Cp2Ti(μ-Cl)(μ-CH2)AlMe2 (Tebbe's reagent) and unactivated alkenes. Protonolysis of the resulting titanacyclobutanes in situ effects hydromethylation in a chemo-, regio-, and site-selective manner. The broad utility of this method is demonstrated across a series of mono- and di-substituted alkenes containing pendant alcohols, ethers, amides, carbamates, and basic amines.
- Bartfield, Noah M.,Frederich, James H.,Law, James A.
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supporting information
p. 14360 - 14364
(2021/05/27)
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- Enantioselective Alkylation of 2-Alkylpyridines Controlled by Organolithium Aggregation
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Direct enantioselective α-alkylation of 2-alkylpyridines provides access to chiral pyridines via an operationally simple protocol that obviates the need for prefunctionalization or preactivation of the substrate. The alkylation is accomplished using chiral lithium amides as noncovalent stereodirecting auxiliaries. Crystallographic and solution NMR studies provide insight into the structure of well-defined chiral aggregates in which a lithium amide reagent directs asymmetric alkylation.
- Gladfelder, Joshua J.,Ghosh, Santanu,Podunavac, Ma?a,Cook, Andrew W.,Ma, Yun,Woltornist, Ryan A.,Keresztes, Ivan,Hayton, Trevor W.,Collum, David B.,Zakarian, Armen
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supporting information
p. 15024 - 15028
(2019/10/22)
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- Photocatalyzed Site-Selective C(sp3)-H Functionalization of Alkylpyridines at Non-Benzylic Positions
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Tetrabutylammonium decatungstate (TBADT)-photocatalyzed C-H functionalization of alkylpyridines was investigated. Unlike alkylbenzene counterparts, alkylation of α-C-H bonds did not proceed for the reaction of 2- and 4-alkylpyridines and reluctantly proceeded for 3-alkylpyridines, which allow site-selective C(sp3)-H functionalization at nonbenzylic positions. The observed nonbenzylic site selectivities are rationalized by the polar inductive effects of pyridyl groups in the SH2 transition states. Consecutive γ-functionalization and α-bromofunctionalization were successfully carried out in selected cases.
- Fukuyama, Takahide,Nishikawa, Tomohiro,Yamada, Keiichi,Ravelli, Davide,Fagnoni, Maurizio,Ryu, Ilhyong
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supporting information
p. 6436 - 6439
(2017/12/08)
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- Zn-promoted regio- and sequence-selective one-pot joining reactions of three components: vinylpyridines, alkyl iodides, and carbonyl compounds (or nitriles)
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Addition of alkyl iodides (3) into the solution containing 2-(or 4-)vinylpyridine (1 or 2) and carbonyl compounds (6) in the presence of Zn-powder (99.9%) in acetonitrile under refluxing brought about regio- and sequence-selective joining reaction of thre
- Mineyama, Kenji,Maekawa, Hirofumi,Kohsaka, Akihiro,Yamamoto, Yoshimasa,Nishiguchi, Ikuzo
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experimental part
p. 7706 - 7711
(2009/12/04)
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- Intramolecular Photochemical Hydrogen Abstraction in 2-Alkylpyrazines and 2-Alkylpyridines
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Photochemical hydrogen abstraction in 2-alkylpyrazines 5-8 and 2-alkylpyridines 9-11 proceeds analogously to the process of eq 1.Hydroxylic solvent causes quantum yields for pyrazine fragmentation products (Φp) to increase about 1 order of magnitude.Pyridine fragmentation takes place from both singlet and triplet states.Pyrazine fragmentations follow Stern-Volmer kinetics with modest bond strength selectivity (1 deg : 3 deg ca. 1:17 for 5a and 5c).Methyl substitution lowers the rate of abstraction in pyrazines and trifluoromethyl substitution increases Φp in pyridines.It is suggested that these effects reflect changes in the n?* and ??* character of the reactive excited states.
- Mukherjee, Ashis,Duggan, Sandhya A. M.,Agosta, William C.
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p. 178 - 181
(2007/10/02)
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