637-59-2Relevant articles and documents
Recent advances in heterolytic nucleofugal leaving groups
Lepore, Salvatore D.,Mondal, Deboprosad
, p. 5103 - 5122 (2007)
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Ni-Catalyzed Formal Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Alcohols with Aryl Halides
Lin, Quan,Ma, Guobin,Gong, Hegui
, p. 14102 - 14109 (2021/11/20)
Direct coupling of unactivated alcohols remains a challenge in current synthetic chemistry. We herein demonstrate a strategy building upon in situ halogenation/reductive coupling of alcohols with aryl halides to forge Csp2-Csp3 bonds. The combination of 2-chloro-3-ethylbenzo[d]oxazol-3-ium salt (CEBO) and TBAB as the mild bromination reagents enables rapid transformation of a wide range of alcohols to their bromide counterparts within one to 5 min in CH3CN and DMF, which is compatible with the Ni-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling conditions in the presence of a chemical reductant. The present method is suitable for arylation of a myriad of structurally complex alcohols with no need for prepreparation of alkyl halides. More importantly, the mild and kinetically rapid bromination process has shown good selectivity in the bromination/arylation of symmetric diols and less sterically hindered hydroxyl groups in polyols, thus offering promise for selective functionalization of diols and polyols without laborious protecting/deprotecting operations. The practicality of this work is also evident in the arylation of a number of carbohydrates, drug compounds, and naturally occurring alcohols.
Boron tribromide as a reagent for anti-Markovnikov addition of HBr to cyclopropanes
Chen, Shuming,Gieuw, Matthew H.,Houk, K. N.,Ke, Zhihai,Yeung, Ying-Yeung
, p. 9426 - 9433 (2020/10/02)
Although radical formation from a trialkylborane is well documented, the analogous reaction mode is unknown for trihaloboranes. We have discovered the generation of bromine radicals from boron tribromide and simple proton sources, such as water ortert-butanol, under open-flask conditions. Cyclopropanes bearing a variety of substituents were hydro- and deuterio-brominated to furnish anti-Markovnikov products in a highly regioselective fashion. NMR mechanistic studies and DFT calculations point to a radical pathway instead of the conventional ionic mechanism expected for BBr3