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In summary, we have developed a tert-butyl hydroper-
oxide mediated α-aminophosphonylation of tertiary
amines, which represents the first metal-free cross-de-
hydrogenative coupling reaction between α-C–H bonds of
tertiary aliphatic amines and P(O)H compounds.15 Notably,
using commercially available and inexpensive tert-butyl
hydroperoxide as oxidant, this transformation is performed
under a metal-free system. Compared with traditional
cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction of tertiary aryl-
amines with dialkyl H-phosphonate, the most representa-
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aryltetrahydroisoquinolines are good candidates. Further-
more, H-phosphonates and diphenylphosphine oxide are
quite competent to react with N-aryltetrahydroisoquino-
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Funding Information
We acknowledge financial support from the NSFC (21772163,
21778042, 41876072), NFFTBS (J1310024) and the Fundamental
Research Funds for the Central Universities (20720160030).
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References and Notes
Tributylamine (1; 1.5 mmol, 3 equiv), diethyl H-phosphonate
(2; 0.5 mmol, 1 equiv), TBHP (1 or 2 equiv, 70% in water) and
MeCN (2.5 mL) were sequentially placed in a round-bottom
flask at room temperature. The reaction mixture was heated at
80 °C with stirring under an argon atmosphere for 24 hours.
Upon completion, the reaction mixture was concentrated under
vacuum. The residue was purified by silica gel column chroma-
tography using petroleum ether/EtOAc (20:1 to 2:1, v/v) as
eluent to give the corresponding product 3 (CAS no: 875228-
32-3) (ref. 9) as a light-yellow oil (144.5 mg, 90%). 1H NMR (500
MHz, CDCl3): δ = 4.07–3.98 (m, 4 H), 2.89–2.83 (m, 1 H), 2.63–
2.49 (m, 4 H), 1.55–1.48 (m, 3 H), 1.33–1.17 (m, 15 H), 0.87–
0.80 (m, 9 H). 13C NMR (125 MHz, CDCl3): δ = 61.5 (d, J = 7.4 Hz),
60.8 (d, J = 7.8 Hz), 58.3 (d, J = 134.0 Hz), 51.7 (d, J = 3.5 Hz), 31.7
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5.4 Hz), 16.5 (d, J = 5.9 Hz), 14.1 (s), 13.9 (s). 31P NMR (202 MHz,
CDCl3): δ = 29.7. HRMS: m/z [M+Na]+ calcd for C16H36NNaO3P+:
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