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• 604-44-4 4-chloronaphthalen-1-ol 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Aromatic Monochlorination Photosensitized by DDQ with Hydrogen Chloride under Visible-Light Irradiation

Photochlorination of aromatic substrates by hydrogen chloride with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-cyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ) occurs efficiently to produce the corresponding monochlorinated products selectively under visible-light irradiation. The yields for the chlorination of phenol were 70 % and 18 % for p- and o-chlorophenol, respectively, without formation of further chlorinated products. The photoinduced chlorination is initiated by electron transfer from Cl- to the triplet excited state of DDQ. The radical intermediates involved in the photochemical reaction have been detected by time-resolved transient absorption measurements.

A novel and efficient ceric ammonium nitrate catalyzed oxidative nuclear chlorination of activated aromatic compounds by acetyl chloride

A mild and efficient oxidative chlorination of activated aromatic compounds have been achieved in excellent yields using acetyl chloride in the presence of a catalytic amount of ceric ammonium nitrate at room temperature. However, chlorination failed to occur with deactivated aromatic rings.

An efficient monochlorination of electron-rich aromatic compounds catalysed by ammonium iodide

An efficient monochlorination of electron-rich aromatic compounds is developed, with which a series of regioselective monochlorinated products are obtained in good yields. In the reaction, ammonium iodide is used as catalyst and m-chloroperbenzoic acid is used as the terminal oxidant. Ammonium iodide is first oxidised to hypoiodous acid by m-chloroperbenzoic acid. The in situ generated active iodine species then reacts with the aromatic compound to form the active hypervalent iodine intermediate in two steps and this reacts with lithium chloride to afford eventually the chlorinated compounds.

Cobalt-Catalyzed Enantioselective C–H Arylation of Indoles

Atropoisomeric (hetero)biaryls are scaffolds with increasing importance in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Although it is the most obvious disconnection to construct such compounds, the direct enantioselective C–H arylation through the concomitant induction of the chiral information remains extremely challenging and uncommon. Herein, the unprecedented earth-abundant 3d-metal-catalyzed atroposelective direct arylation is reported, furnishing rare atropoisomeric C2-arylated indoles. Kinetic studies and DFT computation revealed an uncommon mechanism for this asymmetric transformation, with the oxidative addition being the rate- and enantio-determining step. Excellent stereoselectivities were reached (up to 96% ee), while using an unusual N-heterocyclic carbene ligand bearing an essential remote substituent. Attractive dispersion interactions along with positive C–H-π interactions exerted by the ligand were identified as key factors to guarantee the excellent enantioselection.

In Situ Formed IIII-Based Reagent for the Electrophilic ortho-Chlorination of Phenols and Phenol Ethers: The Use of PIFA-AlCl3 System

A new and in situ formed reagent generated by mixing PIFA {bis[(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene]} and AlCl3 was introduced in the organic synthesis for the direct and highly regioselective ortho-chlorination of phenols and phenol ethers. An efficient electrophilic chlorination for these electron-rich arenes as well as the scope of the reaction are described herein. An easy, practical, and open-flask reaction allowed us to introduce a chlorine atom, which is a highly important functional group in organic synthesis. The reproducibility of our method has been demonstrated on gram-scale by carrying out the reaction in 6-bromo-2-naphthol. This halogenation reaction also proceeds in excellent conditions by first preparing the iodine(III)-based chlorinating reagent. Our new chlorinating reagent can be stored at least for two weeks at 4 °C without losing its reactivity.

Iron(III)-Catalyzed Chlorination of Activated Arenes

A general and regioselective method for the chlorination of activated arenes has been developed. The transformation uses iron(III) triflimide as a powerful Lewis acid for the activation of N-chlorosuccinimide and the subsequent chlorination of a wide range of anisole, aniline, acetanilide, and phenol derivatives. The reaction was utilized for the late-stage mono- and dichlorination of a range of target compounds such as the natural product nitrofungin, the antibacterial agent chloroxylenol, and the herbicide chloroxynil. The facile nature of this transformation was demonstrated with the development of one-pot, tandem, iron-catalyzed dihalogenation processes allowing highly regioselective formation of different carbon-halogen bonds. The synthetic utility of the resulting dihalogenated aryl compounds as building blocks was established with the synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutically relevant targets.

N-Chloro-N-methoxybenzenesulfonamide: A Chlorinating Reagent

A structurally simple and reactive chlorinating reagent, N-chloro-N-methoxybenzenesulfonamide, was conveniently and economically prepared in high yield. 1,3-Diketones, β-keto esters, benzoyl trifluoroacetones, phenols, anisoles, heteroarenes, and aromatic amines were successfully chlorinated, and the products were obtained in good to high yields.

Selective Halogenation Using an Aniline Catalyst

Electrophilic halogenation is used to produce a wide variety of halogenated compounds. Previously reported methods have been developed mainly using a reagent-based approach. Unfortunately, a suitable "catalytic" process for halogen transfer reactions has yet to be achieved. In this study, arylamines have been found to generate an N-halo arylamine intermediate, which acts as a highly reactive but selective catalytic electrophilic halogen source. A wide variety of heteroaromatic and aromatic compounds are halogenated using commercially available N-halosuccinimides, for example, NCS, NBS, and NIS, with good to excellent yields and with very high selectivity. In the case of unactivated double bonds, allylic chlorides are obtained under chlorination conditions, whereas bromocyclization occurs for polyolefin. The reactivity of the catalyst can be tuned by varying the electronic properties of the arene moiety of catalyst.

Catalytic electrophilic halogenations and haloalkoxylations by non-heme iron halides

Synthetic non-heme iron halides promote sub-stoichiometric aliphatic halogenation reactions via a radical mechanism. Complementary to such activity, we have developed an electrophilic halogenation of arenes employing non-heme iron halides. A catalytic version of these reactions has also been developed using potassium halide as the source of halogen atom for arenes at room temperature. Efforts towards understanding the mechanism of these catalytic halogenation reactions led to the discovery of the haloalkoxylation of olefins by a non-heme iron complex. Implications of these findings with respect to natural transformations are also discussed.

An efficient chlorination of aromatic compounds using a catalytic amount of iodobenzene

An efficient method was developed for chlorination of aromatic compounds with electron-donating groups using iodobenzene as the catalyst and m-chloroperbenzoic acid as the terminal oxidant in the presence of 4-methylbenzenesulfonic acid in THF at room temperature for 24 h, and a series of the monochlorinated compounds was obtained in good yields. In this protocol, the catalyst iodobenzene was first oxidized into the hypervalent iodine intermediate, which then treated with lithium chloride and finally reacted with aromatic compounds to form the chlorinated compounds.