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Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Catalytic Amination of Phenols with Amines

Given the wide prevalence and ready availability of both phenols and amines, aniline synthesis through direct coupling between these starting materials would be extremely attractive. Herein, we describe a rhodium-catalyzed amination of phenols, which provides concise access to diverse anilines, with water as the sole byproduct. The arenophilic rhodium catalyst facilitates the inherently difficult keto–enol tautomerization of phenols by means of π-coordination, allowing for the subsequent dehydrative condensation with amines. We demonstrate the generality of this redox-neutral catalysis by carrying out reactions of a large array of phenols with various electronic properties and a wide variety of primary and secondary amines. Several examples of late-stage functionalization of structurally complex bioactive molecules, including pharmaceuticals, further illustrate the potential broad utility of the method.

Catalyst-free photoinduced selective oxidative C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond cleavage in arylamines

Due to the directional nature of sp3-hybridized orbitals and the absence of π-orbitals, the oxidative cleavage of the kinetically and thermodynamically stable C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond is extremely difficult and remains scarcely explored. In this work, under the double argument of quantum mechanics (QM) computations and meticulous experiments on our well-designed C-C single bond cleavage mechanism, we discovered a means of photoinduced selective oxidative C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond cleavage in arylamines, easily achieved by simple visible light irradiation using O2as a benign oxidant under very mild conditions. The utility of our methodology was demonstrated by the C(sp3)-C(sp3) bond cleavage in morpholine/piperazine arylamines with excellent functional group tolerance. Importantly, our methodology is noteworthy, not only in that it does not require any catalysts, but also in that it provides valuable possibilities for the scalable functionalization of clinical drugs and natural products.

Buchwald-Hartwig Amination of (Hetero)Aryl Tosylates Using a Well-Defined N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Palladium(II) Precatalyst

The cross-coupling of aryl tosylates with amines and anilines was achieved by using for the first time a Pd-NHC system based on the popular Pd-PEPPSI precatalyst platform in which the anchoring imidazol-2-ylidene ligand IPr (NMe2)2 incorporates two dimethylamino groups as backbone substituents enhancing both the electronic and steric properties of the carbene. The system optimization and its application scope are disclosed.

Copper promoted aryl/saturated heterocyclic C-N bond cross-coupling with arylboronic acid and arylstannane

Arylboronic acid/cupric acetate arylation of N-H containing saturated heterocycles has been explored and found to give good yields of the cross- coupled products. Phenyltrimethylstannane is also found to arylate N-H containing heterocycles.