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Carbon Dioxide: A Reagent for the Simultaneous Protection of Nucleophilic Centres and the Activation of Alternative Locations to Electrophilic Attack. Prt III. A New Synthetic Method for the ortho-Substitution of N-Monoalkylanilines
Katritzky, Alan R.,Fan, Wei-Qiang,Akutagawa, Kunihiko
, p. 4027 - 4034 (2007/10/02)
N-Methyl- and N-ethyl-aniline are regiospecifically converted into a range of ortho-substituted derivatives, using carbon dioxide both for N-protection and as an intermediate carbanion stabilizing group, and t-butyllithium to lithiate the ortho-carbon atom.The rersulting lithium N-(ortho-substituted-phenyl)-N-methyl- and -N-ethylcarbamates undergo smooth acid-catalysed decarboxylation under mild conditions.No alpha-substituted products were detected.
