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Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Visible-Light-Driven Oxidative Mono- and Dibromination of Benzylic sp 3 C-H Bonds with Potassium Bromide/Oxone at Room Temperature

Benzylic sp 3 C-H bonds have been successfully brominated with potassium bromide by using Oxone as an oxidant in water/dichloromethane under visible light at room temperature. Toluene, ethylbenzene and other alkylbenzenes bearing an electron-withdrawing group, such as Br, Cl, COMe, CO 2 Et, CO 2 H, CN or NO 2, provide the corresponding benzylic monobromides in good to excellent yields in this reaction. Dibromides can also be produced in the presence of excess potassium bromide in a prolonged reaction time. Control of the illuminance of visible light (~500 lux) is crucial to achieving both high yield and high selectivity in these brominations. Mono- and difluorides can be conveniently prepared through nucleophilic substitutions of the benzylic bromides with potassium fluoride.

E-Stilbene derivatives synthesized by stereoselective reductive coupling of benzylic gem-dibromide promoted by Cu/polyamine

Stereoselective reductive coupling reaction of benzylic gem-dibromide promoted by Cu/polyamine produces E-stilbene derivatives with high yield under mild conditions. It provides a short pathway to synthesize symmetrical and asymmetrical E-stilbene derivatives using cheap reagents and alkenyl-free starting material together with easy workup.

Method for preparing trans-diphenylethylene compound

The invention relates to a preparation method of organic compounds and provides a method for preparing a trans-diphenylethylene compound. The method comprises adding a gem-dibromomethyl aromatic hydrocarbon compound, copper and polyamine into a reactor in the presence of a solvent, carrying out deoxidizing treatment, adding an oxygen-free water-free solvent into the reactor, carrying out a coupling reaction process to obtain C-C- double bonds, and carrying out separation and purification to obtain the trans-diphenylethylene compound. The method has mild synthesis conditions and has good reaction compatibility to different functional groups. The gem-dibromomethyl aromatic hydrocarbon compound as a raw material is easy to synthesize, may have different substituent groups and has a variable structure. The product obtained by coupling a raw material can be simply treated and has high purity. The asymmetric trans-diphenylethylene compound can be prepared from two different raw materials.

A scalable procedure for light-induced benzylic brominations in continuous flow

A continuous-flow protocol for the bromination of benzylic compounds with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) is presented. The radical reactions were activated with a readily available household compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) using a simple flow reactor design based on transparent fluorinated ethylene polymer (FEP) tubing. All of the reactions were carried out using acetonitrile as the solvent, thus avoiding hazardous chlorinated solvents such as CCl4. For each substrate, only 1.05 equiv of NBS was necessary to fully transform the benzylic starting material into the corresponding bromide. The general character of the procedure was demonstrated by brominating a diverse set of 19 substrates containing different functional groups. Good to excellent isolated yields were obtained in all cases. The novel flow protocol can be readily scaled to multigram quantities by operating the reactor for longer time periods (throughput 30 mmol h-1), which is not easily possible in batch photochemical reactors. The bromination protocol can also be performed with equal efficiency in a larger flow reactor utilizing a more powerful lamp. For the bromination of phenylacetone as a model, a productivity of 180 mmol h -1 for the desired bromide was achieved.

Environmentally benign electrophilic and radical bromination 'on water': H2O2-HBr system versus N-bromosuccinimide

A H2O2-HBr system and N-bromosuccinimide in an aqueous medium were used as a 'green' approach to electrophilic and radical bromination. Several activated and less activated aromatic molecules, phenylsubstituted ketones and styrene were efficiently brominated 'on water' using both systems at ambient temperature and without an added metal or acid catalyst, whereas various non-activated toluenes were functionalized at the benzyl position in the presence of visible light as a radical activator. A comparison of reactivity and selectivity of both brominating systems reveals the H2O2-HBr system to be more reactive than NBS for benzyl bromination and for the bromination of ketones, while for electrophilic aromatic substitution of methoxy-substituted tetralone it was higher for NBS. Also, higher yields of brominated aromatics were observed when using H2O2-HBr 'on water'. Bromination of styrene reveals that not just the structure of the brominating reagent but the reaction conditions: amount of water, organic solvent, stirring rate and interface structure, play a key role in defining the outcome of bromination (dibromination vs bromohydroxylation). In addition, mild reaction conditions, a straightforward isolation procedure, inexpensive reagents and a lower environment impact make aqueous brominating methods a possible alternative to other reported brominating protocols.

A versatile method for the hydrolysis of gem-dibromomethylarenes bearing carboxylate or boronate group into aldehydes

Hydrolysis of gem-dibromomethylarenes bearing carboxylate or boronate group to corresponding aldehydes without affecting the ester group was successfully accomplished in high yields by subjecting them to refluxing pyridine. Both aromatic and heteroaromatic substrates gave the corresponding aldehydes in good yields. This method was efficiently adapted for the large scale synthesis of 2d and 2f.

Visible light induced 'on water' benzylic bromination with N-bromosuccinimide

Benzylic bromination of various 4-substituted toluenes (Me, tert-Bu, COOEt and COMe) was effectively conducted with NBS in pure water and with a 40 W incandescent light-bulb as an initiator of the radical chain process, while electron donating groups (OMe and NHAc) directed the reaction to electrophilic aromatic substitution.

Free radical bromination by the H2O2-HBr system on water

An aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen bromide illuminated by a 40 W incandescent light bulb serves as a source of bromine radicals. Various substituted toluenes (H, Me, tBu, Br, COOEt, COPh, NO2) were brominated at the benzyl position. This haloperoxidase-like system for benzylic bromination does not require the presence of metal ions or an organic solvent for efficient conversion of methyl-arenes to benzyl bromides.

Highly efficient and selective electrophilic and free radical catalytic bromination reactions of simple aromatic compounds in the presence of reusable zeolites

Reactions of mono-substituted aromatics of moderate activity with bromine in the presence of stoichiometric amounts of zeolite NaY proceed in high yield and with high selectivity to the corresponding para-bromo products. The zeolites can easily be regenerated by heating and reused. Similar para-selectivity can be achieved in the case of toluene by use of tert-butyl hypobromite as reagent, zeolite HX as catalyst, and a solvent comprising a mixture of tetrachloromethane and diethyl ether. Radical bromination of ethyl 4-methylbenzoate using bromine in the presence of light is catalysed by various zeolites and affords a high yield of ethyl 4-(bromomethyl)benzoate but with no great improvement in selectivity for monobromination.