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Light-enabled metal-free pinacol coupling by hydrazine
Qiu, Zihang,Pham, Hanh D. M.,Li, Jianbin,Li, Chen-Chen,Castillo-Pazos, Durbis J.,Khaliullin, Rustam Z.,Li, Chao-Jun
, p. 10937 - 10943 (2019/12/23)
Efficient carbon-carbon bond formation is of great importance in modern organic synthetic chemistry. The pinacol coupling discovered over a century ago is still one of the most efficient coupling reactions to build the C-C bond in one step. However, traditional pinacol coupling often requires over-stoichiometric amounts of active metals as reductants, causing long-lasting metal waste issues and sustainability concerns. A great scientific challenge is to design a metal-free approach to the pinacol coupling reaction. Herein, we describe a light-driven pinacol coupling protocol without use of any metals, but with N2H4, used as a clean non-metallic hydrogen-atom-transfer (HAT) reductant. In this transformation, only traceless non-toxic N2 and H2 gases were produced as by-products with a relatively broad aromatic ketone scope and good functional group tolerance. A combined experimental and computational investigation of the mechanism suggests that this novel pinacol coupling reaction proceeds via a HAT process between photo-excited ketone and N2H4, instead of the common single-electron-transfer (SET) process for metal reductants.
Retropinacol/cross-pinacol coupling reactions - A catalytic access to 1,2-unsymmetrical diols
Scheffler, Ulf,Stoesser, Reinhard,Mahrwald, Rainer
supporting information, p. 2648 - 2652,5 (2012/12/12)
A new concept to access unsymmetrical 1,2-diols with high yields is reported. This new methodology is based on a retropinacol/cross-pinacol coupling process. This transformation is characterized by its operational simplicity and very mild reaction condi tions.