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Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Three-Component Alkene Difunctionalization by Direct and Selective Activation of Aliphatic C?H Bonds

Catalytic alkene difunctionalization is a powerful strategy for the rapid assembly of complex molecules and has wide range of applications in synthetic chemistry. Despite significant progress, a compelling challenge that still needs to be solved is the installation of highly functionalized C(sp3)-hybridized centers without requiring pre-activated substrates. We herein report that inexpensive and easy-to-synthesize decatungstate photo-HAT, in combination with nickel catalysis, provides a versatile platform for three-component alkene difunctionalization through direct and selective activation of aliphatic C?H bonds. Compared with previous studies, the significant advantages of this strategy are that the most abundant hydrocarbons are used as feedstocks, and various highly functionalized tertiary, secondary, and primary C(sp3)-hybrid centers can be easily installed. The practicability of this strategy is demonstrated in the selective late-stage functionalization of natural products and the concise synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant molecules including Piragliatin.

General C(sp2)-C(sp3) Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions Enabled by Overcharge Protection of Homogeneous Electrocatalysts

Cross-electrophile coupling (XEC) of alkyl and aryl halides promoted by electrochemistry represents an attractive alternative to conventional methods that require stoichiometric quantities of high-energy reductants. Most importantly, electroreduction can readily exceed the reducing potentials of chemical reductants to activate catalysts with improved reactivities and selectivities over conventional systems. This work details the mechanistically-driven development of an electrochemical methodology for XEC that utilizes redox-active shuttles developed by the energy-storage community to protect reactive coupling catalysts from overreduction. The resulting electrocatalytic system is practical, scalable, and broadly applicable to the reductive coupling of a wide range of aryl, heteroaryl, or vinyl bromides with primary or secondary alkyl bromides. The impact of overcharge protection as a strategy for electrosynthetic methodologies is underscored by the dramatic differences in yields from coupling reactions with added redox shuttles (generally >80%) and those without (generally 20%). In addition to excellent yields for a wide range of substrates, reactions protected from overreduction can be performed at high currents and on multigram scales.

Nickel-catalyzed C-N bond activation: Activated primary amines as alkylating reagents in reductive cross-coupling

Nickel-catalyzed reductive cross coupling of activated primary amines with aryl halides under mild reaction conditions has been achieved for the first time. Due to the avoidance of stoichiometric organometallic reagents and external bases, the scope regarding both coupling partners is broad. Thus, a wide range of substrates, natural products and drugs with diverse functional groups are tolerated. Moreover, experimental mechanistic investigations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations in combination with wavefunction analysis have been performed to understand the catalytic cycle in more detail.

Iron-catalyzed cross coupling of aryl chlorides with alkyl Grignard reagents: Synthetic scope and FeII/FeIV mechanism supported by x-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations

A combination of iron(III) fluoride and 1,3-bis(2,6-diiso-propylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene (SIPr) catalyzes the high-yielding cross coupling of an electron-rich aryl chloride with an alkyl Grignard reagent, which cannot be attained using other iron catalysts. A variety of alkoxy-or amino-substituted aryl chlorides can be cross-coupled with various alkyl Grignard reagents regardless of the presence or absence of β-hydrogens in the alkyl group. A radical probe experiment using 1-(but-3-enyl)-2-chlorobenzene does not afford the corresponding cyclization product, therefore excluding the intermediacy of radical species. Solution-phase X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) analysis, with the help of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, indicates the formation of a high-spin (S = 2) heteroleptic difluorido organoferrate(II), [MgX][FeIIF2(SIPr)-(Me/alkyl)], in the reaction mixture. DFT calculations also support a feasible reaction pathway, including the formation of a difluorido organoferrate(II) intermediate which undergoes a novel Lewis acid-assisted oxidative addition to form a neutral organoiron(IV) intermediate, which leads to an FeII/FeIV cata-lytic cycle, where the fluorido ligand and the magnesium ion play key roles.

Purposeful regioselectivity control of the Birch reductive alkylation of biphenyl-4-carbonitrile

Birch's reductive alkylation of biphenyl-4-carbonitrile (1) provides alkylated 1,4-dihydroderivatives of various structural types: 4-alkyl-4-phenylcyclohexa-2,5-dienone, 1,4-dialkyl-4-phenylcyclohexa-2,5-dienecarbonitrile (with the same or different alkyl fragments), and 4-(1-alkylcyclohexa-2,5-dienyl)benzonitrile. Each of these products become dominant depending on the nature of long-living anionic form generated from 1, namely, the stable product of two-electrons reduction – dianion (12?); 1-alkyl-4-cyano-1-phenylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-4-yl anion (1-Alk1–), originated due to the alkylation of dianion 12? at the position 1 of biphenyl moiety; or 1-(4-cyanophenyl)cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-yl anion (1-H4’–), being the product of dianion 12? protonation at position 4′ by protonating reagent (MeOH or NH4Cl). The orientation of alkyl fragment incorporation into biphenyl-4-carbonitrile scaffold is in agreement with calculated electronic structure of the anionic species under investigation. The dominating type of their reactivity towards alkyl halides proved to be nucleophilic (SN2 mechanism).

Nickel-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Alkylation of Aryl Iodides with Anhydrides

We present the anhydride-based decarboxylative alkylation of aryl iodides catalyzed by nickel. This method of decarboxylative coupling works with a broad scope of aliphatic carboxylic anhydrides and tolerates synthetically useful aromatic substituents. Assisted by a redox system of pyridine N-oxide and zinc additives, the current reaction occurs under mild conditions and without the assistance of photocatalyst. Notably, this method features high chemoselectivity toward alkyl migration with mixed aliphatic/aromatic anhydrides. Thus, it provides a powerful synthetic tool to modify high-valued aliphatic carboxylic acids by converting them into mixed anhydrides using readily available aryl carboxylic acids such as p-toluic acid. We propose a catalytic cycle that involves the key steps of free radical-based decarboxylation and subsequent alkyl transfer to nickel that precedes an oxidatively induced C-C reductive elimination from Ni(III).

Iron fluoride/N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed cross coupling between deactivated aryl chlorides and alkyl grignard reagents with or without β-hydrogens

High-yielding cross-coupling reactions of various combinations of aryl chlorides and alkyl Grignard reagents have been developed by using an iron(III) fluoride/1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene (SIPr) catalyst composite. The iron(III) fluoride/SIPr-catalyzed aryl-alkyl coupling demonstrates unprecedented scope for both aryl chlorides and alkyl Grignard reagents, thus enabling the first efficient coupling of electron-rich (deactivated) aryl chlorides with alkyl Grignard reagents without β-hydrogens. The present reaction is also effective for diverse alkyl Grignard reagents such as (trimethylsilyl)methyl, primary, and secondary alkyl Grignard reagents.

Iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of alkyl grignards with aryl sulfamates and tosylates

The iron-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl sulfamates and tosylates has been achieved with primary and secondary alkyl Grignards. This study of iron-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions also examines the isomerization and β-hydride elimination problems that are associated with the use of isopropyl nucleophiles. While a variety of iron sources were competent in the reaction, the use of FeF3·3H2O was critical to minimize nucleophile isomerization.

Preparation, structure, and reactivity of nonstabilized organoiron compounds. Implications for iron-catalyzed cross coupling reactions

A series of unprecedented organoiron complexes of the formal oxidation states -2, 0, +1, +2, and +3 is presented, which are largely devoid of stabilizing ligands and, in part, also electronically unsaturated (14-, 16-, 17- and 18-electron counts). Specifically, it is shown that nucleophiles unable to undergo β-hydride elimination, such as MeLi, PhLi, or PhMgBr, rapidly reduce Fe(3+) to Fe(2+) and then exhaustively alkylate the metal center. The resulting homoleptic organoferrate complexes [(Me4Fe)(MeLi)] [Li(OEt2)]2 (3) and [Ph4Fe][Li(Et 2O)2][Li(1,4-dioxane)] (5) could be characterized by X-ray crystal structure analysis. However, these exceptionally sensitive compounds turned out to be only moderately nucleophilic, transferring their organic ligands to activated electrophiles only, while being unable to alkylate (hetero)aryl halides unless they are very electron deficient. In striking contrast, Grignard reagents bearing alkyl residues amenable to β-hydride elimination reduce FeXn (n = 2, 3) to clusters of the formal composition [Fe(MgX)2]n. The behavior of these intermetallic species can be emulated by structurally well-defined lithium ferrate complexes of the type [Fe(C2H4) 4][Li(tmeda)]2 (8), [Fe(cod)2][Li(dme)] 2 (9), [CpFe(C2H4)2][Li(tmeda)] (7), [CpFe(cod)][Li(dme)] (11), or [Cp*Fe(C2H4) 2][Li(tmeda)] (14). Such electron-rich complexes, which are distinguished by short intermetallic Fe-Li bonds, were shown to react with aryl chlorides and allyl halides; the structures and reactivity patterns of the resulting organoiron compounds provide first insights into the elementary steps of low valent iron-catalyzed cross coupling reactions of aryl, alkyl, allyl, benzyl, and propargyl halides with organomagnesium reagents. However, the acquired data suggest that such C-C bond formations can occur, a priori, along different catalytic cycles shuttling between metal centers of the formal oxidation states Fe(+1)/Fe(+3), Fe(0)/Fe(+2), and Fe(-2)/Fe(0). Since these different manifolds are likely interconnected, an unambiguous decision as to which redox cycle dominates in solution remains difficult, even though iron complexes of the lowest accessible formal oxidation states promote the reactions most effectively.

Cross-coupling of alkyl halides with aryl Grignard reagents catalyzed by a low-valent iron complex

A striking reversal of the usual reactivity pattern of aryl Grignard reagents is observed for reactions in the presence of catalytic amounts of the "bare" ferrate complex [Li(tmeda)]2[Fe(C2H 4)4] (1). Highly reduced iron-magnesium clusters may play a decisive role in the exceptionally facile and chemoselective cross-coupling reaction with alkyl halides (see scheme).