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Iron-Catalyzed Direct Julia-Type Olefination of Alcohols
Landge, Vinod G.,Babu, Reshma,Yadav, Vinita,Subaramanian, Murugan,Gupta, Virendrakumar,Balaraman, Ekambaram
, p. 9876 - 9886 (2020)
Herein, we report an iron-catalyzed, convenient, and expedient strategy for the synthesis of styrene and naphthalene derivatives with the liberation of dihydrogen. The use of a catalyst derived from an earth-abundant metal provides a sustainable strategy to olefins. This method exhibits wide substrate scope (primary and secondary alcohols) functional group tolerance (amino, nitro, halo, alkoxy, thiomethoxy, and S- A nd N-heterocyclic compounds) that can be scaled up. The unprecedented synthesis of 1-methyl naphthalenes proceeds via tandem methenylation/double dehydrogenation. Mechanistic study shows that the cleavage of the C-H bond of alcohol is the rate-determining step.
