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One-Pot Photomediated Giese Reaction/Friedel-Crafts Hydroxyalkylation/Oxidative Aromatization to Access Naphthalene Derivatives from Toluenes and Enones
Liu, Haiwang,Ma, Lishuang,Zhou, Rong,Chen, Xuebo,Fang, Weihai,Wu, Jie
, p. 6224 - 6229 (2018)
Value-added chemicals, γ-aryl ketones and naphthalenes, were conveniently synthesized from readily available toluenes and enones through the synergistic combination of photoredox and Lewis acid catalysis. The direct synthesis of γ-aryl ketones represents a rare example of Giese reactions between benzylic C(sp3)-H and enones that avoids the use of prefunctionalized metallic nucleophiles. Naphthalene derivatives were accessed through a one-pot Giese reaction/Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation/oxidative aromatization sequential transformation.
