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Copper-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Cross-Coupling of Racemic Alkyl Bromides with Azole C(sp2)?H Bonds
Chang, Xiao-Yong,Chen, Ji-Jun,Gu, Qiang-Shuai,Jiang, Sheng-Peng,Li, Zhong-Liang,Liu, Lin,Liu, Xiao-Dong,Liu, Xin-Yuan,Su, Xiao-Long,Wang, Fu-Li,Yang, Chang-Jiang,Ye, Liu
, p. 380 - 384 (2020/10/30)
The development of enantioconvergent cross-coupling of racemic alkyl halides directly with heteroarene C(sp2)?H bonds has been impeded by the use of a base at elevated temperature that leads to racemization. We herein report a copper(I)/cinchona-alkaloid-derived N,N,P-ligand catalytic system that enables oxidative addition with racemic alkyl bromides under mild conditions. Thus, coupling with azole C(sp2)?H bonds has been achieved in high enantioselectivity, affording a number of potentially useful α-chiral alkylated azoles, such as 1,3,4-oxadiazoles, oxazoles, and benzo[d]oxazoles as well as 1,3,4-triazoles, for drug discovery. Mechanistic experiments indicated facile deprotonation of an azole C(sp2)?H bond and the involvement of alkyl radical species under the reaction conditions.
