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Selective C-alkylation Between Alcohols Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Molybdenum
Liu, Jiahao,Li, Weikang,Li, Yinwu,Liu, Yan,Ke, Zhuofeng
supporting information, p. 3124 - 3128 (2021/09/20)
The first implementation of a molybdenum complex with an easily accessible bis-N-heterocyclic carbene ligand to catalyze β-alkylation of secondary alcohols via borrowing-hydrogen (BH) strategy using alcohols as alkylating agents is reported. Remarkably high activity, excellent selectivity, and broad substrate scope compatibility with advantages of catalyst usage low to 0.5 mol%, a catalytic amount of NaOH as the base, and H2O as the by-product are demonstrated in this green and step-economical protocol. Mechanistic studies indicate a plausible outer-sphere mechanism in which the alcohol dehydrogenation is the rate-determining step.
Nickel-catalyzed guerbet type reaction: C-alkylation of secondary alcohols via double (de)hydrogenation
Babu, Reshma,Subaramanian, Murugan,Midya, Siba P.,Balaraman, Ekambaram
supporting information, p. 3320 - 3325 (2021/05/31)
Acceptorless double dehydrogenative cross-coupling of secondary and primary alcohols under nickel catalysis is reported. This Guerbet type reaction provides an atom- and a step-economical method for the C-alkylation of secondary alcohols under mild, benign conditions. A broad range of substrates including aromatic, cyclic, acyclic, and aliphatic alcohols was well tolerated. Interestingly, the C-alkylation of cholesterol derivatives and the double C-alkylation of cyclopentanol with various alcohols were also demonstrated.
Switchable β-alkylation of secondary alcohols with primary alcohols by a well-defined cobalt catalyst
Ding, Keying,Pandey, Bedraj,Xu, Shi
supporting information, p. 1207 - 1212 (2021/05/29)
β-alkylation of secondary alcohols with primary alcohols to selectively generate alcohols by a well-defined Co catalyst is presented. Remarkably, a low catalyst loading of 0.7 mol % can be employed for the reaction. More significantly, this study represents the first Co-catalyzed switchable alcohol/ketone synthesis by simply manipulating the reaction parameters. In addition, the transformation is environmentally friendly, with water as the only byproduct.
