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N-Ammonium Ylide Mediators for Electrochemical C-H Oxidation
Saito, Masato,Kawamata, Yu,Meanwell, Michael,Navratil, Rafael,Chiodi, Debora,Carlson, Ethan,Hu, Pengfei,Chen, Longrui,Udyavara, Sagar,Kingston, Cian,Tanwar, Mayank,Tyagi, Sameer,McKillican, Bruce P.,Gichinga, Moses G.,Schmidt, Michael A.,Eastgate, Martin D.,Lamberto, Massimiliano,He, Chi,Tang, Tianhua,Malapit, Christian A.,Sigman, Matthew S.,Minteer, Shelley D.,Neurock, Matthew,Baran, Phil S.
supporting information, p. 7859 - 7867 (2021/05/26)
The site-specific oxidation of strong C(sp3)-H bonds is of uncontested utility in organic synthesis. From simplifying access to metabolites and late-stage diversification of lead compounds to truncating retrosynthetic plans, there is a growing need for new reagents and methods for achieving such a transformation in both academic and industrial circles. One main drawback of current chemical reagents is the lack of diversity with regard to structure and reactivity that prevents a combinatorial approach for rapid screening to be employed. In that regard, directed evolution still holds the greatest promise for achieving complex C-H oxidations in a variety of complex settings. Herein we present a rationally designed platform that provides a step toward this challenge using N-ammonium ylides as electrochemically driven oxidants for site-specific, chemoselective C(sp3)-H oxidation. By taking a first-principles approach guided by computation, these new mediators were identified and rapidly expanded into a library using ubiquitous building blocks and trivial synthesis techniques. The ylide-based approach to C-H oxidation exhibits tunable selectivity that is often exclusive to this class of oxidants and can be applied to real-world problems in the agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
Copper-Catalyzed Alkoxycarbonylation of Alkanes with Alcohols
Li, Yahui,Wang, Changsheng,Zhu, Fengxiang,Wang, Zechao,Dixneuf, Pierre H.,Wu, Xiao-Feng
, p. 1341 - 1345 (2017/04/14)
Esters are important chemicals widely used in various areas, and alkoxycarbonylation represents one of the most powerful tools for their synthesis. In this communication, a new copper-catalyzed carbonylative procedure for the synthesis of aliphatic esters from cycloalkanes and alcohols was developed. Through direct activation of the C sp3 ?H bond of alkanes and with alcohols as the nucleophiles, the desired esters were prepared in moderate-to-good yields. Paraformaldehyde could also be applied for in situ alcohol generation by radical trapping, and moderate yields of the corresponding esters could be produced. Notably, this is the first report on copper-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylation of alkanes.
Copper-catalyzed highly efficient ester formation from carboxylic acids/esters and formates
Liu, Jun,Shao, Changdong,Zhang, Yanghui,Shi, Guangfa,Pan, Shulei
supporting information, p. 2637 - 2640 (2014/05/06)
A highly efficient copper-catalyzed protocol for the synthesis of esters has been developed from formates. This protocol is applicable to reactions with either esters or acids as the substrates, and shows broad substrate scopes and high yields. This journal is the Partner Organisations 2014.
