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Flow Metal-Free Ar-C Bond Formation via Photogenerated Phenyl Cations

A convenient photochemical flow protocol for the formation of aryl-carbon bonds via photogenerated phenyl cations has been developed. A wide range of phenylated products, including biaryls, allylarenes, 2-arylacetals and benzyl γ-lactones, was smoothly synthesized in satisfactory yields under metal-free conditions. The adoption of a flow reactor often allowed us to adopt higher concentrations of substrates and shorter irradiation times compared to those usually employed in batch systems.

Solarylations via 4-aminophenyl cations

(Chemical Equation Presented) The application of the photo-SN1 reaction on some 4-chloroanilines was explored under solar irradiation in view of obtaining a convenient metal-free arylation method. Several reactions previously carried out by UV irradiation, as well as some new ones, where either a new trap (α-methylstyrene) or a new halide (N,N-dimethyl-4- fluoroaniline) were adopted, were studied under these conditions and found to occur conveniently. Furthermore, at least in some cases the halide starting concentration could be raised up to 0.2 M, the excess trapping agent reduced from 20:1 to 2.5:1, and the solvent replaced by more environmentally friendly (co)solvents including water. Under these improved conditions, the photoarylation was carried out in a gram scale by merely exposing the solution to solar irradiation. This process has a low impact on the environment and can be considered a serious competitor of metal-catalyzed arylations. 2010 American Chemical Society.

Generation and reactivity of the 4-aminophenyl cation by photolysis of 4-chloroaniline

4-Chloroaniline and its N,N-dimethyl derivative are photostable in cyclohexane but undergo efficient photoheterolysis in polar media via the triplet state and give the corresponding triplet phenyl cations. CASSCF and UB3LYP calculations show that the 4-aminophenyl triplet cation has a planar geometry and is stabilized by > 10 kcal mol-1 with respect to the slightly bent singlet. The triplet has a mixed carbene-diradical character at the divalent carbon. This species either adds to the starting substrate forming 5-chloro-2,4′-diaminodiphenyls (via an intermediate cyclohexadienyl cation) or is reduced to the aniline (via the aniline radical cation) in a ratio depending on the hydrogen-donating properties of the solvent. Transients attributable to the triplet aminophenyl cation as well as to the ensuing intermediates are detected. Chemical evidence for the generation of the phenyl cation is given by trapping via electrophilic substitution with benzene, mesitylene, and hexamethylbenzene (in the last case the main product is a 6-aryl-3-methylene-1,4-cyclohexadiene). Relative rates of electrophilic attack to benzene and to some alkenes and five-membered heterocycles are measured and span over a factor of 15 or 30 for the two cations. The triplet cation formed under these conditions is trapped by iodide more efficiently than by the best π nucleophiles, However, in contrast to the singlet cation, it does not form ethers with alcohols, by which it is rather reduced.