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Rhodium-Catalyzed Aerobic Decomposition of 1,3-Diaryl-2-diazo-1,3-diketones: Mechanistic Investigation and Application to the Synthesis of Benzils
Zhu, Jia-Liang,Tsai, Yi-Ting
, p. 813 - 828 (2020/12/22)
The conversion of 1,3-diaryl-2-diazo-1,3-diketones to 1,2-daryl-1,2-diketones (benzils) is reported based on a rhodium(II)-catalyzed aerobic decomposition process. The reaction occurs at ambient temperatures and can be catalyzed by a few dirhodium carboxylates (5 mol %) under a balloon pressure of oxygen. Moreover, an oxygen atom from the O2 reagent is shown to be incorporated into the product, and this is accompanied by the extrusion of a carbonyl unit from the starting materials. Mechanistically, it is proposed that the decomposition may proceed via the interaction of a ketene intermediate resulting from a Wolff rearrangement of the carbenoid, with a rhodium peroxide or peroxy radical species generated upon the activation of molecular oxygen. The proposed mechanism has been supported by the results from a set of controlled experiments. By using this newly developed strategy, a large array of benzil derivatives as well as 9,10-phenanthrenequinone were synthesized from the corresponding diazo substrates in varying yields. On the other hand, the method did not allow the generation of benzocyclobutene-1,2-dione from 2-diazo-1,3-indandione because of the difficulty of inducing the initial rearrangement.
Rhodium-catalyzed cyclization of acceptor-substituted biphenyl α-diazoketones: A study of the substitution effect on chemoselectivity
Chen, Kuo-Hsin,Chiang, Yi-Jung,Zhu, Jia-Liang
, p. 6975 - 6986 (2018/10/02)
A range of biphenyl α-diazoketones containing various electron-withdrawing groups (EWG = COCH3, CN, CO2Et, COPh, SO2CH3, SO2Ph) on diazo carbon has been investigated for rhodium(ii)-catalyzed intramol
Selectfluor-Mediated Simultaneous Cleavage of C-O and C-C Bonds in α,β-Epoxy Ketones under Transition-Metal-Free Conditions: A Route to 1,2-Diketones
Wang, Heng,Ren, Shaobo,Zhang, Jian,Zhang, Wei,Liu, Yunkui
, p. 6856 - 6863 (2015/10/06)
Selectfluor-mediated simultaneous cleavage of C-O and C-C bonds in α,β-epoxy ketones has been successfully achieved under transition-metal-free conditions. The reaction gives 1,2-diketone compounds in moderate to good yields involving a ring-opening/benzoyl rearrangement/C-C bond cleavage sequence under oxidative conditions.
