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Iron-Catalyzed Ortho C-H Methylation of Aromatics Bearing a Simple Carbonyl Group with Methylaluminum and Tridentate Phosphine Ligand
Shang, Rui,Ilies, Laurean,Nakamura, Eiichi
supporting information, p. 10132 - 10135 (2016/08/31)
Iron-catalyzed C-H functionalization of aromatics has attracted widespread attention from chemists in recent years, while the requirement of an elaborate directing group on the substrate has so far hampered the use of simple aromatic carbonyl compounds such as benzoic acid and ketones, much reducing its synthetic utility. We describe here a combination of a mildly reactive methylaluminum reagent and a new tridentate phosphine ligand for metal catalysis, 4-(bis(2-(diphenylphosphanyl)phenyl)phosphanyl)-N,N-dimethylaniline (Me2N-TP), that allows us to convert an ortho C-H bond to a C-CH3 bond in aromatics and heteroaromatics bearing simple carbonyl groups under mild oxidative conditions. The reaction is powerful enough to methylate all four ortho C-H bonds in benzophenone. The reaction tolerates a variety of functional groups, such as boronic ester, halide, sulfide, heterocycles, and enolizable ketones.
Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Arenes Catalysed by Bromopentacarbonylrhenium(I)
Kusama, Hiroyuki,Narasaka, Koichi
, p. 2379 - 2384 (2007/10/03)
The intermolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation of aromatic compounds (such as toluene, m-xylene, and anisole) with various acid chlorides proceeds by using a catalytic amount of bromopentacarbonylrhenium(I) to afford aryl ketones.Intramolecular acylation is also catalyzed by the above-mentioned catalyst to give indanone and tetralone derivatives.
