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Switchable Chemoselectivity of Reactive Intermediates Formation and Their Direct Use in A Flow Microreactor
Ashikari, Yosuke,Tamaki, Takashi,Kawaguchi, Tomoko,Furusawa, Mai,Yonekura, Yuya,Ishikawa, Susumu,Takahashi, Yusuke,Aizawa, Yoko,Nagaki, Aiichiro
supporting information, p. 16107 - 16111 (2021/10/12)
A chemoselectivity switchable microflow reaction was developed to generate reactive and unstable intermediates. The switchable chemoselectivity of this reaction enables a selection for one of two different intermediates, an aryllithium or a benzyl lithium, at will from the same starting material. Starting from bromo-substituted styrenes, the aryllithium intermediates were converted to the substituted styrenes, whereas the benzyl lithium intermediates were engaged in an anionic polymerization. These chemoselectivity-switchable reactions can be integrated to produce polymers that cannot be formed during typical polymerization reactions.
Transient imine as a directing group for the metal-free o-C-H borylation of benzaldehydes
Rej, Supriya,Chatani, Naoto
, p. 2920 - 2929 (2021/03/01)
Organoboron reagents are important synthetic intermediates and have wide applications in synthetic organic chemistry. The selective borylation strategies that are currently in use largely rely on the use of transition-metal catalysts. Hence, identifying much milder conditions for transition-metal-free borylation would be highly desirable. We herein present a unified strategy for the selective C-H borylation of electron-deficient benzaldehyde derivatives using a simple metal-free approach, utilizing an imine transient directing group. The strategy covers a wide spectrum of reactions and (i) even highly sterically hindered C-H bonds can be borylated smoothly, (ii) despite the presence of other potential directing groups, the reaction selectively occurs at the o-C-H bond of the benzaldehyde moiety, and (iii) natural products appended to benzaldehyde derivatives can also give the appropriate borylated products. Moreover, the efficacy of the protocol was confirmed by the fact that the reaction proceeds even in the presence of a series of external impurities.
