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Catalytic formation of ketones from unactivated esters through rhodium chelation-assisted C-O bond activation
Wang, Jingjing,Zuo, Sujing,Chen, Weiqiang,Zhang, Xinrui,Tan, Kaixin,Tian, Yun,Wang, Jianhui
, p. 8217 - 8231 (2013/09/24)
A new method for building aryl aryl ketones containing heterocyclic rings through chelation-assisted C-O bond activation catalyzed by a rhodium complex has been developed. In this reaction, methyl quinoline-8-carboxylate, methyl quinoxaline-5-carboxylate, and their derivatives were reacted with an excess amount of a substituted phenyl boronic acid in the presence of a rhodium(I) complex to give substituted phenyl(quinolin-8-yl)methanone, phenylquinoxalin-5- ylmethanone, and their derivatives in medium to high yields. The current method offers a highly favorable synthetic pathway to efficiently build related drugs with an 8-benzoylquinoline core structure. This method may prove especially valuable for medicinal chemists for the late-stage introduction of versatile ketone moieties into complex scaffolds for diversity-oriented synthetic strategies.