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N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed Photoenolization/Diels–Alder Reaction of Acid Fluorides
Agrawal, Arush,G?tze, Jan P.,Golz, Paul,Hopkinson, Matthew N.,Mavroskoufis, Andreas,Rajes, Keerthana,Ru?, Vincent
, p. 3190 - 3194 (2020/01/24)
The combination of light activation and N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) organocatalysis has enabled the use of acid fluorides as substrates in a UVA-light-mediated photochemical transformation previously observed only with aromatic aldehydes and ketones. Stoichiometric studies and TD-DFT calculations support a mechanism involving the photoactivation of an ortho-toluoyl azolium intermediate, which exhibits “ketone-like” photochemical reactivity under UVA irradiation. Using this photo-NHC catalysis approach, a novel photoenolization/Diels–Alder (PEDA) process was developed that leads to diverse isochroman-1-one derivatives.