88-05-1Relevant articles and documents
Solvent Effects in the Electrophilic Amination of Mesitylene with the System NaN3-AlCl3-HCl
Borodkin,Popov,Pokrovskii,Shubin
, p. 747 - 749 (2003)
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A Metal-Free Direct Arene C?H Amination
Wang, Tao,Hoffmann, Marvin,Dreuw, Andreas,Hasagi?, Edina,Hu, Chao,Stein, Philipp M.,Witzel, Sina,Shi, Hongwei,Yang, Yangyang,Rudolph, Matthias,Stuck, Fabian,Rominger, Frank,Kerscher, Marion,Comba, Peter,Hashmi, A. Stephen K.
supporting information, p. 2783 - 2795 (2021/04/05)
The synthesis of aryl amines via the formation of a C?N bond is an essential tool for the preparation of functional materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients and bioactive products. Usually, this chemical connection is only possible by transition metal-catalyzed reactions, photochemistry or electrochemistry. Here, we report a metal-free arene C?H amination using hydroxylamine derivatives under benign conditions. A charge transfer interaction between the aminating reagents TsONHR and the arene substrates enables the chemoselective amination of the arene, even in the presence of various functional groups. Oxygen was crucial for an effective conversion and its accelerating role for the electron transfer step was proven experimentally. In addition, this was rationalized by a theoretical study which indicated the involvement of a dioxygen-bridged complex with a “Sandwich-like” arrangement of the aromatic starting materials and the aminating agents at the dioxygen molecule. (Figure presented.).
Visible light enables catalytic formation of weak chemical bonds with molecular hydrogen
Park, Yoonsu,Kim, Sangmin,Tian, Lei,Zhong, Hongyu,Scholes, Gregory D.,Chirik, Paul J.
supporting information, p. 969 - 976 (2021/07/25)
The synthesis of weak chemical bonds at or near thermodynamic potential is a fundamental challenge in chemistry, with applications ranging from catalysis to biology to energy science. Proton-coupled electron transfer using molecular hydrogen is an attractive strategy for synthesizing weak element–hydrogen bonds, but the intrinsic thermodynamics presents a challenge for reactivity. Here we describe the direct photocatalytic synthesis of extremely weak element–hydrogen bonds of metal amido and metal imido complexes, as well as organic compounds with bond dissociation free energies as low as 31 kcal mol?1. Key to this approach is the bifunctional behaviour of the chromophoric iridium hydride photocatalyst. Activation of molecular hydrogen occurs in the ground state and the resulting iridium hydride harvests visible light to enable spontaneous formation of weak chemical bonds near thermodynamic potential with no by-products. Photophysical and mechanistic studies corroborate radical-based reaction pathways and highlight the uniqueness of this photodriven approach in promoting new catalytic chemistry. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Minimization of Back-Electron Transfer Enables the Elusive sp3 C?H Functionalization of Secondary Anilines
Zhao, Huaibo,Leonori, Daniele
supporting information, p. 7669 - 7674 (2021/03/08)
Anilines are some of the most used class of substrates for application in photoinduced electron transfer. N,N-Dialkyl-derivatives enable radical generation α to the N-atom by oxidation followed by deprotonation. This approach is however elusive to monosubstituted anilines owing to fast back-electron transfer (BET). Here we demonstrate that BET can be minimised by using photoredox catalysis in the presence of an exogenous alkylamine. This approach synergistically aids aniline SET oxidation and then accelerates the following deprotonation. In this way, the generation of α-anilinoalkyl radicals is now possible and these species can be used in a general sense to achieve divergent sp3 C?H functionalization.