Carbene-catalysed reductive coupling of nitrobenzyl bromides and activated ketones or imines via single-electron-transfer process.
Carbene-catalysed reductive coupling of nitrobenzyl bromides and activated ketones or imines via single-electron-transfer process.
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通过单电子转移过程卡宾催化硝基苄基溴与活化酮或亚胺的还原偶联
DOI:
10.1038/ncomms12933
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发表时间:
2016-09-27
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Chi, Yonggui Robin
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作者:
Li, Bao-Sheng;Wang, Yuhuang;Proctor, Rupert S. J.;Zhang, Yuexia;Webster, Richard D.;Yang, Song;Song, Baoan;Chi, Yonggui Robin
Benzyl bromides and related molecules are among the most common substrates in organic synthesis. They are typically used as electrophiles in nucleophilic substitution reactions. These molecules can also be activated via single-electron-transfer (SET) process for radical reactions. Representative recent progress includes α-carbon benzylation of ketones and aldehydes via photoredox catalysis. Here we disclose the generation of (nitro)benzyl radicals viaN-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis under reductive conditions. The radical intermediates generated via NHC catalysis undergo formal 1,2-addition with ketones to eventually afford tertiary alcohol products. The overall process constitutes a formal polarity-inversion of benzyl bromide, allowing a direct coupling of two initially electrophilic carbons. Our study provides a new carbene-catalysed reaction mode that should enable unconventional transformation of (nitro)benzyl bromides under mild organocatalytic conditions.
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