Silver-Mediated Direct Amination of Benzoxazoles: Tuning the Amino Group Source from Formamides to Parent Amines
Silver-Mediated Direct Amination of Benzoxazoles: Tuning the Amino Group Source from Formamides to Parent Amines
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200903957
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Chang, Sukbok
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作者:
Cho, Seung Hwan;Kim, Ji Young;Chang, Sukbok
The construction of CÀN bonds of heteroaromatic compounds is a highly important transformation in synthetic chemistry since it can offer nitrogen-containing molecules of great interest in biological, pharmaceutical, and materials sciences.[1] During the past decades, remarkable progresses have been made in the metal-facilitated CÀN bond-forming reactions such as hydroamination [2] or oxidative amidation [3] of double or triple bonds as well as the Buchwald–Hartwigtype cross couplings.[4] Despite these significant advances, direct installation of amino groups or their surrogates on aryl or alkyl CÀH bonds is still challenging. To meet this demand, a new approach involving oxidative addition of amino or amido moieties into hydrocarbons has been extensively studied.[5, 6] In particular, site-selective amination of preorganized arenes through catalytic CÀH bond activation was recently developed.[6] An ortho-selective amination of naphthols through thermal cleavage of disubstituted hydrazines was also reported.[7] Most recently, Mori and co-workers have reported an oxidative amination of azoles using copper salts at high temperature (% 1408C).[8] Herein, we describe an unprecedented silver-mediated CÀN bond formation of benzoxazoles by decarbonylative coupling with formamides. On the basis of mechanistic considerations, we have also developed a direct amination protocol with parent amines under very mild reaction conditions.[9] In line with our recent efforts on metal-catalyzed CÀH bond functionalization,[10] we wondered whether subjection of electron-rich heteroarenes to Pd/Ag-catalytic systems in the presence of formamides could provide amidated products (Scheme 1).[11] To our surprise, when benzoxazole (1a) was treated with N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) using the Pd-(OAc) 2/Ag2CO3 system in the presence of an acetic acid additive, 2-aminated benzoxazole 2a was obtained as a single product, albeit in moderate yield. In contrast, no amidated product 3a was observed under other reaction conditions examined.[12] Subsequent studies revealed that the unexpected decarbonylative amination reaction also proceeded even in the absence of the palladium catalyst and with slightly higher yields.Encouraged by these preliminary result, we subsequently tried to optimize the decarbonylative amination conditions using benzoxazole (1a) in neat DMF (40 equiv),[13] as shown in Table 1. Although no desired product was obtained in the absence of the silver salt or the acid additives (entries 1 and 2), addition of certain types of carboxylic acids promoted the transformation in the presence of silver salts (entries 3–8).[14] Among various acids examined, p-anisic acid turned out to be most effective for the amination reaction (entry 8). Catalytic amounts of Ag2CO3 did not furnish the desired product (entry9), thus indicating that the use of stoichiometric amounts of silver salts is essential for smooth conversion under these reaction conditions.[15] In addition, other silver sources such as Ag2O, AgOAc, AgOTf (Tf= triflate), or AgF (entry 10) were less effective when compared to Ag2CO3.[13]