Photocatalytic deaminative benzylation and alkylation of tetrahydroisoquinolines with N-alkylpyrydinium salts

• David Schönbauer,
• Carlo Sambiagio,
• Timothy Noël and
• Michael Schnürch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 809–817, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.74

• (sp3) coupling; deaminative coupling; Katritzky salt; photoredox catalysis; Introduction The selective formation of new carbon–carbon bonds via direct C–H functionalization bears the potential of being a process of high efficiency [1][2][3]. Since C–H bonds are omnipresent in organic compounds it is

• demonstrate the deaminative coupling of N-benzylpyridinium Katritzky salts with THIQs under ruthenium photoredox catalysis. During the preparation of this article, a similar transformation was disclosed using an iridium photoredox catalyst [47]. Results and Discussion We started our investigations by