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Photosensitized direct C–H fluorination and trifluoromethylation in organic synthesis

  • Shahboz Yakubov and
  • Joshua P. Barham

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2151–2192, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.183

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  • formation of fluorine radicals. The generated alkyl radical could abstract fluorine atoms either from i) the AQN–F complex to regenerate AQN or ii) Selectfluor® to regenerate the Selectfluor® radical cation and thereby propagate a chain reaction. Following shortly after Tan’s report, Chen and co-workers
  • (+)-sclareolide (C2 and C3) are remote from the lactone EWG and both form secondary radicals. Thus, the fluorination of these positions is presumably dictated by hindrance, given that the C3 position is neighbored by a gem-dimethyl group and is fluorinated to a lesser extent (22%). In both reports, the C2/C3
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Published 03 Sep 2020

A complementary approach to conjugated N-acyliminium formation through photoredox-catalyzed intermolecular radical addition to allenamides and allencarbamates

  • Olusesan K. Koleoso,
  • Matthew Turner,
  • Felix Plasser and
  • Marc C. Kimber

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1983–1990, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.165

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  • radical cyclization of allenamides have been reported by Hsung and co-workers, where the radical adds principally to the central carbon of the allene (10) [45]; and (iii) the photoredox-catalyzed addition of radicals to enamides reported by Masson [46][47][48][49], and more recently by our own laboratory
  • ]. Mechanistically, the formation of the key conjugated N-acyliminum 14a from α-aminoallyl radical 41 is analogous to the photoredox initiated addition of radicals to enamides [46][48][49]. Consequently, the formation of 14a can results from a SET event between the oxidized Ir(III) [55] and the α-aminoallyl radical
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Published 12 Aug 2020

Metal-free synthesis of phosphinoylchroman-4-ones via a radical phosphinoylation–cyclization cascade mediated by K2S2O8

  • Qiang Liu,
  • Weibang Lu,
  • Guanqun Xie and
  • Xiaoxia Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1974–1982, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.164

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  • temperature at 70 °C based on the fact that K2S2O8 thermally decomposes forming sulfate radicals (SO4·−) [29][30], which may react with the substrates to furnish such a cascade cyclization. To our delight, the anticipated product 3aa was obtained in 42% yield in DMSO/H2O (4:1) as reaction medium in one pot
  • , we successfully separated a small amount of byproduct 4 which was identified by NMR spectroscopy. These experiments clearly support a phosphorus-centered radical reaction pathway. It has been reported that phosphorus-centered radicals could be generated from phosphine oxides in the presence of
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Published 12 Aug 2020

When metal-catalyzed C–H functionalization meets visible-light photocatalysis

  • Lucas Guillemard and
  • Joanna Wencel-Delord

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1754–1804, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.147

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  • mild heteroaromatic functionalizations. Last but not least, a HAT-type process inducing the generation of alkyl radicals via selective C–H abstraction from the aliphatic precursors may be combined with a Ni-catalyzed process, thus delivering cross-coupled products. The aim of this review is to present
  • alkane products could be controlled by adjusting the acidity of the reaction media. As in the previously described examples, molecular oxygen plays a key role in the mechanism of the C–H functionalization (Figure 10). Indeed, both the photoexcited Ir-based catalyst and the superoxide radicals formed in
  • activation of one substrate, and a two-electron activation by a transition-metal catalyst of the other. The main advantage of such a system is to promote highly regioselective reactions. Indeed, while radical transformations generally suffer from selectivity issues, interception of radicals by metal
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Published 21 Jul 2020

Synthesis of new dihydroberberine and tetrahydroberberine analogues and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity on NCI-H1975 cells

  • Giacomo Mari,
  • Lucia De Crescentini,
  • Serena Benedetti,
  • Francesco Palma,
  • Stefania Santeusanio and
  • Fabio Mantellini

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1606–1616, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.133

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  • , namely pyrrolino-tetrahydroberberines, synthesized by some of us [68], exhibited enhanced antioxidant properties in comparison to THBER against a wide variety of pathophysiologically relevant oxidants such as peroxyl radicals, ferrous ion, and hydrogen peroxide [65]. In continuation of our ongoing
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Photoredox-catalyzed silyldifluoromethylation of silyl enol ethers

  • Vyacheslav I. Supranovich,
  • Vitalij V. Levin and
  • Alexander D. Dilman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1550–1553, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.126

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  • source of hydrogen [21]. We thought that silane 1 could couple with silyl enol ethers in the presence of a photocatalyst affording fluoroalkylation products. Indeed, silyl enol ethers were found to be good acceptors of fluorinated radicals, and the resultant silyloxy-substituted radicals underwent single
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Published 29 Jun 2020

Heterogeneous photocatalysis in flow chemical reactors

  • Christopher G. Thomson,
  • Ai-Lan Lee and
  • Filipe Vilela

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1495–1549, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.125

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  • liquid medium are capable of breaking chemical bonds, including the sonolysis of water to hydrogen and hydroxyl radicals [159]. These conditions arise from a process known as acoustic cavitation in which the expanding phase of the acoustic wave creates microscopic voids within the solution, which
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Published 26 Jun 2020

4-Hydroxy-3-methyl-2(1H)-quinolone, originally discovered from a Brassicaceae plant, produced by a soil bacterium of the genus Burkholderia sp.: determination of a preferred tautomer and antioxidant activity

  • Dandan Li,
  • Naoya Oku,
  • Yukiko Shinozaki,
  • Yoichi Kurokawa and
  • Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1489–1494, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.124

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  • the control reaction (Figure 3). Because the Fenton reaction catalyzed by Cu2+ was used to generate the hydroxy radicals, entrapment of Cu2+ by 1 was initially suspected as the mechanism of chemiluminescence inhibition. However, this speculation was ruled out by a titration experiment using Chrome
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Published 26 Jun 2020

Photocatalyzed syntheses of phenanthrenes and their aza-analogues. A review

  • Alessandra Del Tito,
  • Havall Othman Abdulla,
  • Davide Ravelli,
  • Stefano Protti and
  • Maurizio Fagnoni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1476–1488, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.123

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  • ; phenanthridines; photocatalysis; radicals; visible light; Introduction Phenanthrenes are widely investigated compounds, due to the impressive number of diverse applications involving this scaffold, ranging from medicinal chemistry [1] to materials sciences, including their use in optoelectronics [2][3] and in
  • inexpensive visible light (or sunlight, when possible) irradiation [29]. In general terms, photocatalysis smoothly gives access to reactive radical intermediates [30], mainly carbon-centered [31][32][33], or nitrogen-centered radicals [34][35]. In turn, these species have been extensively employed in radical
  • -bromochalcones (Scheme 3). Thus, compounds 3.1a–d underwent a one-electron reduction by the excited photocatalyst fac-Ir(ppy)3. Upon bromide anion loss, the α-keto vinyl radicals 3.2·a–d were then formed, which smoothly added onto the vicinal aromatic ring in an intramolecular fashion, affording phenanthrene
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Published 25 Jun 2020

An overview on disulfide-catalyzed and -cocatalyzed photoreactions

  • Yeersen Patehebieke

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1418–1435, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.118

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  • . Under photoirradiation, organic disulfides can be easily cleaved into free thiyl radicals (RS•) and can reversibly add to unsaturated multiple bonds to catalyze a variety of functionalization reactions under mild conditions. In photoredox catalysis reactions, an excellent electron transfer ability and
  • excellent radical properties also made these thiyl radicals powerful HAT catalysts. They have increasingly been proven useful in various types of organic photoreactions, such as cyclizations, anti-Markovnikov additions, aromatic olefin carbonylations, isomerizations, etc. They are a class of green, economic
  • catalytic abilities: they can be a photocatalyst, HAT catalyst, initiator, or cocatalyst in organic synthesis. The thiyl radicals (RS•) formed under illumination conditions have the unique ability of promote radical bond-forming reactions. Their ability to reversibly add to unsaturated bonds, promoting a
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Published 23 Jun 2020

Distinctive reactivity of N-benzylidene-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-amines under photoredox conditions

  • Shrikant D. Tambe,
  • Kwan Hong Min,
  • Naeem Iqbal and
  • Eun Jin Cho

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1335–1342, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.114

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  • unprecedented reductive coupling of N-benzylidene-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-amines with an aliphatic amine. The presence of a phenyl substituent in the aniline moiety of the substrate was critical for the reactivity. The reaction proceeded via radical–radical cross-coupling of α-amino radicals generated by proton
  • ]. Among these diverse applications, the Rueping group has reported excellent examples of the reductive umpolung homocoupling of imines and heterocoupling with α-amino radicals for the synthesis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical vicinal diamines (Scheme 1b) [23][26]. Notably, 1,2-diamines have widespread
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Published 18 Jun 2020

Oxime radicals: generation, properties and application in organic synthesis

  • Igor B. Krylov,
  • Stanislav A. Paveliev,
  • Alexander S. Budnikov and
  • Alexander O. Terent’ev

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1234–1276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.107

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  • Igor B. Krylov Stanislav A. Paveliev Alexander S. Budnikov Alexander O. Terent'ev N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 47, Moscow, 119991, Russia 10.3762/bjoc.16.107 Abstract N-Oxyl radicals (compounds with an N–O• fragment) represent one
  • of the richest families of stable and persistent organic radicals with applications ranging from catalysis of selective oxidation processes and mechanistic studies to production of polymers, energy storage, magnetic materials design and spectroscopic studies of biological objects. Compared to other N
  • -oxyl radicals, oxime radicals (or iminoxyl radicals) have been underestimated for a long time as useful intermediates for organic synthesis, despite the fact that their precursors, oximes, are extremely widespread and easily available organic compounds. Furthermore, oxime radicals are structurally
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Published 05 Jun 2020

Synthesis of pyrrolidinedione-fused hexahydropyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines via three-component [3 + 2] cycloaddition followed by one-pot N-allylation and intramolecular Heck reactions

  • Xiaoming Ma,
  • Suzhi Meng,
  • Xiaofeng Zhang,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Shenghu Yan,
  • Yue Zhang and
  • Wei Zhang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1225–1233, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.106

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  • crispine A isolated from Carduus crispus L has antitumor activity [3]. Erythrina alkaloids have curare-like neuromuscular blocking activities [4], and also antioxidant activity against DPPH free radicals [5]. Lamellarins isolated from marine invertebrates [6] are inhibitors for HIV-1 integrase and also
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Photocatalysis with organic dyes: facile access to reactive intermediates for synthesis

  • Stephanie G. E. Amos,
  • Marion Garreau,
  • Luca Buzzetti and
  • Jerome Waser

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1163–1187, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.103

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  • -, nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-centered radicals, open-shell charged species, and sensitized organic compounds. Keywords: organic dyes; photocatalysis; photoredox catalysis; radicals; reactive intermediates; Review Introduction In the last decade, synthetic organic chemistry has experienced the
  • reactive intermediates. After a short introduction on activation modes in photocatalysis, selected case studies where organic dyes have been exploited for generating carbon-centered radicals, charged open-shell species, and heteroatom-centered radicals will be covered. The last short section will be
  • devoted to activated organic substrates generated by energy transfer. C(sp) radicals will not be discussed. To the best of our knowledge, no report on an organophotocatalyzed generation of a C(sp) species has been disclosed yet. Each presented approach will be accompanied by one selected example, which we
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Published 29 May 2020

Recent applications of porphyrins as photocatalysts in organic synthesis: batch and continuous flow approaches

  • Rodrigo Costa e Silva,
  • Luely Oliveira da Silva,
  • Aloisio de Andrade Bartolomeu,
  • Timothy John Brocksom and
  • Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 917–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.83

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  • HEH were used as H donors for both the benzyl and thiyl radicals, respectively. The HEH was needed to avoid the dimerization of the thiophenol to the disulfide (Scheme 11). Fu and co-workers have demonstrated the huge versatility of rhodium porphyrins for photocatalysis. In 2015, they showed that the
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Published 06 May 2020

Copper catalysis with redox-active ligands

  • Agnideep Das,
  • Yufeng Ren,
  • Cheriehan Hessin and
  • Marine Desage-El Murr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 858–870, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.77

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  • with TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidine N-oxyl) [25] and ABNO (9-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane N-oxyl) radicals [26]. Later reports enlarged the synthetic scope of this methodology and provided access to a wide range of synthetically useful building blocks such as substituted heterocycles, fluorinated
  • Chaudhuri [11][12][13] using well-defined copper complex 7, originally reported as a GAO mimic [20][21][22], we showed that this ability could be extended to the catalytic generation of trifluoromethyl radicals (Scheme 7) [29]. The synthetic efficiency of complex 7 in trifluoromethylation was reported on a
  • cycle for the C–C coupling. The coupling reaction follows a radical–anion mechanism due to the presence of electron-donating ligand 12 and this is the key feature allowing preferential binding of the phenoxyl radicals for PCET. Products arising from homo- and heterocouplings were formed with high
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Published 24 Apr 2020

Aldehydes as powerful initiators for photochemical transformations

  • Maria A. Theodoropoulou,
  • Nikolaos F. Nikitas and
  • Christoforos G. Kokotos

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 833–857, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.76

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  • , benzaldehyde (8) has also been studied for the ability to carry out HAT processes. In 1975, Obi and co-worker studied the photochemistry of excited benzaldehyde (9) with the use of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) [20]. They detected that the generated radicals from this process were the α-hydroxybenzyl
  • when they were alone present in an aqueous solution, they tended to form hydrates 45 with water via hydrogen bonding. The hydrogen bonding increased the energy levels of the excited states of 45, permitting the formation of radicals after UV light absorption [48]. These radicals either dissociated via
  • Norrish type I reactions, forming two radicals, 47 and 48 (reaction (1) in Scheme 12), or abstracted a hydrogen atom from a ketone/aldehyde monomer, forming a monomeric radical and an alcohol radical 49 (reaction (2) in Scheme 12). The excited state of the hydrates 45 and 46, in an aqueous solution may
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Published 23 Apr 2020

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

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  • functionalization. These salts are known since the late 1970s [30], but only in the last few years they have found application in a wide variety of radical processes, initiated by a single-electron reduction of the pyridinium salts, and subsequent generation of alkyl radicals [31][32][33][34]. Among these
  • , electrophilic alkyl radicals were used in several transformations, such as electrophilic cross couplings under nickel catalysis, either with boronic acids [35] or different (aryl)halides [36][37][38]. Furthermore, visible light-promoted uncatalyzed electron transfer via the formation of electron donor–acceptor
  • (EDA) complexes [39] was established between Hantzsch esters and pyridinium salts generating radicals, which were coupled with several substrates [40]. Later, methods without sacrificial reductant were also established, forming an EDA complex between the used substrates. Examples of this strategy are
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Recent advances in Cu-catalyzed C(sp3)–Si and C(sp3)–B bond formation

  • Balaram S. Takale,
  • Ruchita R. Thakore,
  • Elham Etemadi-Davan and
  • Bruce H. Lipshutz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 691–737, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.67

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  • leading to an electron transfer to the iodine atom, thereby liberating iodide, an alkyl radical, and a radical cation of the Cu complex. Recombination of the latter radicals leads to the formation of the desired silane along with the regeneration of the active Cu species (Scheme 8). This strategy was also
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Published 15 Apr 2020

Controlling alkyne reactivity by means of a copper-catalyzed radical reaction system for the synthesis of functionalized quaternary carbons

  • Goki Hirata,
  • Yu Yamane,
  • Naoya Tsubaki,
  • Reina Hara and
  • Takashi Nishikata

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 502–508, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.45

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  • alkyl radicals generated from the reaction of a copper catalyst and an α-bromocarbonyl compound can undergo i) Sonogashira type couplings via an alkynyl-Cu intermediate [20], ii) cis-hydro tertiary alkylations via 1-alkenyl-Cu [21], and iii) trans-hydro tertiary alkylations via atom-transfer radical
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Published 26 Mar 2020

KOt-Bu-promoted selective ring-opening N-alkylation of 2-oxazolines to access 2-aminoethyl acetates and N-substituted thiazolidinones

  • Qiao Lin,
  • Shiling Zhang and
  • Bin Li

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 492–501, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.44

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  • coordination chemistry, and also valuable protecting or directing groups in catalysis [1][2][3]. 2-Oxazolines are a readily stable class of heterocycles resistant to a range of nucleophiles, bases, or radicals [4][5], which can be easily generated from amino alcohols and carboxylic acids, and from alkenes or
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Published 25 Mar 2020

Recent advances in photocatalyzed reactions using well-defined copper(I) complexes

  • Mingbing Zhong,
  • Xavier Pannecoucke,
  • Philippe Jubault and
  • Thomas Poisson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 451–481, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.42

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  • development. Furthermore, photocatalysis allowed to realize elusive transformations as this approach provided better control over the formation of radicals or the reduction or oxidation of reagents, for instance. For all these reasons, photocatalysis is nowadays at the forefront of cutting-edge research in
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Published 23 Mar 2020

Photophysics and photochemistry of NIR absorbers derived from cyanines: key to new technologies based on chemistry 4.0

  • Bernd Strehmel,
  • Christian Schmitz,
  • Ceren Kütahya,
  • Yulian Pang,
  • Anke Drewitz and
  • Heinz Mustroph

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 415–444, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.40

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  • their use in applications based on sensitized photoinduced electron transfer. This can be NIR-sensitized photopolymerization resulting in formation of initiating radicals and conjugate acid [5][6][13][14][15][63][64]. Recently, the use of NIR-LEDs exhibiting high excitation intensity brought more light
  • where the absorber uptakes the function of a sensitizer to generate initiating radicals and conjugate acid [13][14][15][16][17][58][65]. The fact that these systems work upon turning ON/OFF cycles facilitates their use in Industry 4.0 related applications where printing represents one feasible
  • excited state possesses several competitive reaction pathways for deactivation. This is a photochemical reaction such as photoinduced electron transfer serving as source to generate reactive intermediates such as initiating radicals or conjugate acid [5]. Photophysical events of S1 occurring after one
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Published 18 Mar 2020

Visible-light-induced addition of carboxymethanide to styrene from monochloroacetic acid

  • Kaj M. van Vliet,
  • Nicole S. van Leeuwen,
  • Albert M. Brouwer and
  • Bas de Bruin

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 398–408, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.38

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  • . Single-electron oxidation can produce carbon-centered radicals from substrates such as amines [17], alkenes [18], and carboxylates [19], or by hydrogen-atom transfer to an oxidatively formed thiolate radical [20]. Single-electron reduction produces carbon-centered radicals from, for example, aryl
  • nitriles [21], carbonyl or imine species [22], iodonium or diazonium salts [23], or halide species [24]. The formation of radicals from halide species by photoredox catalysis has been widely studied. It has been applied as a mild method for the dehalogenation of several compounds [25][26][27]. In the light
  • decarboxylative activation we anticipated its possibilities in cyclopropanation. The chloromethyl radical generation by photoredox catalysis is a useful strategy for cyclopropanation [58]. Most photoredox catalyzed, decarboxylative generations of carbon-centered radicals are based on the formation of “stabilized
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Published 16 Mar 2020

Room-temperature Pd/Ag direct arylation enabled by a radical pathway

  • Amy L. Mayhugh and
  • Christine K. Luscombe

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 384–390, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.36

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  • reported for decarboxylative coupling between indole and 2-nitrobenzoic acids at 110 °C [18]. Under such conditions, silver carboxylates decompose to produce carbonyl and phenyl radicals, which could explain the origin of nitrobenzene incorporation [19][20]. When the radical trapping agent BHT was added to
  • that proceed under mild conditions, improving energy requirements and scalability. Work is ongoing to leverage this insight into new direct arylation methods utilizing palladium-involved radicals. 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3) of (a) 5-iodo-1-octylindole monomer (b) PIn prepared according to conditions in
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