Issue 18, 2019

One-pot ortho-amination of aryl C–H bonds using consecutive iron and copper catalysis

Abstract

A one-pot approach for ortho-coupling of arenes with non-actived N-nucleophiles has been developed using sequential iron and copper catalysis. Regioselective ortho-activation of anisoles, anilines and phenols was achieved through iron(III) triflimide catalysed iodination, followed by a copper(I)-catalysed, ligand-assisted coupling reaction with N-heterocycle, amide and sulfonamide-based nucleophiles. The synthetic utility of this one-pot, two-step method for the direct amination of ortho-aryl C–H bonds was demonstrated with the late-stage functionalisation of 3,4-dihydroquinolin-2-ones. This allowed the preparation of a TRIM24 bromodomain inhibitor and a series of novel analogues.

Graphical abstract: One-pot ortho-amination of aryl C–H bonds using consecutive iron and copper catalysis

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Mar 2019
Accepted
18 Apr 2019
First published
18 Apr 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 4629-4639

One-pot ortho-amination of aryl C–H bonds using consecutive iron and copper catalysis

M. C. Henry, R. McGrory, R. J. Faggyas, M. A. B. Mostafa and A. Sutherland, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 4629 DOI: 10.1039/C9OB00712A

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