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- Title
Two-Step One-Pot Synthesis of Unsymmetrical (Hetero)Aryl 1,2-Diketones by Addition-Oxygenation of Potassium Aryltrifluoroborates to (Hetero)Arylacetonitriles.
- Authors
Kumar, Yogesh; Jaiswal, Yogesh; Kumar, Amit
- Abstract
An efficient one-pot two-step procedure for the synthesis of unsymmetrical (hetero)aryl 1,2-diketones has been developed. The reaction proceeds through a palladium-catalyzed nucleophilic addition of potassium aryltrifluoroborates to aliphatic nitriles followed by a copper-catalyzed aerobic benzylic C-H oxygenation using molecular oxygen as a green oxidant. This represents the first example of the direct synthesis of unsymmetrical diaryl 1,2-diketones from arylacetonitriles. This method utilizes inexpensive, stable, nontoxic, and readily available starting materials, is highly effective in the presence of both electron-rich and electron-poor nitriles and aryltrifluoroborates, and tolerates a wide variety of functional groups. The synthetic utility of this transformation was shown by increasing the scale of the reaction and by carrying out the one-pot protocol for the preparation of quinoxaline and benzimidazole derivatives. A plausible reaction mechanism has also been proposed.
- Subjects
AROMATIC compound synthesis; KETONES; OXYGENATION (Chemistry); POTASSIUM compounds; ACETONITRILE; NITRILE synthesis
- Publication
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018, Vol 2018, Issue 4, p494
- ISSN
1434-193X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejoc.201701625