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SCIENCE
Volume 349, Issue 6254, Pages 1326-1330Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac9895
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- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Merck
- Amgen Young Investigator Award
- Francis Preston Venable Graduate Fellowship
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Over the past several decades, organometallic cross-coupling chemistry has developed into one of the most reliable approaches to assemble complex aromatic compounds from preoxidized starting materials. More recently, transition metal-catalyzed carbon-hydrogen activation has circumvented the need for preoxidized starting materials, but this approach is limited by a lack of practical amination protocols. Here, we present a blueprint for aromatic carbon-hydrogen functionalization via photoredox catalysis and describe the utility of this strategy for arene amination. An organic photoredox-based catalyst system, consisting of an acridinium photooxidant and a nitroxyl radical, promotes site-selective amination of a variety of simple and complex aromatics with heteroaromatic azoles of interest in pharmaceutical research. We also describe the atom-economical use of ammonia to form anilines, without the need for prefunctionalization of the aromatic component.
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