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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 7, Pages 3636-3644Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13975
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21622204, 21772161]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China [2019J02001]
- President Research Funds from Xiamen University [20720180036]
- NFFTBS [J1310024]
- PCSIRT
- Science & Technology Cooperation Program of Xiamen [3502Z20183015]
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In the past decades, significant advances have been made on radical Smiles rearrangement. However, the eventually formed radical intermediates in these reactions are limited to the amidyl radical, except for the few examples initiated by a N-centered radical. Here, a novel and practical radical Smiles rearrangement triggered by photoredox-catalyzed regioselective ketyl-ynamide coupling is reported, which represents the first radical Smiles rearrangement of ynamides. This method enables facile access to a variety of valuable 2-benzhydrylindoles with broad substrate scope in generally good yields under mild reaction conditions. In addition, this chemistry can also be extended to the divergent synthesis of versatile 3-benzhydrylisoquinolines through a similar ketyl-ynamide coupling and radical Smiles rearrangement, followed by dehydrogenative oxidation. Moreover, such an ynamide Smiles rearrangement initiated by intermolecular photoredox catalysis via addition of external radical sources is also achieved. By control experiments, the reaction was shown to proceed via key ketyl radical and a-imino carbon radical intermediates.
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