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Chain Walking as a Strategy for Iridium-Catalyzed Migratory Amidation of Alkenyl Alcohols to Access α-Amino Ketones

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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 9, Pages 4277-4285

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00948

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  1. Institute for Basic Science [IBS-R010-D1]

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This study presents a tandem iridium catalysis that enables the redox-relay amidation of alkenyl alcohols, offering a new route to various alpha-amino ketones with excellent regioselectivity. Mechanistic investigations reveal that the reaction proceeds via a tandem process involving chain walking and intermolecular nitrenoid transfer, with the assistance of hydrogen bonding.
Catalytic carbon-nitrogen bond formation in hydrocarbons is an appealing synthetic tool to access valuable nitrogen-containing compounds. Although a number of synthetic approaches have been developed to construct a bifunctional alpha-amino carbonyl scaffold in this realm, installation of an amino functionality at the remote and unfunctionalized aliphatic sites remains underdeveloped. Here we present a tandem iridium catalysis that enables the redox-relay amidation of alkenyl alcohols via chain walking and metal-nitrenoid transfer, which eventually offers a new route to various alpha-amino ketones with excellent regioselectivity. The virtue of this transformation is that an unrefined isomeric mixture of alkenyl alcohols can be utilized as the readily available starting materials to lead to the regioconvergent amidation. Mechanistic investigations revealed that the reaction proceeds via a tandem process involving two key components of redox-relay chain walking and intermolecular nitrenoid transfer with the assistance of hydrogen bonding, thus representing the competence of Ir catalysis for the olefin migratory C-N coupling with high efficiency and exquisite selectivity.

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