Journal
GREEN CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 1894-1905Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9gc03992a
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- CNRS [GDR 2088]
- Universite de Paris
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A bioinspired organocatalytic cascade reaction mimicking both purpurogallin biosynthesis and copper amine oxidases (CuAOs) activity is described, at room temperature under ambient air, for the activation of the alpha -C-H bond of primary amines. The reaction sequence uses low-cost commercially available pyrogallol as a precatalyst which undergoes an in situ oxidative self-processing step, resulting in its conversion into natural purpurogallin, a [5 + 2] cycloaddition redox intermediate. This is further involved in the CuAOs-like transamination mechanism for producing, under single turnover, the active biomimetic organocatalyst which mediates the selective oxidative coupling of primary amines, including the non-activated substrates of CuAOs. Without any metal cocatalyst or additives, the protocol gives access to cross-coupled imines as well as 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles. The isolation of not easily accessible [5 + 2] cycloaddition redox intermediates provides direct and clear evidence for the proposed dual biomimetic process.
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