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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 4654-4659Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7sc00953d
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- Singapore A*STAR SERC Public Sector Research Funding (PSF) [R-143-000-566-305]
- National University of Singapore [R-143-000-645-112, R-143-000-665-114]
- GSK-EDB [R-143-000-492-592]
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Despite notable recent efforts, a catalytic and convenient strategy for the direct alkylation of unactivated allylic or benzylic sp(3) C-H bonds remains a formidable challenge facing the synthesis community. We herein report an unprecedented allylic/benzylic alkylation using only an organo-photoredox catalyst, which enables coupling of a broad scope of alkenes/arenes and electron-deficient alkenes in an atom- and redox-economic manner. A photoredox induced alkene/arene radical cation deprotonation is proposed to smoothly generate the key allylic and benzylic radical intermediates. It represents the first C-C bond formation via radical cation deprotonation under visible light conditions. The resulting products can be easily scaled up and directly converted to gamma,delta-unsaturated or alpha,beta-diaryl-acids, -esters, -amides, -pyrazoles, -isoxazoles, as well as lactones, which enables this mild and selective sp(3) C-H alkylation to rapidly access complex bioactive molecules.
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