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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
Published on: September 26, 2016
Tropene derivatives by sequential intermolecular and transannular, intramolecular palladium-catalyzed hydroamination
Norio Sakai1, André Ridder, John F Hartwig
1Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 208107, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
Abstract:
A consecutive inter- and intramolecular hydroamination of cycloheptatriene with primary aromatic amines, benzylic amines, and beta-phenethylamines occurs to produce pharmaceutically relevant tropene (8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octene) frameworks in good to excellent yields. This reaction occurs in the presence of a catalyst generated from palladium trifluoroacetate, 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)xanthene and a mild acid. Mechanistic studies reveal that the overall process has some reversible steps, but that the rate of these reverse reactions are far slower than the rates of the forward catalytic process.
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