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Tao Zhang1, Zhen Wang1, Xuejiao Hu1
1Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University , Nanjing, 210093, China.
Abstract:
An Ir(III)-catalyzed direct C-H amidation/cyclization of benzamides using 2,2,2-trichloroethoxycarbonyl azide (TrocN3) as the aminocarbonyl source is reported. With the aid of cesium carboxylate, the reactions proceed efficiently and with high regioselectivity, producing various functionalized quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-diones, which are important building blocks and key synthetic intermediates for biologically and medicinally important compounds. During the reactions, two new C-N bonds were formed by breaking C-H and N-H bonds sequence.
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