Nickel-Catalyzed Methylation of Aryl Halides with Deuterated Methyl Iodide
Lu Hu1, Xin Liu1, Xuebin Liao2
1Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Abstract:
A nickel-catalyzed methylation of aryl halides with cheap and readily available CH3 I or CD3 I is described. The reaction is applicable to a wide range of substrates and allows installation of a CD3 group under mild reaction conditions without deuterium scrambling to other carbon atoms. Initial mechanistic studies on the stoichiometric and catalytic reactions of the isolated [(dppp)Ni(C6 H4 -4-CO2 Et)Br] [dppp=1,3-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)propane] suggest that a Ni(0) /Ni(II) catalytic cycle is favored.
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