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Access to Perfluoroalkyl-Substituted Enones and Indolin-2-ones via Multicomponent Pd-Catalyzed Carbonylative
Hongfei Yin1, Troels Skrydstrup1
1Carbon Dioxide Activation Center (CADIAC), Department of Chemistry and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University , Gustav Wieds Vej 14, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.
Abstract:
A simple method for accessing perfluoroalkyl-substituted enones is described applying a four-component palladium-catalyzed carbonylative coupling of aryl boronic acids together with terminal alkynes and perfluoroalkyl iodides in the presence of carbon monoxide. A wide range of highly functionalized enones can thus be prepared in a single operation in good yields. With 2-aminophenylalkynes, an intramolecular aminocarbonylation event overrules providing the indolin-2-one framework. Finally, adaptation of the two-chamber technology expands the method to the synthesis of the aforementioned structures with 13C-isotope labeling.
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