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Kanako Nozawa-Kumada1, Satoshi Saga1, Yuta Matsuzawa1
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
Abstract:
β-Lactams are important structural motifs because of their ubiquity in natural products and pharmaceuticals. We report herein a Cu-catalyzed intramolecular oxidative C(sp3 )-H amidation for the synthesis of β-lactams using tBuOOtBu. This method is based on Kharasch-Sosnovsky amidation and does not require prefunctionalization of C(sp3 )-H bonds or the installation of a directing group, thereby allowing for the straightforward synthesis of β-lactams. Our intramolecular functionalization protocol can be extended to diverse benzylic C(sp3 )-H bonds and shows excellent functional-group tolerance.
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