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Mitsuhiro Ueda1, Kazuya Kamikawa1, Takahide Fukuyama1
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8531, Japan.
Abstract:
A broad variety of unactivated acyclic and alicyclic substrates cleanly undergo site-selective alkenylation of unactivated C(sp3 )-H bonds with 1,2-bis(phenylsulfonyl)ethene in the presence of persulfate. This simple transformation furnishes (E)-2-alkylvinylphenylsulfones in up to 88 % yield. In contrast with the previously reported decatungstate protocol, the current method is applicable to alkenylation of sterically hindered C-H bonds. This important advantage significantly broadens the substrate scope, and is attributed to the compact size of the sulfate radical employed in the C-H activation and cleavage.
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