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Solvent Anions Enable Photoinduced Borylation and Phosphonation of Aryl Halides via EDA Complexes
Lei Pan1, Macy M Deckert1, Maria Victoria Cooke1
1Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5143, United States.
Abstract:
We report the synthesis of aryl boronic esters and aryl phosphonate esters promoted by visible-light in the absence of transition-metals or photoredox catalysts. The transformation proceeds at room temperature using sodium hydride, as a non-nucleophilic base, and exhibits functional group tolerance for anilines, amides, and esters. UV-vis spectroscopy, radical trapping experiments, and computational (TD-DFT) calculations suggest an electron-donor-acceptor (EDA) complex between solvent anions and aryl halides as the species responsible for this reactivity.
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