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Published on: June 21, 2017
Electrochemical Rearrangement for Remote Functionalizations of Unactivated Alkenes
Dingyi Wang1, Binbin Yuan1, Jiawei Xu1
1Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie and Wöhler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 2, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
An electrochemical strategy for the dual functionalizations of unactivated alkenes through an intramolecular migration process was realized in the absence of sacrificial chemical oxidants and noble-metal catalysts under mild reaction conditions. The electrochemistry enabled a (hetero)aryl migration while providing access to alkenyl/alkynyl-migration products. Thus, electricity was employed for the formation of functionalized fluoroalkyl radicals through activation of C-H/C-Br bonds from fluorinated esters. Thereby, we obtained a variety of di and mono-fluorinated alkyl products with good functional group tolerance as well as chemo, and regioselectivities. Likewise, defluorinative allylation of α-carbonyl alkyl bromides proved viable. The reaction mechanism was established by experiments and computations.
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