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Visible-light-promoted difluoroamidated oxindole synthesis via electron donor-acceptor complexes
Wei-Feng Wang1, Tao Liu1, Yan-Liang Cheng1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China. qhsong@ustc.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A method involving a metal-free visible-light-promoted synthesis was developed for the construction of difluoroalkylated oxindoles with N-phenylacrylamides and bromodifluoroacetamides as starting materials in the presence of N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA). Twenty-four examples of the photochemical reaction were successfully performed, with good yields (44-99%) and excellent substrate adaptability. Mechanistic studies showed that the visible-light-promoted reaction involved a radical addition to N-phenylacrylamide, intramolecular cyclization, dehydrogenation, and rearomatization. The difluoroacetamide radical was produced as a result of electron transfer to bromodifluoroacetamides from the electron donor TMEDA in their electron-donor-acceptor (EDA) complexes under visible light irradiation. This protocol is a promising photochemical method due to its advantages of mild conditions, simple operation, wide substrate scope and high yields. And the obtained products may have great potential in the field of medicine.
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