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Si-Yu You1, Jie Huang1, Yan-Hong He1
1Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry of Chongqing Municipality, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing400715, China.
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This work presents a novel photocatalytic halogen atom transfer (XAT) strategy, enabling redox-neutral C(sp3)-C(sp3) coupling between N-aryl tetrahydroisoquinolines and unactivated alkyl halides. The strategy employs an α-aminoalkyl radical, generated in situ from N-aryl tetrahydroisoquinoline via single-electron transfer (SET) oxidation under photocatalytic conditions. This radical acts as a traceless XAT reagent to activate alkyl bromides/chlorides/iodides (C-X bond), forming key alkyl carbon radicals. Simultaneously, the same N-aryl tetrahydroisoquinoline molecule is converted into an iminium intermediate after the XAT event, which functions as an endogenous coupling partner to capture the alkyl radicals, ultimately forming C-C bonds. This transformation proceeds under redox-neutral conditions without external XAT reagents or stoichiometric reductants.
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