Photocatalytic Oxidative [2+2] Cycloelimination Reactions With Flavinium Salts: Mechanistic Study And Influence Of The Catalyst Structure
CHEMPLUSCHEM(2021)
摘要
Flavinium salts are frequently used in organocatalysis but their application in photoredox catalysis has not been systematically investigated to date. We synthesized a series of 5-ethyl-1,3-dimethylalloxazinium salts with different substituents in the positions 7 and 8 and investigated their application in light-dependent oxidative cycloelimination of cyclobutanes. Detailed mechanistic investigations with a coumarin dimer as a model substrate reveal that the reaction preferentially occurs via the triplet-born radical pair after electron transfer from the substrate to the triplet state of an alloxazinium salt. The very photostable 7,8-dimethoxy derivative is a superior catalyst with a sufficiently high oxidation power (E*=2.26 V) allowing the conversion of various cyclobutanes (with E-ox up to 2.05 V) in high yields. Even compounds such as all-trans dimethyl 3,4-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)cyclobutane-1,2-dicarboxylate can be converted, whose opening requires a high activation energy due to a missing pre-activation caused by bulky adjacent substituents in cis-position.
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cyclobutanes, cycloelimination reactions, electron transfer, photocatalysis, time-resolved spectroscopy
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