A General Light-Driven Organocatalytic Platform for the Activation of Inert Substrates
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)(2023)
摘要
Due to their strong covalent bonds and low reduction potentials, activating inert substrates is challenging. Recent advances in photoredox catalysis offered a number of solutions, each of which useful for activating specific inert bonds. Developing a general catalytic platform that can consistently target a broad range of inert substrates would be synthetically useful. Herein, we report a readily available indole thiolate organocatalyst that, upon excitation with 405 nm light, acquires a strongly reducing power. This excited-state reactivity served to activate, by single-electron reduction, strong C-F, C-Cl, and C-O bonds in both aromatic and aliphatic substrates. This catalytic platform was versatile enough to promote the reduction of generally recalcitrant electron-rich substrates (E-red<-3.0 V vs SCE), including arenes that afforded 1,4-cyclohexadienes. The protocol was also useful for the borylation and phosphorylation of inert substrates with a high functional group tolerance. Mechanistic studies identified an excited-state thiolate anion as responsible of the highly reducing reactivity.
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Radical Chemistry,Organocatalysis,Photocatalysis,Reaction Mechanisms,Reductions
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