217074-77-6Relevant articles and documents
Chromium-Catalyzed Selective Cross-Electrophile Coupling between Unactivated C(aryl)-F and C(aryl)-O Bonds
Fan, Fei,Zhao, Lixing,Luo, Meiming,Zeng, Xiaoming
, p. 561 - 568 (2022/03/15)
Chemically inert C(aryl)-F bonds have rarely been used to couple with other unactivated bonds, and this remains a challenge because of the difficulty of the successive cleavage of two unactivated bonds by metal catalysis. We report here the chromium-catalyzed cleavage of chemically inert C(aryl)-F bonds for coupling with unactivated C(aryl)-O bonds, allowing cross-electrophile coupling between unreactive aryl fluorides and aryl esters to be achieved in high regio- and chemoselectivity. The reactive Cr, which was formed in situ by reducing CrCl2, enables cleavage of the o-C(aryl)-F bonds to afford monovalent and quartet cyclochromate; subsequent bipyridyl-enabled insertion into the ester C(aryl)-O bond followed by reductive elimination allowed the orthogonal coupling of these two different and unactivated bonds. Mechanistic studies indicate that the bipyridyl ligand greatly enhances the reactivity of Cr in the cleavage of C(aryl)-O bonds, and the second oxidative addition may occur sluggishly compared with the reductive elimination in the catalytic cycle.
Chemoselective Cross-Coupling between Two Different and Unactivated C(aryl)-O Bonds Enabled by Chromium Catalysis
Tang, Jinghua,Liu, Liu Leo,Yang, Shangru,Cong, Xuefeng,Luo, Meiming,Zeng, Xiaoming
supporting information, p. 7715 - 7720 (2020/05/20)
We report here the first example of cross-coupling between two different and unactivated C(aryl)-O bonds with chromium catalysis. The combination of a low-cost Cr(II) salt, 4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-dipyridyl (dtbpy) as the ligand, and magnesium as the reductant shows high reactivity in promoting the reductive cross-coupling of aryl methyl ether derivatives with aryl esters by cleavage and coupling of two different C(aryl)-O bonds under mild conditions. The formation of active low-valent Cr species by reduction of CrCl2 with Mg can be considered, which prefers to initially activate the C(aryl)-O bond of phenyl methyl ether with the chelation help of dtbpy and an o-imine auxiliary. The subsequent consecutive reduction, second C(aryl)-O activation, and reductive elimination allow for the achievement of selective cross-coupling of C(aryl)-O/C(aryl)-O bonds.
