Chemical Science,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Radical-mediated
dearomatization
strategies
offer
a
blueprint
for
building
value-added
and
synthetically
valuable
three-dimensional
skeletons
from
readily
available
aromatic
starting
materials.
Chemical Reviews,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
123(12), P. 7655 - 7691
Published: May 3, 2023
Azines,
such
as
pyridines,
quinolines,
pyrimidines,
and
pyridazines,
are
widespread
components
of
pharmaceuticals.
Their
occurrence
derives
from
a
suite
physiochemical
properties
that
match
key
criteria
in
drug
design
is
tunable
by
varying
their
substituents.
Developments
synthetic
chemistry,
therefore,
directly
impact
these
efforts,
methods
can
install
various
groups
azine
C–H
bonds
particularly
valuable.
Furthermore,
there
growing
interest
late-stage
functionalization
(LSF)
reactions
focus
on
advanced
candidate
compounds
often
complex
structures
with
multiple
heterocycles,
functional
groups,
reactive
sites.
Because
factors
electron-deficient
nature
the
effects
Lewis
basic
N
atom,
distinct
arene
counterparts,
application
LSF
contexts
difficult.
However,
have
been
many
significant
advances
reactions,
this
review
will
describe
progress,
much
which
has
occurred
over
past
decade.
It
possible
to
categorize
radical
addition
processes,
metal-catalyzed
activation
transformations
occurring
via
dearomatized
intermediates.
Substantial
variation
reaction
within
each
category
indicates
both
rich
reactivity
heterocycles
creativity
approaches
involved.
Science,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
378(6621), P. 779 - 785
Published: Nov. 17, 2022
Carbon-hydrogen
(C−H)
functionalization
of
pyridines
is
a
powerful
tool
for
the
rapid
construction
and
derivatization
many
agrochemicals,
pharmaceuticals,
materials.
Because
inherent
electronic
properties
pyridines,
selective
meta
-C−H
challenging.
Here,
we
present
protocol
highly
regioselective
trifluoromethylation,
perfluoroalkylation,
chlorination,
bromination,
iodination,
nitration,
sulfanylation,
selenylation
through
redox-neutral
dearomatization-rearomatization
process.
The
introduced
dearomative
activation
mode
provides
diversification
platform
meta-selective
reactions
on
other
azaarenes
radical
as
well
ionic
pathways.
broad
scope
high
selectivity
these
catalyst-free
render
processes
applicable
late-stage
drugs.
Nature Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(5), P. 741 - 748
Published: Jan. 18, 2024
Abstract
Skeletal
editing
is
a
straightforward
synthetic
strategy
for
precise
substitution
or
rearrangement
of
atoms
in
core
ring
structures
complex
molecules;
it
enables
quick
diversification
compounds
that
not
possible
by
applying
peripheral
strategies.
Previously
reported
skeletal
common
arenes
mainly
relies
on
carbene-
nitrene-type
insertion
reactions
rearrangements.
Although
powerful,
efficient
and
applicable
to
late-stage
heteroarene
structure
modification,
these
strategies
cannot
be
used
pyridines.
Here
we
report
the
direct
pyridines
through
atom-pair
swap
from
CN
CC
generate
benzenes
naphthalenes
modular
fashion.
Specifically,
use
sequential
dearomatization,
cycloaddition
rearomatizing
retrocycloaddition
one-pot
sequence
transform
parent
into
bearing
diversified
substituents
at
specific
sites,
as
defined
reaction
components.
Applications
pyridine
cores
several
drugs
are
demonstrated.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
63(19)
Published: Feb. 29, 2024
Abstract
In
2001,
our
curiosity
to
understand
the
stereochemistry
of
C−H
metalation
with
Pd
prompted
first
studies
in
Pd(II)‐catalyzed
asymmetric
activation
(RSC
Research
appointment:
020
7451
2545,
Grant:
RG
36873,
Dec.
2002).
We
identified
four
central
challenges:
1.
poor
reactivity
simple
salts
native
substrates;
2.
few
strategies
control
site
selectivity
for
remote
bonds;
3.
lack
chiral
catalysts
achieve
enantioselectivity
via
metalation,
and
4.
low
practicality
due
limited
coupling
partner
scope
use
specialized
oxidants.
These
challenges
necessitated
new
catalyst
reaction
development.
For
,
we
developed
approaches
enhance
substrate–catalyst
affinity
together
novel
bifunctional
ligands
which
participate
accelerate
cleavage
step.
site‐selectivity
introduced
concept
systematically
modulating
distance
geometry
between
a
directing
template,
catalyst,
substrate
selectively
access
bonds.
devised
predictable
stereomodels
catalyst‐controlled
enantioselective
based
on
participation
ligands.
Finally,
have
varied
catalytic
manifolds
Pd(II)
accommodate
diverse
partners
while
employing
practical
oxidants
such
as
peroxides.
advances
culminated
numerous
reactions,
setting
stage
broad
industrial
applications.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
67(14), P. 11459 - 11466
Published: June 21, 2024
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Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
145(14), P. 8198 - 8208
Published: March 28, 2023
Pd(II)-catalyzed
nondirected
C-H
functionalization
of
heteroarenes
is
a
significant
challenge
for
the
following
reasons:
poor
reactivity
electron-deficient
heterocycles
and
unproductive
coordination
Lewis
basic
nitrogen
atoms.
Existing
methodologies
using
palladium
catalysis
often
employ
large
excess
heterocycle
substrates
to
overcome
these
hurdles.
Despite
recent
advances
in
arenes
that
allow
them
be
used
as
limiting
reagents,
reaction
conditions
are
incompatible
with
heteroarenes.
Herein
we
report
dual-ligand
catalyst
enables
olefination
without
substrate.
In
general,
use
1-2
equiv
was
sufficient
obtain
synthetically
useful
yields.
The
rationalized
by
synergy
between
two
types
ligands:
bidentate
pyridine-pyridone
ligand
promotes
cleavage;
monodentate
substrate
acts
second
form
cationic
Pd(II)
complex
has
high
affinity
arenes.
proposed
cooperation
supported
combination
X-ray,
kinetics,
control
experiments.