Accounts of Chemical Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 27, 2025
ConspectusStable and inert C-C bonds form the fundamental framework of organic compounds. Consequently, direct transformations involving bond cleavage present an innovative approach for rapid modification remodeling molecular skeletons. In recent years, concept skeletal editing has garnered widespread attention been significantly developed, providing new opportunities late-stage bioactive molecules, high-value transformation bulk chemicals, a revolution in traditional fragment coupling strategies chemical synthesis. Notable advancements this field have focused on cyclic including ring expansion, contraction, ring-opening reactions, thereby enriching synthetic toolbox available to chemists. However, selective remains formidable challenge, especially complex due high dissociation energy difficulty achieving precise selectivity control. Over past few our group made efforts address these challenges. We demonstrated potential molecule reactions as efficient strategy synthesis molecules.Herein, we two major thematic achieved by group, utilizing cascade activation entropy-driven reconstruction via cleavage. These are characterized mild conditions, accessibility catalysts reagents, exceptional functional compatibility, emerging novel approaches through atom-incorporation mainly nitrogenation, oxygenation, halogenation synthesize pharmaceuticals, natural products, material molecules. (1) Ring expansion reactions: developed that enable insertion C-, N-, O-containing units into rings. methodologies offer practical routes synthesizing amides, amines, lactones, nitrogen-containing heterocycles. (2) Ring-opening enables construction distally difunctionalized frameworks. By transition metal catalysis radical-mediated process, successfully both single C═C double within Furthermore, tackled highly challenging arene (ARO) reaction, enabling stereoselective conjugated systems unsaturation liberation aromatic systems. Mechanistic studies DFT calculations provided critical insights processes. also identified key intermediates involved cleavage, benzyl azide, O-acetyl hydroxylamine, β-azido peroxyl radical, copper bisnitrene, 2-nitrene indazole. findings deepened understanding mechanisms strategy, which further promoted discovery related acyclic substrates.
Язык: Английский