vinyl dichlorides and electron deficient amides as the starting material is described. In the absence of transition-metal catalyst, the reaction proceeds under mild reaction conditions in open air and thus rendering a convenient operation. This strategy is not only suitable for both terminal and internal ynamide synthesis but also amenable for large-scale preparation. Broad substrate scopes with respect
Copper-Mediated Selective Cross-Coupling of 1,1-Dibromo-1-alkenes and Heteronucleophiles: Development of General Routes to Heterosubstituted Alkynes and Alkenes
site-selective, double, or alkynylative cross-coupling, therefore providing divergent and straightforward entries to numerous building blocks such as bromoenamides, ynamides, ketene N,N-acetals, bromoenol ethers, ynol ethers, keteneO,O-acetals, or vinylphosphonates and further expanding the copper catalysis toolbox with useful and versatile processes.
Herein we describe a self-acid-enabled chemo-, regio-, and stereospecific cis-hydrophenoxylation of ynamides under reagent-free conditions. The presence of a non-polar solvent such as toluene was found to be beneficial to facilitate the rate-limiting proton transfer between phenols and ynamides to form an intimate ion pair, which is followed by a swift nucleophilic attack of the phenolate oxygen on