A rhodium-catalyzed C–H functionalization with activated amides by decarbonylation has been developed. Notably, this is the first C–H arylation employing N-acylsaccharins as coupling partners to give biaryls in good to excellent yields. The highlight of the work is the high tolerance of functional groups such as formyl, ester, and vinyl and the use of a removable directing group.
coupled with aryl bromides in the presence of an iron catalyst, metallic magnesium, a diamine ligand and an organic dihalide oxidant at 0 °C. The use of a 1:1 mixture of tetrahydrofuran and 1,4‐dioxane is essential for this CH bond activation reaction. The reaction has wider scope of the substrate compared with the reaction using a separately prepared Grignard reagent, and proceeds with lower catalyst
catalytic reactions using transition metals is an important challenge in organic chemistry in which the intermediates are related to those produced in the classical cross-couplingreactions. As part of our research program devoted to the development of metal-catalyzed reactions using indium organometallics, a protocol for the C⁻H activation and C⁻C coupling of 2-arylpyridines with triorganoindium reagents
New multipurpose arylation/acylation/transaminationreagents, N‐acylisatins, have been developed by selective ‘inside‐outside’ C−Nbondcleavage under different catalytic conditions. As activated amides, N‐acylisatins undergo Rh‐catalyzed C−H arylation and Pd‐catalyzed acylation by cleavage outside the C−Nbond, and the desired biaryls and diaryl ketones were obtained in good to excellent yields. Generally
arylation of C–H bonds is in principle a powerful way of preparing value-added molecules that contain carbon–aryl fragments. Unfortunately, currently available synthetic methods are not sufficiently effective to be practical alternatives to conventional cross-coupling reactions. We propose that the main problem lies in the late portion of the catalytic cycle where reductiveelimination gives the desired