N-Aminopyridinium Salts as Precursors for N-Centered Radicals – Direct Amidation of Arenes and Heteroarenes
摘要:
Readily prepared N-aminopyridinium salts are valuable precursors for the generation of N-centered radicals. Reduction of these salts by single electron transfer allows for clean generation of amidyl radicals. It is shown that direct radical C-H amination of heteroarenes and arenes can be achieved with N-aminopyridinium salts under mild conditions by using photoredox catalysis.
In this study, a visible-light-induced intermolecular C-H bond imidation of arenes was achieved at ambient condition. By using simple phthalimide with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene and molecular iodine, direct metal-/photocatalyst-free C-N bond formation was achieved. The imidation protocol was designed by using time-dependent density functional theory calculations and experimentally demonstrated for 28 substrates