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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 22, Pages 7545-7553Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201600415
Keywords
alkenes; amination; density functional calculations; hypervalent iodine; reaction mechanisms
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- ICIQ Foundation
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- FEDER [CTQ2014-57661-R, CTQ2014-56474R, CTQ2014-59650-P]
- FEDER (Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation) [SEV-2013-0319]
- Fundacion La Caixa
- ICIQ-Severo Ochoa program [SVP-2014-068662]
- MEC
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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A computational study of the mechanism for the iodine(III)-mediated oxidative amination of alkenes explains the experimentally observed substrate dependence on product distribution. Calculations with the M06 functional have been carried out on the reaction between PhI(N(SO2Me)(2))(2) and three different representative substrates: styrene, alpha-methylstyrene, and (E)-methylstilbene. All reactions start with electrophilic attack by a cationic PhI(N(SO2Me)(2))(+) unit on the double bond, and formation of an intermediate with a single C-I bond and a planar sp(2) carbocationic center. The major path, leading to 1,2-diamination, proceeds through a mechanism in which the bissulfonimide initially adds to the alkene through an oxygen atom of one sulfonyl group. This behavior is now corroborated by experimental evidence. An alternative path, leading to an allylic amination product, takes place through deprotonation at an allylic C-H position in the common intermediate. The regioselectivity of this amination depends on the availability of the resonant structures of an alternate carbocationic intermediate. Only in cases where a high electronic delocalization is possible, as in (E)-methylstilbene, does the allylic amination occur without migration of the double bond.
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