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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 14, Issue 24, Pages 5820-5825Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6ob00705h
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- EPSRC [EP/G036764/1]
- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1379027, EP/K03927X/1, EP/L011999/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/L011999/1, EP/K03927X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Substituted heteroaromatic compounds, especially those based on pyridine, hold a privileged position within drug discovery and medicinal chemistry. However, functionalisation of the C2 position of 6-membered heteroarenes is challenging because of (a) the difficulties of installing a halogen at this site and (b) the instability of C2 heteroaryl-metal reagents. Here we show that C2-alkenylated heteroaromatics can be accessed by simple Bronsted acid catalysed union of diverse heteroarene N-oxides with alkenes. The approach is notable because (a) it is operationally simple, (b) the Bronsted acid catalyst is cheap, nontoxic and sustainable, (c) the N-oxide activator disappears during the reaction, and (d) water is the sole stoichiometric byproduct of the process. The new protocol offers orthogonal functional group tolerance to metal-catalysed methods and can be integrated easily into synthetic sequences to provide polyfunctionalised targets. In broader terms, this study demonstrates how classical organic reactivity can still be used to provide solutions to contemporary synthetic challenges that might otherwise be approached using transition metal catalysis.
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