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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 713-718Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5sc03510d
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- Royal Institute of Technology
- National Institutes of Health [R01GM080295]
- China Scholarship Council
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Aryl amides have been used as important compounds in pharmaceuticals, materials and in molecular catalysis. The methods reported to prepare aryl amides generally require very specific reagents, and the most popular carboxyl-amine coupling reactions demand stoichiometric activators. Herein, we report that aryl azides react with aldehydes under base-catalyzed conditions to yield aryl amides efficiently. Mechanistic investigations support the formation of triazoline intermediates via azide-enolate cycloaddition, which subsequently undergo rearrangement to give amides by either thermal decomposition (20-140 degrees C) or aqueous acid work-up at room temperature. The strategy does not require nucleophilic anilines and is especially efficient for highly electron-deficient aryl amides, including perfluoroaryl amides, which are otherwise challenging to synthesize.
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