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The emerging field of photoredox catalysis in mammalian cells enables spatiotemporal regulation of a wealth of biological processes. However, the selective cleavage of stable covalent bonds driven by low-energy visible light remains a great challenge. Herein, we report that red light excitation of a commercially available dye, abbreviated NMB+, leads to catalytic cleavage of stable azo bonds in both aqueous solutions and hypoxic cells and hence a means to photodeliver drugs or functional molecules. Detailed mechanistic studies reveal that azo bond cleavage is triggered by a previously unknown consecutive two-photon process. The first photon generates a triplet excited state, 3NMB+*, that is reductively quenched by an electron donor to generate a protonated NMBHâ¢+. The NMBHâ¢+ undergoes a disproportionation reaction that yields the initial NMB+ and two-electron-reduced NMBH (i.e., leuco-NMB, abbreviated as LNMB). Interestingly, LNMB forms a charge transfer complex with all four azo substrates that possess an intense absorption band in the red region. A second red photon induces electron transfer from LNMB to the azo substrate, resulting in azo bond cleavage. The charge transfer complex mediated two-photon catalytic mechanism reported herein is reminiscent of the flavin-dependent natural photoenzyme that catalyzes bond cleavage reactions with high-energy photons. The red-light-driven photocatalytic strategy offers a new approach to bioorthogonal azo bond cleavage for photodelivery of drugs or functional molecules.
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ConspectusC-C single bonds are ubiquitous in organic compounds. The activation and subsequent functionalization of C-C single bonds provide a unique opportunity to synthesize conventionally inaccessible molecules through the rearrangement of carbon skeletons, often with a favorable atom and step economy. However, the C-C bonds are thermodynamically and kinetically inert. Consequently, the activation of C-C bonds is particularly attractive yet challenging in the field of organic chemistry. In the past decade, we sought to develop efficient strategies to carry out transition-metal-catalyzed diverse C-C cleavage/C-C forming reactions and to obtain some insights into the intrinsic reactivities of different C-C bonds. With our efforts, readily available alcohols, carboxylic acids, and ketones served as suitable substrates for the catalytic C-C coupling reactions, which are reviewed in this Account. In 2009, we observed a Ni-catalyzed cross coupling of aryl nitriles with arylboronic esters through C-CN cleavage. Encouraged by these results, we are interested in transition-metal-catalyzed C-C bond activation. Due to their broad availability, we then turned our attention to C-C cleavage of carboxylic acids. Rhodium-catalyzed decarbonylative coupling of carboxylic acids with (hetero)arenes was then achieved through oxidative addition of in situ formed, more reactive mixed anhydrides to Rh(I) without the need for oxidants that are commonly required for the decarboxylative coupling of carboxylic acids. Subsequently, the decarbonylation of more challenging unstrained aryl ketones was realized under Rh catalysis assisted by N-containing directing groups. Following this work, a group exchange of aryl ketones with carboxylic acids was achieved through 2-fold C-C bond cleavage. By employing the chelation strategy, Rh-catalyzed C-C bond activation of secondary benzyl alcohols was also accomplished through ß-carbon elimination of the rhodium alcoholate intermediates. The competing oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones via ß-hydrogen elimination of the same intermediates was suppressed as thermodynamically favorable five-membered rhodacycles are formed after ß-carbon elimination. Different types of transformations of alcohols, including the Heck-type reaction with alkenes, cross coupling with arylsilanes, and Grignard-type addition with aldehydes or imines, have been achieved, showing the great potential of secondary alcohols in the formation of C-C bonds. These C-C bond-forming reactions are complementary to traditional cross couplings of aryl halides with organometallic reagents. However, these transformations produce small molecules as byproducts. To improve the atom economy, we then investigated C-C bond transformations of strained-ring cyclic compounds. Ni-catalyzed intermolecular cyclization of benzocyclobutenones with alkynes was recently achieved via the uncommon cleavage of the C1-C8 bond by employing a removable blocking strategy. Rh-catalyzed intramolecular annulation of benzocyclobutenols with alkynes was also achieved. In summary, our developments demonstrate the great potential of transition-metal-catalyzed C-C bond activation for the formation of new C-C bonds. To further expand the synthetic utility of C-C bond activation, more efforts are required to expand the substrate scope and to achieve earth-abundant metal-catalyzed transformations.
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The activation of dinitrogen (N2) and direct incorporation of its N atom into C-H bonds to create aliphatic C-N compounds remains unresolved. Incompatible conditions between dinitrogen reduction and C-H functionalization make this process extremely challenging. Herein, we report the first example of dinitrogen insertion into an aliphatic Csp3-H bond on the ligand scaffold of a 1,3-propane-bridged [N2N]2--type dititanium complex. Mechanistic investigations on the behaviors of dinuclear and mononuclear Ti complexes indicated the intramolecular synergistic effect of two Ti centers at a C-N bond-forming step. Computational studies revealed the critical isomerization between the inactive side-on N2 complex and the active nitridyl complex, which is responsible for the Csp3-H amination. This strategy maps an efficient route toward the future synthesis of aliphatic amines directly from N2.
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Derived from structurally similar precursors, two different azidodiboranes went through distinct aryl migration reactions triggered by different boron-boron separation distances. Biphenylene based diborane with a shorter boron-boron distance underwent heterolateral aryl migration to form a seven-membered azadiborepin, while xanthrene based diborane with a longer boron-boron distance afforded a stable bis-azidoborane scaffold. The pyrolysis of such a bis-azidoborane led to eight-membered oxazadiborocine through homolateral aryl migration and subsequent [3+2] cycloaddition. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations unveiled that the boron-boron separation distances were the intrinsic factors for the distinct migrations.
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The general strategies to stabilize a boryl radical involve single electron delocalization by π-system and the steric hinderance from bulky groups. Herein, a new class of boryl radicals is reported, with intramolecular mixed-valent B(III) Br-B(II) adducts ligated by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC). The radicals feature a large spin density on the boron center, which is ascertained by EPR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Structural and computational analyses revealed that the stability of radical species was assisted by the CAAC ligand and a weak but significant B(III)Br-B(II) interaction, suggesting a cooperative avenue for stabilization of boryl radicals. Two-electron reduction of these new boryl radicals provides C-H insertion products via a borylene intermediate.
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Nitrogen fixation is essential for the maintenance of life and development of society, however, the large bond dissociation energy and nonpolarity of the triple bond constitute a considerable challenge. The transition metals, by virtue of their combination of empty and occupied d orbitals, are prevalent in the nitrogen fixation studies and are continuing to receive a significant focus. The main group metals have always been considered incapable in dinitrogen activation owing to the absence of energetically and symmetrically accessible orbitals. The past decades have witnessed significant breakthroughs in the dinitrogen activation with the main group elements and compounds via either matrix isolation, theoretical calculations or synthetic chemistry. The successful reactions of the low-valent species of the main group elements with inert dinitrogen have been reported via the π back-donation from either the d orbitals (Ca, Sr, Ba) or p orbitals (Be, B, C ). Herein, the significant achievements have been briefly summarized, along with predicting the future developments.
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Fixação de Nitrogênio , Elementos de Transição , Ligantes , Metais/química , Elementos de Transição/químicaRESUMO
Splitting of N2 via six-electron reduction and further functionalization to value-added products is one of the most important and challenging chemical transformations in N2 fixation. However, most N2 splitting approaches rely on strong chemical or electrochemical reduction to generate highly reactive metal species to bind and activate N2, which is often incompatible with functionalizing agents. Catalytic and sustainable N2 splitting to produce metal nitrides under mild conditions may create efficient and straightforward methods for N-containing organic compounds. Herein, we present that a readily available and nonredox (n-Bu)4NBr can promote N2-splitting with a Mo(III) platform. Both experimental and theoretical mechanistic studies suggest that simple X- (X = Br, Cl, etc.) anions could induce the disproportionation of MoIII[N(TMS)Ar]3 at the early stage of the catalysis to generate a catalytically active {MoII[N(TMS)Ar]3}- species. The quintet MoII species prove to be more favorable for N2 fixation kinetically and thermodynamically, compared with the quartet MoIII counterpart. Especially, computational studies reveal a distinct heterovalent {MoII-N2-MoIII} dimeric intermediate for the N≡N triple bond cleavage.
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Elétrons , Molibdênio , Catálise , Molibdênio/químicaRESUMO
Controlling the chemo- and regioselectivity of transition-metal-catalyzed C-C activation remains a great challenge. The transformations of benzocyclobutenones (BCBs) usually involve the cleavage of C1-C2 bond. In this work, an unprecedented highly selective cleavage of C1-C8 bond with the insertion of alkynes is achieved by using blocking strategy via Ni catalysis, providing an efficient method for synthesis of 1,8-disubstituted naphthalenes. Notably, the blocking group could be readily removed after the transformation.
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Transition-metal catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have emerged as a powerful tool for constructing biaryl compounds. Aryl halides and aryl metallic reagents (typically prepared from aryl halides) are used as coupling partners. It would be desirable to replace either aryl halide or aryl metallic reagents used in cross-couplings reactions with more readily available surrogates. Oxidative dehydrogenative cross-coupling between two different "inert" aryl C-H bonds represents an ideal system that would revolutionize cross-coupling chemistry. Furthermore, cross-coupling reactions might be improved by developing new catalytic protocols based on cheap transition-metal catalysts or even transition-metal-free systems to decrease costs and avoid the use of heavy metal and noble transition metals. It would be desirable to promote both catalytic systems and replace either or both coupling partners. We have used different strategies to improve cross-coupling reactions for constructing biaryls, which we categorized into four groups as follows. First, we focused on developing methodologies to be applied to easily produced and naturally abundant arenol-based electrophiles in cross-coupling via C-O activation. We have extended coupling partners to aryl carboxylates and arenols. Direct application of arenes as surrogates for organohalides and organometallic reagents avoids the tedious preparation of these reagents from arenes and considerably reduces the cost of starting materials. We have also explored cross-coupling reactions of arenes with various organometallic reagents, such as arylboronic acids, arylsilanes, and aryl Grignard reagents. Second, we summarize oxidative cross-coupling reactions based on C-H activation with aryl metallic reagents. On the basis of the reactivity patterns of different organometallic reagents, we adapted different catalytic systems to achieve effective cross-coupling reactions. Third, we improved a well-developed cross-coupling between arenes and organohalides through a strategy of replacing one coupling partner and using a new catalytic system. We have applied earth-abundant transition metals, such as Fe, and Co, and even developed transition-metal-free catalytic systems. Finally, our ultimate goal is to construct biaryls by cross dehydrogenative arylation between two different arenes. Owing to the structural similarity of both arenes, in particular two substituted benzenes, the greatest challenges are not only achieving regio- and chemo-selective C-H activation reactions but also matching both the reactivities and selectivities of both substrates to avoid homocouplings of either arene. Through our efforts, we have developed and applied four different strategies by introducing directing groups, controlling electronic and steric properties, and using dual directing strategies. We hope our studies will stimulate interest and new thinking on cross-couplings reactions for building carbon-carbon bonds from readily available and inexpensive chemicals from basic petroleum chemistry and nature.
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The cleavage of C-C bonds has been a great challenge owing to their thermodynamic and kinetic stability. To date, the progress made in this area has mainly relied on the reaction of small rings, which is driven by releasing ring strain. Encouragingly, more and more examples of the cleavage of non-strained C-C bonds have been reported. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the transition-metal-catalyzed C-C bond activation of relatively stable and unstrained molecules that involves the formation of organometallic intermediates. In the first section we focus on the C-C bond activation achieved through ß-carbon elimination, and in the second section the oxidative addition of the C-C bond to low-valent metal is summarized in detail.
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Herein, we reported a successful Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of dimethyl aryl amines to forge biaryl skeleton via Ni catalysis in the absence of directing groups and preactivation. This transformation proceeded with high efficiency in the presence of magnesium. Preliminary mechanism studies demonstrated dual roles of magnesium: (i) a reductant that reduced Ni(II) species to active Ni(I) catalyst; (ii) a unique promoter that facilitated the Ni(I)/Ni(III) catalytic cycle.
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In this article a successful protocol was developed to construct carbon-carbon bonds by the extrusion of the O atom of ethers via nickel catalysis in the presence of reductants. This methodology is featured as a highly economic route to construct sp3-sp3 C-C bonds through dual C-O activation of ethers with good functional group tolerance.
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The borylation of C-H bonds catalyzed by transition metals has been investigated extensively in the past two decades, but no iridium-catalyzed enantioselective borylation of C-H bonds has been reported. We report a set of iridium-catalyzed enantioselective borylations of aromatic C-H bonds. This reaction relies on a set of newly developed chiral quinolyl oxazoline ligands. This process proceeds under mild conditions with good to excellent enantioselectivity, and the borylated products can be converted to enantioenriched derivatives containing new C-O, C-C, C-Cl, or C-Br bonds.
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Compostos de Boro/química , Nitrogênio/química , Catálise , Hidroquinonas/química , Irídio/química , Ligantes , Estrutura Molecular , Oxazóis/química , EstereoisomerismoRESUMO
Iridium catalysts containing dative nitrogen ligands are highly active for the borylation and silylation of C-H bonds, but chiral analogs of these catalysts for enantioselective silylation reactions have not been developed. We report a new chiral pyridinyloxazoline ligand for enantioselective, intramolecular silylation of symmetrical diarylmethoxy diethylsilanes. Regioselective and enantioselective silylation of unsymmetrical substrates was also achieved in the presence of this newly developed system. Preliminary mechanistic studies imply that C-H bond cleavage is irreversible, but not the rate-determining step.
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Irídio/química , Nitrogênio/química , Oxazóis/química , Silanos/síntese química , Catálise , Ligantes , Estrutura Molecular , Silanos/química , EstereoisomerismoRESUMO
Activation of inert chemical bonds, such as C-H, C-O, C-C, and so on, is a very important area, to which has been drawn much attention by chemists for a long time and which is viewed as one of the most ideal ways to produce valuable chemicals. Under modern chemical bond activation logic, many conventionally viewed "inert" chemical bonds that were intact under traditional conditions can be reconsidered as novel functionalities, which not only avoids the tedious synthetic procedures for prefunctionalizations and the emission of undesirable wastes but also inspires chemists to create novel synthetic strategies in completely different manners. Although activation of "inert" chemical bonds using stoichiometric amounts of transition metals has been reported in the past, much more attractive and challenging catalytic transformations began to blossom decades ago. Compared with the broad application of late and noble transition metals in this field, the earth-abundant first-row transition-metals, such as Fe, Co, and Ni, have become much more attractive, due to their obvious advantages, including high abundance on earth, low price, low or no toxicity, and unique catalytic characteristics. In this Account, we summarize our recent efforts toward Fe, Co, and Ni catalyzed "inert" chemical bond activation. Our research first unveiled the unique catalytic ability of iron catalysts in C-O bond activation of both carboxylates and benzyl alcohols in the presence of Grignard reagents. The benzylic C-H functionalization was also developed via Fe catalysis with different nucleophiles, including both electron-rich arenes and 1-aryl-vinyl acetates. Cobalt catalysts also showed their uniqueness in both aromatic C-H activation and C-O activation in the presence of Grignard reagents. We reported the first cobalt-catalyzed sp(2) C-H activation/arylation and alkylation of benzo[h]quinoline and phenylpyridine, in which a new catalytic pathway via an oxidative addition process was demonstrated to be much preferable. Another interesting discovery was the Co-catalyzed magnesiation of benzylic alcohols in the presence of different Grignard reagents, which proceeded via Co-mediated selective C-O bond activation. In C-O activation, Ni catalysts were found to be most powerful, showing the high efficacy in different kinds of couplings starting form "inert" O-based electrophiles. In addition, Ni catalysts exhibited their power in C-H and C-C activation, which have been proven by us and pioneers in this field. Notably, our developments indicated that the catalytic efficacy in cross coupling between aryl bromides and arenes under mild conditions was not the privilege of several noble metals; most of the transition metals exhibited credible catalytic ability, including Fe, Co, and Ni. We hope our studies inspire more interest in the development of first row transition metal-catalyzed inert chemical bond functionalization.
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Ir-catalyzed sp2 C-H amidation of aldehydes with various anilines as stoichiometric or catalytic directing groups was accomplished. A wide range of substrates were selectively amidated in good to excellent yields with broad functional group tolerance. The iridacycle complexes were isolated, characterized, and proved as key intermediates. Kinetic studies and Hammett plots provided detailed understandings of this amidation. According to the mechanism, the electron-rich ArSO2 N3 was proved effective for intermolecular sp3 C-H amidation.
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A copper-catalyzed intramolecular amidation of unactivated C(sp(3) )-H bonds to construct indoline derivatives has been developed. Such an amidation proceeded well at primary C-H bonds preferred to secondary C-H bonds. The transformation owned a broad substrate scope. The corresponding indolines were obtained in good to excellent yields. N-Formal and other carbonyl groups were suitable and were easily deprotected and transformed into methyl or long-chained alkyl groups. Preliminary mechanistic studies suggested a radical pathway.
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Selective cleavage of an inert C-C bond followed by C-O/N bond formation through a long-distance aryl migration from a carbon to a nitrogen center via Ag catalysis is reported. The migration products were easily converted into γ-hydroxy amines and tetrahydroquinoline derivatives in quantitative yields. Preliminary mechanistic studies indicated a radical pathway.
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The Rh(I)-catalyzed direct reorganization of organic frameworks and group exchanges between carboxylic acids and aryl ketones was developed with the assistance of directing group. Biaryls, alkenylarenes, and alkylarenes were produced in high efficiency from aryl ketones and the corresponding carboxylic acids by releasing the other molecule of carboxylic acids and carbon monoxide. A wide range of functional groups were well compatible. The exchanges between two partners were proposed to take place on the Rh-(III) center of key intermediates, supported by experimental mechanistic studies and computational calculations. The transformation unveiled the new catalytic pathway of the group transfer of two organic molecules.
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Carbono/química , Ácidos Carboxílicos/química , Cetonas/química , Compostos Organometálicos/química , Ródio/química , Catálise , Estrutura MolecularRESUMO
A novel bidentate α-amino oxazolinyl directing group has been developed. Different from previous directing groups, this newly designed directing group was easily prepared from amino acids and modified in structure. This auxiliary preferentially effects functionalization at secondary C(sp(3) )-H bonds, rather than at aryl C(sp(2) )-H bonds. The diastereoselectivity of direct arylation between geminal secondary C(sp(3) )-H bonds in linear molecules has also been realized for the first time with a chiral directing group by remote chirality relay. Two diastereoisomers are produced with the same chiral source by changing the substituents of substrates and aryl halides.