Frustrated Lewis Pair Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Oxidation of Indolines and Other Heterocycles

Autor: Jan Paradies, Tobias Schneider, Alexander F. G. Maier, Sebastian Tussing, Ulrich Flörke, Stefan Grimme, Zheng-Wang Qu
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55:12219-12223
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201606426
Popis: An acceptorless dehydrogenation of heterocycles catalyzed by frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) was developed. Oxidation with concomitant liberation of molecular hydrogen proceeded in high to excellent yields for N-protected indolines as well as four other substrate classes. The mechanism of this unprecedented FLP-catalyzed reaction was investigated by mechanistic studies, characterization of reaction intermediates by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystal analysis, and by quantum-mechanical calculations. Hydrogen liberation from the ammonium hydridoborate intermediate is the rate-determining step of the oxidation. The addition of a weaker Lewis acid as a hydride shuttle increased the reaction rate by a factor of 2.28 through a second catalytic cycle.
Databáze: OpenAIRE