A dual biomimetic process for the selective aerobic oxidative coupling of primary amines using pyrogallol as a precatalyst. Isolation of the [5 + 2] cycloaddition redox intermediates

Autor: M.B. Fleury, Karim Hammad, Martine Largeron, Patrick Deschamps
Přispěvatelé: Cibles Thérapeutiques et conception de médicaments (CiTCoM - UMR 8038), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Green Chemistry
Green Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, 22 (6), pp.1894-1905. ⟨10.1039/c9gc03992a⟩
Green Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, ⟨10.1039/c9gc03992a⟩
ISSN: 1463-9262
1463-9270
DOI: 10.1039/c9gc03992a⟩
Popis: International audience; A bioinspired organocatalytic cascade reaction mimicking both purpurogallin biosynthesis and copper amine oxidases (CuAOs) activity is described, at room temperature under ambient air, for the activation of the α-C–H bond of primary amines. The reaction sequence uses low-cost commercially available pyrogallol as a precatalyst which undergoes an in situ oxidative self-processing step, resulting in its conversion into natural purpurogallin, a [5 + 2] cycloaddition redox intermediate. This is further involved in the CuAOs-like transamination mechanism for producing, under single turnover, the active biomimetic organocatalyst which mediates the selective oxidative coupling of primary amines, including the non-activated substrates of CuAOs. Without any metal cocatalyst or additives, the protocol gives access to cross-coupled imines as well as 1,2-disubstituted benzimidazoles. The isolation of not easily accessible [5 + 2] cycloaddition redox intermediates provides direct and clear evidence for the proposed dual biomimetic process.
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