Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions

Katie J Emery; Tell Tuttle; John A Murphy

doi:10.1039/c7ob02209c

Evidence of single electron transfer from the enolate anion of an N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine additive in BHAS coupling reactions

Org Biomol Chem. 2017 Oct 25;15(41):8810-8819. doi: 10.1039/c7ob02209c.

Authors

Katie J Emery¹, Tell Tuttle, John A Murphy

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G1 1XL, UK. John.Murphy@strath.ac.uk Tell.tuttle@strath.ac.uk.

PMID: 29022630
DOI: 10.1039/c7ob02209c

Abstract

A designed N,N'-dialkyldiketopiperazine (DKP) provides evidence for the role of DKP additives as initiators that act by electron transfer in base-induced homolytic aromatic substitution reactions, involving coupling of haloarenes to arenes.