Iridium-catalyzed C-H amidation of s-tetrazines

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Apr 30;56(34):4692-4695. doi: 10.1039/d0cc01647k. Epub 2020 Mar 25.

Abstract

An efficient, selective and scalable C-H amidation of s-tetrazines under iridium(III) catalysis is reported. This reaction features a broad substrate scope, high functional group tolerance, and air and water tolerance. This reaction also shows great potential for the rapid preparation of tri- and tetra-functional building blocks, which can be applied either in bioconjugation or synthesis of DNA-encoded library.