Palladium/copper-catalyzed aerobic intermolecular cyclization of enediyne compounds and alkynes: interrupting cycloaromatization for (4 + 2) cross-benzannulation

J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Aug 6;136(31):10914-7. doi: 10.1021/ja506795u. Epub 2014 Jul 28.

Abstract

A tandem coupling-ketooxygenation reaction of readily accessible enediyne-carboxylic compounds with inner alkynes has been developed that utilizes the PdCl2/CuBr2 catalytic system under an O2 atmosphere and assembles a class of isoindolinones and o-acylbenzoic acids. The two oxygen atoms are regioselectively incorporated into enediyne units at the 1- and 6-positions from atmospheric molecular oxygen and H2O, respectively, during the present process. This study uncovered a formal [4C + 2C] benzannulation-diketonization of enediynes and alkynes via a coupling and decoupling strategy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Catalysis
  • Copper / chemistry*
  • Cyclization
  • Enediynes / chemistry*
  • Palladium / chemistry*

Substances

  • Enediynes
  • Palladium
  • Copper