Molecular Oxygen-Promoted General and Site-Specific Alkylation with Organoboronic Acid

J Org Chem. 2018 Dec 7;83(23):14489-14497. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02277. Epub 2018 Nov 28.

Abstract

A general alkylating method using organoboronic acid under 1 atm of oxygen is developed. It allows a facile access to a wide range of functionalized molecules with privileged scaffolds in drugs and natural products such as oxindoles, quinolinones, chromones, naphthoquinones, coumarins, and quinolones. In contrast to previous alkylation approaches that generally requiring transition-metal catalysis and a stoichiometric chemical oxidant, the present strategy features metal-free, molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant and site specificity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't