Photocatalytic Cyclization/Defluorination Domino Sequence to Access 3-Fluoro-1,5-dihydro-2 H-pyrrol-2-one Scaffold

Org Lett. 2021 Jun 18;23(12):4754-4758. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01477. Epub 2021 Jun 1.

Abstract

We herein report an unprecedented photoinduced cyclization/defluorination domino process of N-allylbromodifluoroacetamide with cyclic secondary amines. Consequently, a wide array of valuable 3-fluoro-1,5-dihydro-2H-pyrrol-2-ones were facilely prepared from readily available starting materials under mild conditions. Preliminary mechanistic investigations suggest that a radical chain propagation and amine-promoted defluorination pathway are presumably involved in this transformation.