Photoinduced Vinylogous Dearomatization

Org Lett. 2023 May 5;25(17):3114-3119. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c00966. Epub 2023 Apr 25.

Abstract

The first vinylogous dearomatization is reported. Under a photoinduced platform, various benzothiophenes functionalized by ketones at the 3-position could react with 3-methylenechroman-4-ones efficiently, leading to a variety of valuable products that contain the pharmaceutically significant chromones and 2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]thiophenes concurrently. The transformations were revealed to experience hydrogen-atom transfer, dearomatization, olefin migration, and radical cross coupling.