Dehydrogenative β-Arylation of Saturated Aldehydes Using Transient Directing Groups.

Org Lett

Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry & Materials Science , Northwest University, Xi'an 710069 , People's Republic of China.

Published: April 2019


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An unprecedented cross-dehydrogenative-coupling (CDC) reaction of saturated aldehyde β-C-H with arenes to form cinnamaldehydes via the cleavages of four C-H bonds has been developed. The reaction possesses complete E-stereoselectivity for the C═C double bond. The protocol is featured by atom and step economy, mild reaction conditions, and convenient operation.

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