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Skeletal editing has received unprecedented attention as an emerging technology for the late-stage manipulation of molecular scaffolds. The direct achievement of functionalized carbon-atom insertion in aromatic rings is challenging. Despite ring-expanding carbon-atom insertion reactions, such as the Ciamician-Dennstedt re-arrangement, being performed for more than 140 years, only a few relevant examples of such transformations have been reported, with these limited to the installation of halogen, ester and phenyl groups. Here we describe a photoredox-enabled functionalized carbon-atom insertion reaction into indene. We disclose the utilization of a radical carbyne precursor that facilitates the insertion of carbon atoms bearing a variety of functional groups, including trifluoromethyl, ester, phosphate ester, sulfonate ester, sulfone, nitrile, amide, aryl ketone and aliphatic ketone fragments to access a library of 2-substituted naphthalenes. The application of this methodology to the skeletal editing of molecules of pharmaceutical relevance highlights its utility.
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