Synthesis 2021; 53(22): 4213-4220
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1610779
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Special Issue dedicated to Prof. Sarah Reisman, recipient of the 2019 Dr. Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry Award

Titanium and Cobalt Bimetallic Radical Redox Relay for the Isomerization of N-Bz Aziridines to Allylic Amides

Devin P. Wood
,
Weiyang Guan
,
Song Lin
This work is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM134088).


Abstract

Herein a bimetallic radical redox-relay strategy is employed to generate alkyl radicals under mild conditions with titanium(III) catalysis and terminated via hydrogen atom transfer with cobalt(II) catalysis to enact base-free isomerizations of N-Bz aziridines to N-Bz allylic amides. This reaction provides an alternative strategy for the synthesis of allylic amides from alkenes via a three-step sequence to accomplish a formal transpositional allylic amination.

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Publication History

Received: 11 May 2021

Accepted after revision: 24 June 2021

Article published online:
29 July 2021

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