Practical Singly and Doubly Electrophilic Aminating Agents: A New, More Sustainable Platform for Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation

Padmanabha V. Kattamuri, Jun Yin, Surached Siriwongsup, Doo Hyun Kwon, Daniel H. Ess, Qun Li, Guigen Li, Muhammed Yousufuddin, Paul F. Richardson, Scott C. Sutton, László Kürti

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Abstract

Given the importance of amines in a large number of biologically active natural products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, agrochemicals, and functional materials, the development of efficient C-N bond-forming methods with wide substrate scope continues to be at the frontier of research in synthetic organic chemistry. Here, we present a general and fundamentally new synthetic approach for the direct, transition-metal-free preparation of symmetrical and unsymmetrical diaryl-, arylalkyl-, and dialkylamines that relies on the facile single or double addition of readily available C-nucleophiles to the nitrogen atom of bench-stable electrophilic aminating agents. Practical single and double polarity reversal (i.e., umpolung) of the nitrogen atom is achieved using sterically and electronically tunable ketomalonate-derived imines and oximes. Overall, this novel approach represents an operationally simple, scalable, and environmentally friendly alternative to transition-metal-catalyzed C-N cross-coupling methods that are currently used to access structurally diverse secondary amines.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)11184-11196
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume139
Issue number32
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 16 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Catalysis
  • General Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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