Coupling Radical Homoallylic Expansions with C-C Fragmentations for the Synthesis of Heteroaromatics: Quinolines from Reactions of o-Alkenylarylisonitriles with Aryl, Alkyl, and Perfluoroalkyl Radicals

Christopher J. Evoniuk; Gabriel Dos Passos Gomes; Michelle Ly; Frankie D. White; Igor V. Alabugin

doi:10.1021/acs.joc.7b00262

Coupling Radical Homoallylic Expansions with C-C Fragmentations for the Synthesis of Heteroaromatics: Quinolines from Reactions of o-Alkenylarylisonitriles with Aryl, Alkyl, and Perfluoroalkyl Radicals

Christopher J. Evoniuk, Gabriel Dos Passos Gomes, Michelle Ly, Frankie D. White, Igor V. Alabugin

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Selective addition of radicals to isonitriles can be harnessed for initiating reaction cascades designed to overcome the stereoelectronic restrictions on homoallylic ring expansion in alkyne reactions and to develop a new general route for the preparation of N-heteroaromatics. This method utilizes alkenes as synthetic equivalents of alkynes by coupling homoallylic ring expansion to yield the formal "6-endo" products with aromatization via stereoelectronically assisted C-C bond scission. Computational analysis of the homoallyic expansion potential energy surface reveals that the indirect 5-exo/3-exo/retro-3-exo path is faster than the direct 6-endo-trig closure, revealing the general exo-preference for the cyclization processes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4265-4278
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume	82
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.7b00262
State	Published - Apr 21 2017
Externally published	Yes

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This study was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant CHE-1465142). We are also grateful to NSF XSEDE (TG-CHE160006) and RCC FSU for computational resources. G.d.P.G. is grateful to IBM for the 2016 IBM Ph.D Scholarship.

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Evoniuk, C. J., Gomes, G. D. P., Ly, M., White, F. D., & Alabugin, I. V. (2017). Coupling Radical Homoallylic Expansions with C-C Fragmentations for the Synthesis of Heteroaromatics: Quinolines from Reactions of o-Alkenylarylisonitriles with Aryl, Alkyl, and Perfluoroalkyl Radicals. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 82(8), 4265-4278. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.7b00262

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Coupling Radical Homoallylic Expansions with C-C Fragmentations for the Synthesis of Heteroaromatics: Quinolines from Reactions of o-Alkenylarylisonitriles with Aryl, Alkyl, and Perfluoroalkyl Radicals. / Evoniuk, Christopher J.; Gomes, Gabriel Dos Passos; Ly, Michelle et al.
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