Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Tailored cobalt-salen complexes enable electrocatalytic intramolecular allylic C–H functionalizations

  • Chen-Yan Cai,
  • Zheng-Jian Wu,
  • Ji-Ying Liu,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Jinshuai Song,
  • Hai-Chao Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24125-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Oxidative allylic C–H functionalizations minimise the need for functional group activation and generate alkenyl-substituted products amenable to further chemical modifications. Here the authors report an oxidant-free, electrocatalytic approach to achieve intramolecular oxidative allylic C–H amination and alkylation by employing tailored cobalt-salen complexes as catalysts.