A selenium-catalysed para-amination of phenols

Dingyuan Yan; Guoqiang Wang; Feng Xiong; Wei-Yin Sun; Zhuangzhi Shi; Yi Lu; Shuhua Li; Jing Zhao

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06763-4

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

A selenium-catalysed para-amination of phenols

Dingyuan Yan,
Guoqiang Wang,
Feng Xiong,
Wei-Yin Sun,
Zhuangzhi Shi,
Yi Lu,
Shuhua Li,
Jing Zhao

Affiliations

Dingyuan Yan: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
Guoqiang Wang: Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
Feng Xiong: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
Wei-Yin Sun: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
Zhuangzhi Shi: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
Yi Lu: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University
Shuhua Li: Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University
Jing Zhao: State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06763-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Selenium has emerged as a metalloid for the catalytic construction of C–N bonds; however no functionalisation of aromatic compounds has been developed yet. Here, the authors report the para-amination of phenols via two successive sigmatropic rearrangements of a redox versatile Se–N bond.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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