Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Copper-catalyzed dehydrogenative γ-C(sp3)-H amination of saturated ketones for synthesis of polysubstituted anilines

  • Rong Hu,
  • Fa-Jie Chen,
  • Xiaofeng Zhang,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Weiping Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11624-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Functionalising ketones at the γ-position is not a trivial synthetic task. Here, the authors developed a copper-catalyzed dehydrogenative γ-amination of saturated ketones, which can then participate in a 3-component coupling reaction to construct polysubstituted anilines.