Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 82 ›› Issue (11): 1109-1113.DOI: 10.6023/A24100329 Previous Articles     Next Articles

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可见光诱导氯化铁催化苯并噁嗪-2-酮与烷烃的脱氢偶联烷基化反应

辛翠a, 蒋俊c,d, 邓紫微a,*(), 欧丽娟b,*(), 何卫民c,*()   

  1. a 湖南警察学院 食药环及毒品检验技术湖南省普通高等学校重点实验室 长沙 410138
    b 湖南工学院 材料科学与工程学院 衡阳 421002
    c 南华大学 化学化工学院 衡阳 421001
    d 南京林业大学 林木生物质低碳高效利用国家工程研究中心 南京 210037
  • 投稿日期:2024-10-29 发布日期:2024-11-19
  • 基金资助:
    湖南省教育厅科学研究项目(22B0944)

Photoinduced FeCl3‑catalyzed Cross-Dehydrogenative Alkylation of Benzoxazin-2-ones with Alkanes

Cui Xina, Jun Jiangc,d, Zi-Wei Denga(), Li-Juan Oub(), Wei-Min Hec()   

  1. a Key Laboratory of Food & Environment & Drug Monitoring and Testing of Universities in Hunan Province, Hunan Police Academy, Changsha 410138, China
    b School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang 421002, China
    c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
    d National Engineering Research Center of Low-Carbon Processing and Utilization of Forest Biomass, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
  • Received:2024-10-29 Published:2024-11-19
  • Contact: *E-mail: 305455334@qq.com; oulijuanann@163.com; weiminhe@usc.edu.cn
  • About author:
    These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Supported by:
    Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department(22B0944)

Homogeneous visible-light photoredox catalysis has emerged as a powerful tool in modern organic synthesis, which utilizes inexhaustible light to facilitate carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond formation under eco-friendly and mild conditions. Due to the incapablity of most organic compounds to absorb visible light, homogeneous photocatalysts such as precious metals (rhodium and iridium-complexes) and elaborate organic dyes were often employed through their visible light-driven electron/energy transfer to sensitize organic molecules in photoredox catalysis. However, these photocatalysts are not conducive to large-scale production due to the relatively high cost. Iron is an ideal candidate for economical and eco-friendly catalysis because of its abundant availability and nontoxicity. Recently, iron-photocatalyzed bond formation reactions via ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) have attracted huge attention. Functionalized benzoxazin-2-ones are important N-heterocycles found in many natural products, bioactive molecules and pharmaceuticals. Among these benzoxazin-2-one derivatives, alkylated benzoxazin-2-ones have received significant attention due to their valuable biological and pharmacological activities. From a synthetic point of view, the direct C—H alkylation of benzoxazin-2-ones represents one of the most straightforward and efficient methods for producing alkylated benzoxazin-2-ones due to its high atom and step economy. Alkanes are low cost and abundant feedstock materials, which have been widely used as the alkylation reagents in organic synthesis. In the present work, we report the development of iron-catalyzed C—H alkylation of benzoxazin-2-ones with alkanes via photoinduced LMCT. With FeCl3 as the photocatalyst, ambient air as the oxidant, tetrabutylammonium chloride as the promoter, a series of 3-alkylbenzoxazin-2-ones were efficiently synthesized under mild and eco-friendly conditions. The chlorine radical generated in situ serves as a hydrogen atom-transfer reagent. In addition, the present reaction can be smoothly scaled-up to gram level, which indicates it could be applied in industrial synthesis of pharmaceuticals.

Key words: photocatalysis, alkane, benzoxazin-2-ones, alkylation, ligand-to-metal charge transfer