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Transition Metal-Catalyzed Regio-selective Aromatic C—H Bond Oxidation for C—O Bond Formation

  • Yang Fanzhi ,
  • Zhang Han ,
  • Liu Xuri ,
  • Wang Bo ,
  • Ackermann Lutz
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  • a Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
    b School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081 China;
    c Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen 37077 Germany

Received date: 2018-08-16

  Revised date: 2018-10-22

  Online published: 2018-10-26

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21801018) and the Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars (No. 1230011181807).

Abstract

Recent years the great progress in transition metal-catalyzed direct aromatic C—H oxidation has been witnessed, which has been utilized in the preparation of various phenolic compounds. These transformations employ inter alia palladium, copper, ruthenium, iridium, etc. as the transition metal catalysts, and hypervalent iodine, persulfate, or oxygen as the oxidants. There have been several reviews in which the C—H oxidations with specific transition metal or oxidant was discussed. This review focuses specifically on transition metal-catalyzed aromatic C—H oxidations with ortho-, meta-, or para-selectivity, and rationalizes the possible generation mechanism of regio-selectivities, which might be controlled by the directing group via chelation-assistance, the ligand, or intrinsic properties of the substrate. The discussion section indicated the existing problems of transition metal-catalyzed aromatic C—H oxidations, as well as the possible limiting factors for the development and application of this strategy.

Cite this article

Yang Fanzhi , Zhang Han , Liu Xuri , Wang Bo , Ackermann Lutz . Transition Metal-Catalyzed Regio-selective Aromatic C—H Bond Oxidation for C—O Bond Formation[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 , 39(1) : 59 -73 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201808017

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