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Ligand-Free Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Secondary Benzylic C—H Bonds

  • Luhua Liu ,
  • Rongrong Du ,
  • Senmiao Xu
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  • a State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000
    b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
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Received date: 2021-01-05

  Revised date: 2021-01-25

  Online published: 2021-02-22

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National Natural Science Foundation of China(21873261)

Abstract

The ligand-free regioselective iridium-catalyzed C(sp3)—H bond borylation using pyrazole as the directing group is reported. The reaction occurs smoothly at the secondary benzylic position in the presence of a catalytic amount of commercially available [Ir(OMe)(cod)]2. A variety of functionalities could be well tolerated, affording corresponding products in good to excellent yields. The pyrazole could be degraded into amide by ozonolysis.

Cite this article

Luhua Liu , Rongrong Du , Senmiao Xu . Ligand-Free Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Secondary Benzylic C—H Bonds[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 , 41(4) : 1572 -1581 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202101009

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