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SUBMITTER: Rafferty SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8588569 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rafferty Sean M SM Rutherford Joy E JE Zhang Lumin L Wang Lu L Nagib David A DA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20210408 15
A cross-selective aza-pinacol coupling of aldehydes and imines has been developed to afford valuable β-amino alcohols. This strategy enables chemoselective conversion of aliphatic aldehydes to ketyl radicals, in the presence of more easily reduced imines and other functional groups. Upon carbonyl-specific activation by AcI, a photoinitiated Mn catalyst selectively reduces the resulting α-oxy iodide by an atom transfer mechanism. The ensuing ketyl radical selectively couples to imines, precluding ...[more]