Inductive heating has emerged as a new heating technique in the laboratory, particularly when combined with miniaturized flow reactor devices. Traditionally, inductive heating is found in industrial applications like the heating of large metallic objects such as in the bending of pipes, bonding and welding. New fields of application are the preparation of nanotubes as well as hyperthermia in the treatment of cancer. This account specifically addresses the use of heatable materials such as superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in many areas of organic synthesis and how this enabling technology compares to conventional as well as microwave heating.
SummaryThe multistep flow synthesis of vinyl azides and their application in the synthesis of vinyltriazoles is reported. The synthesis relies on a stable polymer-bound equivalent of iodine azide that serves to carry out 1,2-functionalization of alkenes in a telescope flow protocol. The intermediate 2-iodo azides are subjected to a DBU-mediated polymer-supported elimination step yielding vinyl azides in good yield. The third step involves the formation of vinyl triazoles by a copper-catalyzed Huisgen-"click" cycloaddition. The required heat is generated by electromagnetic induction based on copper. Copper serves both as heatable as well as catalytically active packed-bed material inside the flow reactor.
We report the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) reaction of a variety of nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycles, including pyrazine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, quinoxaline, and benzoimidazole derivatives. The mesityl ester, whose steric bulk prevents competitive deacylation of the electrophile from "hard" nucleophiles, is introduced as a new leaving group in allylic alkylation chemistry. In contrast to our previous studies of AAA reactions with pyridine-based substrates, no precomplexation with a Lewis acid is required before deprotonation with LiHMDS, underscoring the relative acidity of these electron-deficient nucleophiles.
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