We have developed a convenient and efficient method for coupling of tertiary aliphatic amines with terminal alkynes to propargylamines via C-H activation. The protocol uses CuBr as the catalyst, NBS as the free radical initiator, CH(3)CN as the solvent, and the alkynylation was selectively performed on the methyl of tertiary aliphatic amines at 80 degrees C. This is an economical and practical method for the synthesis of propargylamines.
We have developed efficient copper-catalyzed additions of P(O)H compounds to alkynes, and the reactions provided the regio- and stereoselective E-alkenylphosphine oxides under catalysis of the commercially available and inexpensive copper catalyst system CuI/ethylenediamine. This finding is the first example of copper-catalyzed hydrophosphinylation of alkynes to synthesize alkenylphosphine oxides.
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