Tetra-n-butylammonium iodide can efficiently catalyze direct azidation of aldehyde C-H bonds with thermally stable azidobenziodoxolone at room temperature. Compared to conventional methods, which require excessive amounts of highly explosive azide sources, this is a safe and convenient procedure.
It has been established that an electron-deficient Cp(E) rhodium(III) complex catalyzes the oxidative [4+2] annulation of substituted arenecarboxylic and acrylic acids with alkynes under ambient conditions (at RT-40 °C, under air) without using excess amounts of substrates to produce the corresponding substituted isocoumarins and α-pyrones in high yields. Minor modification of reaction conditions depending on the coordination ability of alkynes realized the high efficiency.
The process succeeds using various aryl and alkyl aldehydes, and the products are isolated in moderate yields as the corresponding methyl carbamates obtained via Curtius‐rearrangement.
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