A Rh(III)-catalyzed annulation between salicylaldehydes and diazo compounds with controllable chemoselectivity is described. AgNTf favored benzofurans via a tandem C-H activation/decarbonylation/annulation process, while AcOH led to chromones through a C-H activation/annulation pathway. The reaction exhibited good functional group tolerance and scalability. Moreover, only a single regioisomer of benzofuran was obtained due to the in situ decarbonylation orientation effect.
Multisubstituted indoles were synthesized via a one-pot tandem copper-catalyzed Ullmann-type C-N bond formation/intramolecular cross-dehydrogenative coupling process at 130 °C in DMSO. The methodology allows practical and modular assembly of indoles in good to excellent yields from readily available aryl iodides and enamines.
Reported herein is a Rh-catalyzed redox-neutral annulation of primary benzamides with diazo compounds, representing an efficient and economic protocol to isoquinolinones. The procedure exhibited good functional group tolerability, scalability, and regioselectivity, obviating the need for oxidants, and only environmentally benign N2 and H2O were released. Further utilization of the method provided an alternative route to functionalized isoquinolines.
Cinnolines were synthesized in one step from azo and diazo compounds via a Rh(iii)-catalyzed redox-neutral C–H activation and C–N bond formation strategy.
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