Elavarasan S, Preety J, Abinaya R, Saravanan T, Balasunramaniam KK, Venkatramaiah N, Baskar B. Visible Light Driven Metal-Free Photoredox Catalyzed α-benzylation and α-oxygenation of N-substituted tetrahydroisoquinolines: Applications to Synthesis of Natural Products.
Chem Asian J 2022;
17:e202200878. [PMID:
36073541 DOI:
10.1002/asia.202200878]
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Abstract
Herein, visible light mediated organophoto redox catalysed simple and convenient method for the a-benzylation and a-oxygenation of tertiary amines is demonstrated. Synthesis of novel thiophenol based donor acceptor organophotoredox catalysts 4a - 4d were investigated along with commercial catalyst 4-CzIPN ( 4e ). A diverse biologically active a-benzylated tetrahydroisoquinolines and natural products such as (±)-Norlaudanosine, (±)-laudanosine and (±)-xylopinine have been synthesized under the optimized conditions in yields ranging from from 62-91%. Exploitation of synthesized a-benzylated compound using present phtoredox catalyzed conditions gave rise to dehydyrogenative benzylic oxidation product under oxygen atmosphere which is known to display biologically and structurally important properties. Also, various N-protected tertiary amines were found to be suitable for the a-oxygenation reactions using catalyst 4e and resulted in good yields (61-85%).
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