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Rajabalinia S, Hoford S, Dudding T. Streamlining Fluoroalkenyl Arene Synthesis Illuminated with Mechanistic Insights. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:21152-21163. [PMID: 38764685 PMCID: PMC11097363 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c01055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2024] [Revised: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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Fluorinated compounds are a staple of modern-day chemical innovation, and efficient strategies for their synthesis are highly valuable. In this chemical space, fluoroalkenes continue to be the object of much interest across diverse fields, including drug development and pharmaceuticals with active roles as bioisosteres. Herein, in expanding chemists' synthetic toolbox for constructing valuable organofluorine compounds, we report a "pipeline" strategy for the synthesis of fluorinated olefins, viz., gem-difluoroalkenyl and monofluoroalkenyl arenes with high E-isomeric selectivity. The advantages of this streamlined synthetic protocol include mild reaction conditions, operational simplicity, broad substrate scope, and good to excellent yields, even at gram scales. Critical to this robust procedure is the use of widely available and inexpensive "scavenger" solid-support Merrifield peptide resin for removing phosphine impurities. Further computational investigations offering clarity into this reactivity are disclosed.
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- Sanaz Rajabalinia
- Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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Koidan G, Hurieva AN, Rozhenko AB, Manthe U, Spengler T, Zahorulko S, Shvydenko T, Kostyuk A. Latent Carbene in Diaminomethylation of Benzenes: Mechanism and Practical Application. J Org Chem 2023. [PMID: 37196314 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Silylformamidine 1 exists in equilibrium with its carbenic form 1' due to an easy migration of the silyl group. The reaction of 1 with variously substituted fluorobenzenes proceeds as an insertion of the nucleophilic carbene 1' into the most acidic C-H bond upon mixing the reagents and does not require any catalyst. According to DFT calculations, the classical interpretation of the insertion reaction proceeding via a three-membered transition state structure requires high activation energy. Instead, low activation barriers are predicted for a transfer of the most acidic proton in the aromatic substrate to the carbene carbon. As the next step, a barrierless rearrangement of the formed ion pair toward the product completes the process. The reactivity of substituted benzenes in the reaction with silylformamidine can be roughly assessed by calculated pKa (DMSO) values for the C-H hydrogens. Benzene derivatives having pKa approx. less than 31 can undergo C-H insertion. The reaction provides aminals as the first products, which can easily be transformed into the corresponding aldehydes via acidic hydrolysis. As silylformamidine 1 is tolerant to many functional groups, the reaction can be applied to numerous benzene derivatives, making it a reliable strategy for application in organic synthesis.
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- Georgyi Koidan
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
- University of Bielefeld, Universitätstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- University of Bielefeld, Universitätstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- University of Bielefeld, Universitätstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician Kukhar Str. 5, 02660 Kyiv, Ukraine
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Rozhenko AB, Horbenko YS, Kyrylchuk AA, Zarudnitskii EV, Mykhaylychenko SS, Shermolovich YG, Grafov AV. Stable Carbenes as Structural Components of Partially Saturated Sulfur-Containing Heterocycles. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27051458. [PMID: 35268558 PMCID: PMC8911733 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27051458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Revised: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Recently, an unusual elongation of the C-S bond was observed experimentally for some sulfur-containing heterocycles. Using a superior ab initio (SCS-MP2/cc-pVTZ) level of theory, we showed that the phenomenon can be explained by a contribution of a donor-acceptor adduct of a carbene with an unsaturated ligand. One may achieve further elongation of the C-S bond, eventually turning it to a coordinate one, by increasing the stability of each part of the system as, e.g., in the utmost case of spiro adducts with Arduengo carbenes. The effect of carbene stability was quantified by employing the isodesmic reactions of carbene exchange.
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- Alexander B. Rozhenko
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
- Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine, Prosp. Peremohy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
- Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine, Prosp. Peremohy 37, 03056 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Murmanska Str. 5, 02094 Kyiv, Ukraine; (A.B.R.); (Y.S.H.); (A.A.K.); (E.V.Z.); (S.S.M.); (Y.G.S.)
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, A.I.Virtasen Aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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Marchenko A, Koidan G, Hurieva A, Shvydenko K, Rozhenko AB, Rusanov EB, Kyrylchuk AA, Kostyuk A. Latent Nucleophilic Carbenes. J Org Chem 2021; 87:373-385. [PMID: 34898214 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Using DFT and ab initio calculations, we demonstrate that noncyclic formamidines can undergo thermal rearrangement into their isomeric aminocarbenes under rather mild conditions. We synthesized the silylformamidine, for which the lowest activation energy in this process was predicted. Experimental studies proved it to serve as a very reactive nucleophilic carbene. The reactions with acetylenes, benzenes, and trifluoromethane proceeded via insertion into sp, sp2, and sp3 CH bonds. The carbene also reacted with the functional groups, such as CHO, COR, and CN at double or triple bonds, displaying high mobility of the trimethylsilyl group. The obtained silylformamidine can be considered as a latent nucleophilic carbene. It can be prepared in bulk quantities, stored, and used when the need arises. Calculation results predict similar behavior for some other silylated formamidines and related compounds.
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- Anatoliy Marchenko
- Department of Organophosphorus Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Organophosphorus Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Organophosphorus Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Organophosphorus Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, National Technical University of Ukraine, Prosp. Peremohy 37, Kyiv 03056, Ukraine.,Department of Physicochemical Investigations, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Physicochemical Investigations, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Physicochemical Investigations, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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- Department of Organophosphorus Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Murmanska 5, Kyiv 02660, Ukraine
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Kirilchuk AA, Rozhenko AB, Leszczynski J. On structure and stability of pyrimidine ylidenes and their homologues. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2017.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Kirilchuk AA, Yurchenko AA, Kostyuk AN, Rozhenko AB. 1,2-migration in N-phosphano functionalized N-heterocyclic carbenes. J Comput Chem 2015; 36:42-8. [PMID: 25363134 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Revised: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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1,2-Migration of the phosphano-group to the carbene center in N-phosphano functionalized N-heterocyclic carbenes has been studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. An intramolecular mechanism with a three-center transition state structure seems to be most plausible for the isolated carbenes, while an intermolecular pathway catalyzed by azolium salts may be preferable for a migration proceeding in the course of generating the carbenes in situ. Our calculations show that amino-substitution at the phosphorus atom and an enhanced nucleophilicity of the heterocycle scaffold facilitate the phosphorus shift. Calculated singlet-triplet energy gaps do not correlate with thermodynamic stability of the studied carbenes and their disposition toward the 1,2-rearrangement.
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- Andrey A Kirilchuk
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Murmans'ka str. 5, Kyiv, 02660, Ukraine
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Marchenko A, Koidan G, Hurieva A, Kurpiieva O, Vlasenko Y, Rozhenko AB, Kostyuk A. StableN-Phosphanyl Acyclic Diaminocarbenes. Eur J Inorg Chem 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201402166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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