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Triflic Acid‐Catalyzed Dehydrative Amination of 2‐Arylethanols with Weak N‐Nucleophiles in Hexafluoroisopropanol

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The catalytic deoxyamination of readily available 2-arylethanols offers an appealing, simple, and straightforward means of accessing β-(hetero)arylethylamines of biological interest. Yet, it currently represents a great challenge to synthetic chemistry. In most cases, the alcohol has to be either pre-activated in situ or converted into a reactive carbonyl intermediate, limiting the substrate scope for some methods. Examples of direct dehydrative amination of 2-arylethanols are thus still scarce. Here, we describe a catalytic protocol based on the synergy of triflic acid and hexafluoroisopropanol, which enables the direct and stereospecific amination of a broad array of 2-arylethanols, and does not require any pre-activation of the alcohol. This approach yields high value-added products incorporating sulfonamide, amide, urea, and aniline functionalities. In addition, this approach was applied to the sulfidation of 2-arylethanols. Mechanistic experiments and DFT computations indicate the formation of phenonium ions as key intermediates in the reaction.

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hal-04890326 , version 1 (16-01-2025)

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Max van Hoof, Robert J Mayer, Joseph Moran, David Lebœuf. Triflic Acid‐Catalyzed Dehydrative Amination of 2‐Arylethanols with Weak N‐Nucleophiles in Hexafluoroisopropanol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, pp.e202417089. ⟨10.1002/anie.202417089⟩. ⟨hal-04890326⟩
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