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Highly selective single and multiple deuteration of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds

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  • Nian Li

    (Nanjing University)

  • Jinhang Li

    (Nanjing University)

  • Mingzhe Qin

    (Nanjing University)

  • Jiajun Li

    (Nanjing University)

  • Jie Han

    (Nanjing University)

  • Chengjian Zhu

    (Nanjing University
    Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
    Zhengzhou University)

  • Weipeng Li

    (Nanjing University)

  • Jin Xie

    (Nanjing University
    Xinjiang University)

Abstract

Selective deuteration of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds is a highly attractive but challenging subject of research in pharmaceutical chemistry, material science and synthetic chemistry. Reported herein is a practical, highly selective and economical efficient hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds by synergistic photocatalysis and hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysis. With the easily prepared PMP-substituted amides as nitrogen-centered radical precursors, a wide range of structurally diverse amides can undergo predictable radical H/D exchange smoothly with inexpensive D2O as the sole deuterium source, giving rise to the distal tertiary, secondary and primary C(sp3)-H bonds selectively deuterated products in yields of up to 99% and excellent D-incorporations. In addition to precise monodeuteration, this strategy can also achieve multideuteration of the substrates contain more than one remote C(sp3)-H bond, which opens a method to address multi-functionalization of distal unactivated C(sp3)–H bonds.

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  • Nian Li & Jinhang Li & Mingzhe Qin & Jiajun Li & Jie Han & Chengjian Zhu & Weipeng Li & Jin Xie, 2022. "Highly selective single and multiple deuteration of unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-31956-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31956-3
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