† Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, United States
‡ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4400, United States
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (18), pp 5777–5780
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02405
Publication Date (Web): April 27, 2016
Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society
Abstract
Herein we report an atom- and step-economic aromatic cyanoalkylation reaction that employs nitriles as building blocks and proceeds through Csp2–H and Csp3–H bond activation steps mediated by NiIII. In addition to cyanomethylation with MeCN, regioselective α-cyanoalkylation was observed with various nitrile substrates to generate secondary and tertiary nitriles. Importantly, to the best of our knowledge these are the first examples of C–H bond activation reactions occurring at a NiIII center, which may exhibit different reactivity and selectivity profiles than those corresponding to analogous NiII centers. These studies provide guiding principles to design catalytic C–H activation and functionalization reactions involving high-valent Ni species.
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