Rhodium(III)-catalyzed C-C coupling between arenes and aziridines by C-H activation.
Making C-C from C-H: [{RhCp*Cl(2)}(2)]/AgSbF(6) (Cp*=pentamethylcyclopentadienyl) can regioselectively catalyze the C-C coupling of arenes with aziridines by a C-H activation pathway. An eight-membered rhodacyclic intermediate resulting from the insertion of the Rh-C bond into the aziridine was isolated.
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023 (China). xwli@dicp.ac.cn.
Xingwei
X
Li
Songjie
S
Yu
Fen
F
Wang
Boshun
B
Wan
Xinzhang
X
Yu