General Method for Carbon–Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Reactions via Semiheterogeneous Red-Light Metallaphotocatalysis

26 December 2024, Version 1
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Abstract

Combining transition-metal catalysis with photocatalysis has emerged as a valuable, complementary approach for achieving carbon–heteroatom cross-coupling reactions. However, the need to use blue or high-energy near-UV light leads to problems with scalability, chemoselectivity, and catalyst deactivation, which have limited the synthetic applications of this combination. Herein, we report a method for red-light-driven nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with 11 different types of nucleophiles using a polymeric carbon nitride (CN-OA-m) as a photocatalyst. This semihomogeneous catalyst system enabled the formation of four different types of carbon–heteroatom bonds (C–N, C–O, C–S, and C–Se) with a wide range of substrates (more than 200 examples) with yields up to 94%. Moreover, the photocatalysts could be recovered and recycled, which makes it a promising new tool for the development of other reactions involving red-light metallaphotoredox catalysis.

Keywords

Red-light catalysis • aryl halides • semi-homogeneous catalysis • aryl C-heteroatom coupling

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General Method for Carbon–Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Reactions via Semiheterogeneous Red-Light Metallaphotocatalysis
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Combining transition-metal catalysis with photocatalysis has emerged as a valuable, complementary approach for achieving carbon–heteroatom cross-coupling reactions. However, the need to use blue or high-energy near-UV light leads to problems with scalability, chemoselectivity, and catalyst deactivation, which have limited the synthetic applications of this combination. Herein, we report a method for red-light-driven nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl halides with 11 different types of nucleophiles using a polymeric carbon nitride (CN-OA-m) as a photocatalyst. This semihomogeneous catalyst system enabled the formation of four different types of carbon–heteroatom bonds (C–N, C–O, C–S, and C–Se) with a wide range of substrates (more than 200 examples) with yields up to 94%. Moreover, the photocatalysts could be recovered and recycled, which makes it a promising new tool for the development of other reactions involving red-light metallaphotoredox catalysis.
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