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ArticleNature communications2021

Organophotocatalytic selective deuterodehalogenation of aryl or alkyl chlorides.

Yanjun Li, Ziqi Ye, Yu-Mei Lin, Yan Liu, Yumeng Zhang, Lei Gong

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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6 authors.

Yanjun LiKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China.ORCID 0000-0002-6703-9271
Ziqi YeKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China.
Yu-Mei LinKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7287-9873
Yan LiuKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China.
Yumeng ZhangKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China.
Lei GongKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, Fujian, China. gongl@xmu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4478-6880

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of practical deuteration reactions is highly valuable for organic synthesis, analytic chemistry and pharmaceutic chemistry. Deuterodehalogenation of organic chlorides tends to be an attractive strategy but remains a challenging task. We here develop a photocatalytic system consisting of an aryl-amine photocatalyst and a disulfide co-catalyst in the presence of sodium formate as an electron and hydrogen donor. Accordingly, many aryl chlorides, alkyl chlorides, and other halides are converted to deuterated products at room temperature in air (>90 examples, up to 99% D-incorporation). The mechanistic studies reveal that the aryl amine serves as reducing photoredox catalyst to initiate cleavage of the C-Cl bond, at the same time as energy transfer catalyst to induce homolysis of the disulfide for consequent deuterium transfer process. This economic and environmentally-friendly method can be used for site-selective D-labeling of a number of bioactive molecules and direct H/D exchange of some drug molecules.

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HalogenationAlkanesCatalysisChloridesHalogensHydrogenLightModels, ChemicalMolecular StructureOrganic Chemistry PhenomenaAlkanesChloridesHalogensHydrogen

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PMID34001911
PMCPMC8129137

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