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Easy access to medium-sized lactones through metal carbene migratory insertion enabled 1,4-palladium shift

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  • Yinghua Yu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Pushkin Chakraborty

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Jinshuai Song

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Zhengzhou University)

  • Lei Zhu

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Chunsen Li

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xueliang Huang

    (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Nankai University)

Abstract

Reactions that efficiently construct medium-sized lactones are significant, as they overcome the unfavorable entropic factor and transannular interactions for ring closure, and the lactones produced are common structural motifs recurring in many biologically active compounds. Herein, we describe a valuable strategy for medium-sized lactone synthesis by accomplishing site-selective C–H bond functionalization via a palladium carbene migratory insertion enabled 1,4-palladium shift. The overall process achieves the formal dimerization of two readily available benzaldehyde derivatives, providing value-added products medium-sized lactones. Our method is amenable to late-stage modification of approved drugs and other complex molecules. Mechanistic studies including deuterium-labeling experiments and DFT calculation shed light on the reaction pathways.

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  • Yinghua Yu & Pushkin Chakraborty & Jinshuai Song & Lei Zhu & Chunsen Li & Xueliang Huang, 2020. "Easy access to medium-sized lactones through metal carbene migratory insertion enabled 1,4-palladium shift," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-14101-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14101-5
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