Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.138, No.26, 8092-8095, 2016
Visible-Light-Mediated Synthesis of Amidyl Radicals: Transition Metal-Free Hydroamination and N-Arylation Reactions
The development of photoredox reactions of aryloxy-amides for the generation of amidyl radicals and their use in hydroamination-cyclization and N-arylation reactions is reported. Owing to the ease of single-electron transfer reduction of the aryloxy-amides, the organic dye eosin Y was used as the photoredox catalyst, which results in fully transition-metal-free processes. These transformations exhibit a broad scope, are tolerant to several important functionalities, and have been used in the late stage modification of complex and high-value N-containing molecules.