Affiliation:
1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Assessment and Sustain-ability School of Chemical Science and Engineering Tongji University 1239 Siping Road 200092 Shanghai P. R. China
2. Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
Abstract
AbstractA general approach to the direct deoxygenative transformation of primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols has been developed. It undergoes through phosphoranyl radical intermediates generated by the addition of exogenous iodine radical to trivalent alkoxylphosphanes. Since these alkoxylphosphanes are readily in situ obtained from alcohols and commercially available, inexpensive chlorodiphenylphosphine, a diverse range of alcohols with various functional groups can be utilized to proceed deoxygenative cross‐couplings with alkenes or aryl iodides. The selective transformation of polyhydroxy substrates and the rapid synthesis of complex organic molecules are also demonstrated with this method.
Funder
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne