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Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation Using Sodium Hexamethyldisilazide: Solvent-Dependent Reactivities and Mechanisms.


ABSTRACT: The solvent-dependent reactivity of sodium hexamethyldisilazide (NaHMDS) toward carbon-centered electrophiles reveals reactions that are poorly represented or unrepresented in the literature, including direct aminolysis of aromatic methyl esters to give carboxamides, nitriles, or amidines, depending on the choice of solvent. SNAr substitutions of aryl halides and opening of terminal epoxides are also examined. A combination of 1H and 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic studies using [15N]NaHMDS, kinetic studies, and computational studies reveals the complex mechanistic basis of the preferences for simple aryl carboxamides in toluene and dimethylethylamine and arylnitriles or amidines in tetrahydrofuran (THF). A prevalence of dimer- and mixed dimer-based chemistry even starting from the observable NaHMDS monomer in THF solution is notable.

SUBMITTER: You Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11373886 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Formation Using Sodium Hexamethyldisilazide: Solvent-Dependent Reactivities and Mechanisms.

You Qiulin Q   Collum David B DB  

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20231019 43


The solvent-dependent reactivity of sodium hexamethyldisilazide (NaHMDS) toward carbon-centered electrophiles reveals reactions that are poorly represented or unrepresented in the literature, including direct aminolysis of aromatic methyl esters to give carboxamides, nitriles, or amidines, depending on the choice of solvent. S<sub>N</sub>Ar substitutions of aryl halides and opening of terminal epoxides are also examined. A combination of <sup>1</sup>H and <sup>29</sup>Si nuclear magnetic resonan  ...[more]

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