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SUBMITTER: Tarantino KT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4657442 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20150513 20
The ability of redox-active metal centers to weaken the bonds in associated ligands is well precedented, but has rarely been utilized as a mechanism of substrate activation in catalysis. Here we describe a catalytic bond-weakening protocol for conjugate amination wherein the strong N-H bonds in N-aryl amides (N-H bond dissociation free energies ∼100 kcal/mol) are destabilized by ∼33 kcal/mol upon by coordination to a reducing titanocene complex, enabling their abstraction by the weak H-atom acce ...[more]