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Visible-Light-Mediated Heterocycle Functionalization via Geometrically Interrupted [2+2] Cycloaddition.


ABSTRACT: The [2+2] photocycloaddition is the most valuable and intensively investigated photochemical process. Here we demonstrate that irradiation of N-acryloyl heterocycles with blue LED light (440?nm) in the presence of an IrIII complex leads to efficient and high yielding fused ?-lactam formation across a range of substituted heterocycles. Quantum calculations show that the reaction proceeds via cyclization in the triplet excited state to yield a 1,4-diradical; intersystem crossing leads preferentially to the closed shell singlet zwitterion. This is geometrically restricted from undergoing recombination to yield a cyclobutane by the planarity of the amide substituent. A prototropic shift leads to the observed bicyclic products in what can be viewed as an interrupted [2+2] cycloaddition.

SUBMITTER: Popescu MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891567 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Visible-Light-Mediated Heterocycle Functionalization via Geometrically Interrupted [2+2] Cycloaddition.

Popescu Mihai V MV   Mekereeya Aroonroj A   Alegre-Requena Juan V JV   Paton Robert S RS   Smith Martin D MD  

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20201008 51


The [2+2] photocycloaddition is the most valuable and intensively investigated photochemical process. Here we demonstrate that irradiation of N-acryloyl heterocycles with blue LED light (440 nm) in the presence of an Ir<sup>III</sup> complex leads to efficient and high yielding fused γ-lactam formation across a range of substituted heterocycles. Quantum calculations show that the reaction proceeds via cyclization in the triplet excited state to yield a 1,4-diradical; intersystem crossing leads p  ...[more]

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