Browsing by Author "Kattamuri, Padmanabha V."

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    Practical Singly and Doubly Electrophilic Aminating Agents: A New, More Sustainable Platform for Carbon–Nitrogen Bond Formation
    (American Chemical Society, 2017) Kattamuri, Padmanabha V.; Yin, Jun; Siriwongsup, Surached; Kwon, Doo-Hyun; Ess, Daniel H.; Li, Qun; Li, Guigen; Yousufuddin, Muhammed; Richardson, Paul F.; Sutton, Scott C.; Kürti, László
    Given the importance of amines in a large number of biologically active natural products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, agrochemicals, and functional materials, the development of efficient C–N bond-forming methods with wide substrate scope continues to be at the frontier of research in synthetic organic chemistry. Here, we present a general and fundamentally new synthetic approach for the direct, transition-metal-free preparation of symmetrical and unsymmetrical diaryl-, arylalkyl-, and dialkylamines that relies on the facile single or double addition of readily available C-nucleophiles to the nitrogen atom of bench-stable electrophilic aminating agents. Practical single and double polarity reversal (i.e., umpolung) of the nitrogen atom is achieved using sterically and electronically tunable ketomalonate-derived imines and oximes. Overall, this novel approach represents an operationally simple, scalable, and environmentally friendly alternative to transition-metal-catalyzed C–N cross-coupling methods that are currently used to access structurally diverse secondary amines.