Remote functionalisation via sodium alkylamidozincate intermediates : access to unusual fluorenone and pyridyl ketone reactivity patterns

Crawford, James J. and Fleming, Ben J. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Klett, Jan and O'Hara, Charles T. and Orr, Samantha A. (2011) Remote functionalisation via sodium alkylamidozincate intermediates : access to unusual fluorenone and pyridyl ketone reactivity patterns. Chemical Communications (London), 47 (13). pp. 3772-3774. ISSN 0009-241X (https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc10193e)

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Abstract

Treating fluorenone or 2-benzoylpyridine with the sodium zincate [(TMEDA)center dot Na(mu-Bu-t)(mu-TMP)Zn(Bu-t)] in hexane solution, gives efficient Bu-t addition across the respective organic substrate in a highly unusual 1,6-fashion, producing isolable organometallic intermediates which can be quenched and aerobically oxidised to give 3-tert-butyl-9H-fluoren-9-one and 2-benzoyl-5-tert-butylpyridine respectively.

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Crawford, James J., Fleming, Ben J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0111-8679, Kennedy, Alan R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-6015, Klett, Jan, O'Hara, Charles T. and Orr, Samantha A.;
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