N-Heterocyclic Carbene/Magnesium Co-catalyzed Radical Relay Assembly of Aliphatic Keto-nitriles [post]

Lei Chen, Shiyi Jin, Jian Gao, Tongtong Liu, Yuebo Shao, Jie Feng, Kangyi Wang, Tao Lu, Ding Du
2020 unpublished
An N-heterocyclic carbene and magnesium co-catalyzed three-component alkylacylation of alkenes with cycloketone oxime esters and aldehydes was presented. This method displayed good scope generality, providing a transition metal and photo-redox free pathway to access various multi-functionalized aliphatic keto-nitrile structures under mild reaction conditions. Moreover, this strategy is supposed to follow a radical relay mechanism via a single electron transfer (SET) event of Mg/oxime
more » ... ow intermediate ternary electron donating acceptor (EDA) complex.
doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.13019747 fatcat:t3n5f54ckne65bqdnzuj6k4qka