Wen Jing, Wu An, Wang Mingyang, Zhu Jin
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, China.
J Org Chem. 2015 Nov 6;80(21):10457-63. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b01154. Epub 2015 Oct 9.
Described herein is a convenient and efficient method for sulfuration and olefination of aromatic ketazines via rhodium-catalyzed oxidative C-H bond activation. A range of substituted substrates are supported, and a possible mechanism is proposed according to experimental results of kinetic isotopic effect, reversibility studies, and catalysis of rhodacycle intermediate c1.