Cross-dehydrogenative coupling of ethers and amides with tautomerizable quinazolinones and mechanistic studies.

Org Biomol Chem

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA.

Published: July 2022

Cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions have been utilized to alkylate 4(3)-quinazolinones with ethers and amides, using catalytic -BuNI and -BuOOH as oxidants. The reactions with amides represent the first examples under such conditions. Studies inter- and intramolecular competitive experiments with protio and deuterio reactants, as well as radical inhibition experiments, provided mechanistic insight. Also, an understanding of the relative reactivities of ethers was obtained by pairwise competitions with 4(3)-quinazolinone.

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