Meiming Luo
Sichuan University
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Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2017
Xuefeng Cong; Fei Fan; Pengchen Ma; Meiming Luo; Hui Chen; Xiaoming Zeng
The cleavage of aromatic carbon-nitrogen bonds catalyzed by transition metals is of high synthetic interest because such bonds are common in organic chemistry. However, few metal catalysts can be used to selectively break C(aryl)-N bonds in electronically neutral molecules. We report here the first low-valent, high-spin chromium-catalyzed cleavage of C(aryl)-N bonds in electronically neutral aniline derivatives at room temperature. By using simple and inexpensive chromium(II) chloride as precatalyst, accompanied by an imino auxiliary, the selective arylative and alkylative C-C coupling of C(aryl)-N bonds can be achieved. Crossover experiments indicate that a low-valent chromium species, formed in situ by reduction of CrCl2 with Grignard reagent, is responsible for the catalytic cleavage of C(aryl)-N bonds. DFT calculations show that facile insertion of the C(aryl)-N bond by chromium(0) can take place in a high-spin quintet (S = 2) ground state, whereas the lower-spin singlet (S = 0) and triplet (S = 1) states are inaccessible in energy. It was found that both donation of the sole paired d electrons in the d6 shell of high-spin chromium(0) to the antibonding orbital of the C(aryl)-N bond and the nitrogen ligating interaction to the metal center with its lone pair play important roles in the cleavage of the C(aryl)-N bond by the zerovalent chromium species.
Organic Letters | 2018
Yuan He; Jinghua Tang; Meiming Luo; Xiaoming Zeng
A regioselective and chemoselective method for catalytic synthesis of biologically interesting 5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthols by reduction of naphthols was described. The side aromatic hydrocarbons in naphthols were site-selectively reduced, using hydrosilanes in methanol, allowing for retaining functional phenol scaffolds intact. It presents a rare example of using low-cost and air-stable hydrosilane for catalytic reduction of unactivated aromatic hydrocarbons under mild conditions. This reaction is scalable and proceeds in high selectivity without the formation of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthol byproducts with toleration of sensitive functionalities such as bromide, chloride, fluoride, ketone, ester, and amide.
Journal of Organic Chemistry | 2018
Fei Fan; Jinghua Tang; Meiming Luo; Xiaoming Zeng
We report here the chromium-catalyzed regioselective Kumada arylative cross-coupling of C(aryl)-O bonds at ambient temperature. By using a simple and low-cost chromium(II) chloride salt as a precatalyst, accompanied by a 2-pyridyl ligation, the catalytic cleavage and arylative coupling of C(aryl)-O bonds were achieved with a traceless activation strategy, overcoming the regioselectivity obstacle when several C-O bonds coexist in the Kumada coupling system.
Organometallics | 2009
Xiaoqin Zhang; Yuping Qiu; Bin Rao; Meiming Luo
Chemical Communications | 2016
Weixi Zhang; Meiming Luo
European Polymer Journal | 2011
Yuancheng Qin; Hongbo Ren; Fanghua Zhu; Lin Zhang; Chengwei Shang; Zhijun Wei; Meiming Luo
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | 2006
Junhua Chen; Xiaoqin Zhang; Qiang Feng; Meiming Luo
Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis | 2013
Tongxin Zhang; Yan Zhang; Weixi Zhang; Meiming Luo
Arkivoc | 2005
Weifeng Zhang; Yuancheng Qin; Sujuan Zhang; Meiming Luo
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | 2006
Chun Yan; Xiaoming Zeng; Weifeng Zhang; Meiming Luo