Decarboxylative, radical C–C bond formation with alkyl or aryl carboxylic acids: recent advances

Josh Tibbetts; Hannah Askey; Qiao Cao; James Grayson; Sophie Hobson; George Johnson; Jacob Turner-Dore; Alex Cresswell

doi:10.1055/a-2081-1830

Decarboxylative, radical C–C bond formation with alkyl or aryl carboxylic acids: recent advances

Josh Tibbetts, Hannah Askey, Qiao Cao, James Grayson, Sophie Hobson, George Johnson, Jacob Turner-Dore, Alex Cresswell

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Abstract

The ubiquity of carboxylic acids as naturally derived or man-made chemical feedstocks has spurred the development of powerful, decarboxylative C C bond-forming transformations for organic synthesis. Carboxylic acids benefit not only from extensive commercial availability, but are stable surrogates for organohalides or organometallic reagents in transition-metal-catalysed cross-coupling. Open shell reactivity of carboxylic acids (or derivatives thereof) to furnish carboncentred radicals is proving transformative for synthetic chemistry, enabling novel and strategy-level C(sp3) C bond disconnections with exquisite chemoselectivity. This short review will summarise several of the latest advances in this ever-expanding area.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3239-3250
Number of pages	12
Journal	Synthesis
Volume	55
Issue number	20
Early online date	30 May 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2081-1830
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2023

Funding

This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S028595/1 and EP/R020752/1). A.J.C. thanks the Royal Society for a University Research Fellowship (UF150533) and Ph.D. studentship funding (S.L.H), the University of Bath for an URSA Ph.D. studentship (H.E.A.) and a Global Doctoral Scholarship (Q.C), the EPSRC and associated companies for CASE or iCASE Ph.D. studentships (J.C.T.-D. with Syngenta, G.D.J. with AstraZeneca), and AstraZeneca (H.E.A), Janssen (S.L.H), and UCB Biopharma (Q.C.) for generous financial support.

Keywords

C-C coupling
carboxylic acids
decarboxylative
electrochemistry
photoredox catalysis
radicals

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Catalysis
Organic Chemistry

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