Iron-Catalyzed Borrowing Hydrogen C-Alkylation of Oxindoles with Alcohols

Mubarak B. Dambatta; Kurt Polidano; Alexander D. Northey; Jonathan M.J. Williams; Louis C. Morrill

doi:10.1002/cssc.201900799

Iron-Catalyzed Borrowing Hydrogen C-Alkylation of Oxindoles with Alcohols

Mubarak B. Dambatta, Kurt Polidano, Alexander D. Northey, Jonathan M.J. Williams, Louis C. Morrill

Department of Chemistry

Cardiff University

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Abstract

A general and efficient iron-catalyzed C-alkylation of oxindoles has been developed. This borrowing hydrogen approach employing a (cyclopentadienone)iron carbonyl complex (2 mol %) exhibited a broad reaction scope, allowing benzylic and simple primary and secondary aliphatic alcohols to be employed as alkylating agents. A variety of oxindoles underwent selective mono-C3-alkylation in good-to-excellent isolated yields (28 examples, 50–92 % yield, 79 % average yield).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2345-2349
Number of pages	5
Journal	ChemSusChem
Volume	12
Issue number	11
Early online date	7 May 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201900799
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2019

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Keywords

alcohols
alkylation
borrowing hydrogen
iron catalysis
oxindoles

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Environmental Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
General Materials Science
General Energy

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