Cheng Huang, Sheng Tang, Chen-Lu Wang, Chen Kang, Ying Wang, Yaru Jing, Zhong-Ming Ye, Zhenhong Wei, Hu Cai
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Abstract
Reported herein is a photoredox/cobaloxime dual-catalytic approach to execute tandem dehydrogenative azolation and aromatization of tetrahydronaphthalene for rapid construction of N-(β-naphthyl)azole architectures. This protocol highlights noble metal-free and external oxidants-free conditions, step- and atom-economy, and site-selectivity. A preliminary mechanistic study has uncovered that the transformation undergoes a N-centered radical mediated C–H/N–H cross-coupling followed by dehydrogenative aromatization of saturated naphthyl surrogates under visible light irradiation, and DFT calculations elucidate the site-selectivity.
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