Synthesis 2017; 49(20): 4693-4697
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1588465
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A Catalyzed Aerobic Intramolecular C–O Bond Formation: Facile Access to Ring-Fused Dihydrobenzoxazine Derivatives

Xiao-Jie Shang*
a   College of Resources and Environment, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, P. R. of China   Email: shangxiaojie@yahoo.cn
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Zhong-Quan Liu*
b   College of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, P. R. of China   Email: liuzq@njucm.edu.cn
c   State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. of China   Email: liuzhq@lzu.edu.cn
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This project is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21662001, 21472080, 21672089).
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Publication History

Received: 11 April 2017

Accepted after revision: 20 May 2017

Publication Date:
27 June 2017 (online)


Published as part of the Special Topic Modern Strategies for Heterocycles Synthesis

Abstract

A catalyst comprising of catalytic cobalt(II) acetate/copper(II) acetate/dl-tyrosine with oxygen as the oxidant allows aerobic intramolecular C–O bond construction in [2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)phenyl]methanol by free-radical promoted intramolecular selective functionalization of an (sp3)C–H bond by the alcohol, thus providing an environmentally friendly approach to 5H-benzo[d]pyrrolo[2,1-b][1,3]oxazine derivatives.

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