Synlett 2013; 24(15): 1959-1962
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1339448
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Copper-Catalyzed Direct N-Arylation of Naphthalimides Using Diaryliodonium Salts

Authors

  • Song Mao

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
  • Fenglou Guo

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
  • Juan Li

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
  • Xu Geng

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
  • Jianjun Yu

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
  • Jianwei Han

    c   Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China
  • Limin Wang*

    a   Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China   Fax: +86(21)64253881   Email: wanglimin@ecust.edu.cn
    b   Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Ling Ling Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. of China
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Publication History

Received: 07 May 2013

Accepted after revision: 18 June 2013

Publication Date:
07 August 2013 (online)


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Abstract

An effective copper-catalyzed N-arylation of naphthal-imides with diaryliodonium salts in toluene at 100 °C has been developed. This cross-coupling reaction gives the desired N-arylated 1,8-naphthalimides in moderate to good yields. The synthetic potential of this coupling is applied in functional materials based on N-arylated 1,8-naphthalimides, such as molecular probes.

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