Dehydrogenative cross-coupling/cyclization

Metal-mediated Reaction. The o -position of this inner salt can undergo dehydrogenative cross-coupling with terminal aUcynes, such as phenylacetylene, under Cu-mediated reaction conditions. The a-alkynyl derivative readily cyclizes in situ with the loss of the Ts group to afford 2-phenylpyrazolo[ l,5-a]pyridine in a 22% yield. This inner salt does not work as well as the analogous l-(benzoylamino)pyridinium inner salt in this reaction. ... 

Duan et al. developed a Cu20-catalyzed synthesis of highly functionalized dihydroquinolinones through tandem oxidative cyclization of cinnamamides with benzyl hydrocarbons (Scheme 8.96). The reaction proceeds smoothly via the direct cross-dehydrogenative coupling of C(sp )-H and C(sp )-H bonds using tert-butylperoxy benzoate (TBPB) as oxidant. This is the first example... 

Activation by rhodium complexes has been used to achieve direct exchange of ketone methyl or aryl groups with an aryl group on ArB(OH)2, selective C(CO)-C bond cleavage on reaction of ketones with water, oxidative acylation between secondary benzamides and aryl aldehydes with subsequent intramolecular cyclization to 3-hydroxyisoindolin-l-ones, " cross dehydrogenative coupling to form xanthones from 2-aryloxybenzaldehydes, and activation of the aldehydic C-H bond to achieve hydroacylation of unactivated alkenes by salicylaldehyde derivatives and of vinylsilane by benzaldehyde. ... 

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