Citation: Wang Shuai, Yang Cheng, Sun Shuo, Sun Hanli, Wang Jianbo. Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Aromatic Bromides and Trimethylsilyldiazomethane: Its Application to Methylation of Aromatic Compounds[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, ;2020, 40(11): 3881-3888. doi: 10.6023/cjoc202006075 shu

Palladium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Aromatic Bromides and Trimethylsilyldiazomethane: Its Application to Methylation of Aromatic Compounds

Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871

Corresponding author: Wang Jianbo, wangjb@pku.edu.cn
Received Date: 30 June 2020
Revised Date: 19 July 2020
Available Online: 5 August 2020
Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 91956104Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91956104)

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The introduction of methyl group into aromatic compounds is a valuable transformation. A large number of known methods use organohalides as the starting materials. However, those methods require pre-synthesized methyl metal reagents or toxic methyl electrophiles. Herein, a palladium-catalyzed reductive coupling reaction between aryl bromides and trimethylsilyl-diazomethane is developed, and the following desilicification process can afford the methylated products. This transformation has broad functional group tolerance and allows methylation of (hetero)aryl halides in moderate to good yields. Thus, it has the potential to be an attractive approach for methylation of organic. In addition, this reductive coupling can also serve as an efficient way for the introduction of silylmethyl group.
- methylation,
- trimethylsilyldiazomethane,
- metal carbene,
- migratory insertion,
- reductive coupling
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