Volume 51, Issue 49 pp. 12343-12347
Communication

Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Oxidative CH Coupling of N-Methoxybenzamides with Aryl Boronic Acids: One-Pot Synthesis of Phenanthridinones

Jaganathan Karthikeyan

Jaganathan Karthikeyan

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan) http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/%7Echcheng

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Radhakrishnan Haridharan

Radhakrishnan Haridharan

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan) http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/%7Echcheng

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Prof. Dr. Chien-Hong Cheng

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Chien-Hong Cheng

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan) http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/%7Echcheng

Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan) http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/%7EchchengSearch for more papers by this author
First published: 26 October 2012
Citations: 172

We thank the National Science Council of the Republic of China (NSC 98-2119-M-007-002-MY3) for support of this research.

Graphical Abstract

General solution: An efficient rhodium-catalyzed dual CH bond activation and cyclization of N-methoxybenzamides 1 with aryl boronic acids 2 (see scheme; Cp*=Me5C5) provides a straightforward and general approach to the phenanthridinone structure, which occurs widely in natural products and drugs. Highly regioselective CC and CN bond formation under mild conditions afforded a wide range of substituted phenanthridinones 3.

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