Volume 47, Issue 6 pp. 1115-1118
Communication

Multiple CH Activations To Construct Biologically Active Molecules in a Process Completely Free of Organohalogen and Organometallic Components

Bi-Jie Li

Bi-Jie Li

College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Shi-Liang Tian

Shi-Liang Tian

College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Zhao Fang

Zhao Fang

College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Zhang-Jie Shi

Zhang-Jie Shi

Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), PKU Green Chemistry Centre and Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China, http://www.shigroup.cn/

State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China, Fax: (+86) 10-6276-0890)

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First published: 21 January 2008
Citations: 476

Support of this work by a starter grant from Peking University and the grant from National Sciences Foundation of China (No. 20542001, 20521202, 20672006) is gratefully acknowledged.

Graphical Abstract

Step by step: Highly selective cross dehydrogenative arylation of acetanilides was developed to construct biaryls under mild condition. With this method, different aryl CH bonds were activated in sequential reactions to construct functionalized carbazoles (see scheme), which are present as key structural units in various biological molecules and organic optical materials.

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