Huawen Huang, Xiaochen Ji, Wanqing Wu
Mar 26, 2013
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The Journal of organic chemistry
Abstract
An efficient copper-catalyzed C-N bond cleavage of aromatic methylamines was developed to construct pyridine derivatives. With neat conditions and facile operation, the fragment-assembling strategy affords a broad range of 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyridines in up to 95% yield from simple and readily available starting materials. Interestingly, when pyridin-2-yl methylamine was employed as the substrate, α-alkylation reaction of ketones readily occurred to give β-(pyridin-2-yl) ketones instead of the 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyridines.