A selenium-catalysed para-amination of phenols

Selenium has emerged as a metalloid for the catalytic construction of C–N bonds; however no functionalisation of aromatic compounds has been developed yet. Here, the authors report the para-amination of phenols via two successive sigmatropic rearrangements of a redox versatile Se–N bond.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dingyuan Yan, Guoqiang Wang, Feng Xiong, Wei-Yin Sun, Zhuangzhi Shi, Yi Lu, Shuhua Li, Jing Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06763-4