Geng, Huihui published the artcilePractical synthesis of C1 deuterated aldehydes enabled by NHC catalysis, Computed Properties of 21834-92-4, the main research area is deuterated aldehyde preparation; aldehyde reversible hydrogen deuterium exchange NHC catalyst.
N-heterocyclic carbenes promoted a reversible hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction with simple aldehydes, which led to a practical approach to synthetically valuable C1 deuterated aldehydes RC(O)D [R = Ph, Bn, CH=CHPh, etc.]. The reactivity of the well-established N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed formation of Breslow intermediates from aldehydes was reengineered to overcome the overwhelmingly kinetically favorable benzoin condensation reaction and achieve the critical reversibility to drive the formation of desired deuterated products when an excess of D2O was employed. Notably, this operationally simple and cost-effective protocol served as a general and truly practical approach to all types of 1-D-aldehydes including aryl, alkyl and alkenyl aldehydes and enabled chemoselective late-stage deuterium incorporation into complex, native therapeutic agents and natural products with uniformly high levels (>95%) of deuterium incorporation for a total of 104 tested substrates.
Nature Catalysis published new progress about Deuteration. 21834-92-4 belongs to class isoquinoline, name is 5-Methyl-2-phenylhex-2-enal, and the molecular formula is C13H16O, Computed Properties of 21834-92-4.
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