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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, 607 Charles Young Drive East, Box 951569, Los Angeles, USA
E-mail: neilgarg@chem.ucla.edu
Chem. Sci., 2011,2, 1766-1771
DOI:
10.1039/C1SC00230A
Received
08 Apr 2011,
Accepted
12 May 2011
First published online
09 Jun 2011
We report the amination of aryl carbamates using nickel-catalysis. The methodology is broad in scope with respect to both coupling partners and delivers aminated products in synthetically useful yields. Computational studies provide the full catalytic cycle of this transformation, and suggest that reductive elimination is the rate-determining step. Given that carbamates are easy to prepare, robust, inert to Pd-catalysis, and useful for arene functionalization, these substrates are particularly attractive partners for use in synthesis. The sequential use of carbamate functionalization/site-selective cross-coupling processes highlights the utility of this methodology.