Aryne-induced dearomatized phosphonylation of electron-deficient azaarenes†
Abstract
An aryne-induced dearomatized phosphonylation reaction has been developed. Electron-deficient azaarenes such as quinolines, isoquinolines, phenanthroline and acridine undergo multicomponent reaction with arynes and dialkylphosphites to afford the corresponding dearomatized phosphonylated heterocycles in 50–90% yields.