Honggui Lv, Jingjing Shi, Junjun Huang, Chao Zhang and Wei Yi
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017,15, 7088-7092
DOI:
10.1039/C7OB01627A,
Communication
We herein disclose, for the first time, Rh(III)-catalyzed and MeOH-involved regioselective mono-alkenylation of arenes with acrylates using NHCONMe2 as the transformable directing group, giving direct access to diverse ortho-acrylated N-phenyl carbamates. The synthetic application of the obtained products to build privileged quinolin-2(1H)-ones and 3-(2-aminophenyl)acrylates has also been demonstrated in subsequent derivatization reactions.