Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.137, No.30, 9531-9534, 2015
Highly Regioselective Indoline Synthesis under Nickel/Photoredox Dual Catalysis
Nickel/photoredox catalysis is used to Synthesize indolines in one step from iodoacetanilides and alkenes. Very high regioselectivity for 3-substituted indoline products is obtained for both aliphatic and styrenyl olefins. Mechanistic investigations indicate that oxidation to Ni(III) is necessary to perform the difficult C-N bond-forming reductive elimination, producing a Ni(I) complex, which in turn is reduced to Ni(0). This process serves to further demonstrate the utility of photoredox catalysts as controlled single electron transfer agents in multioxidation state nickel catalysis.