Diverting Radical-Anionic C-H Amidation to a C-N/C-O Cascade for the Construction of Hydroxyisoindolines from Unprotected Amides
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Abstract
<p>An intramolecular C(sp<sup>3</sup>)-H amidation proceeds in the presence of <i>t</i>-BuOK, molecular oxygen, and DMF. The success of this reaction hinges on the deprotonation of a mildly acidic N-H bond and selective radical activation of a benzylic C(sp<sup>3</sup>)-H bond towards hydrogen atom transfer (HAT)<i>. </i>DFT calculations suggest a thermodynamically favorable sequence of steps mediated by the generation of a radical-anion intermediate. As this intermediate starts to form a two-centered/three-electron (<i>2c,3e)</i>C-N bond, the extra electron is “ejected” into the π*-orbital of the aromatic core. The resulting cyclic radical-anion is readily oxidized by molecular oxygen to forge the C-N bond of the product. The transformation of a relatively weak reductant into a stronger reductant (i.e., “reductant upconversion”) allows one to use mild oxidants such as molecular oxygen. In contrast, the second stage of NH/CH activation forms a highly stabilized radical-anion intermediate incapable of electron transfer to molecular oxygen. Hence, the oxidation is impossible and an alternative reaction path opens via coupling between the radical anion intermediate and either superoxide or hydroperoxide radical. The hydroperoxide intermediate transforms into the final hydroxyisoindoline products under basic conditions. The use of TEMPO as an additive was found to activate less reactive amides. The combination of experimental and computational data outlines a conceptually new mechanism for the conversion of unprotected amides into hydroxyisoindolines proceeding as a sequence of C-H amidation and C-H oxidation.</p>
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".