Catalytic CH Amination with Aromatic Amines

Abstract

Aniline joins the club: A β-diketiminato copper(I) catalyst enables CH amination of anilines employing low catalyst loadings to preclude oxidation to the diazene ArNNAr (see scheme). Electron-poor anilines are particularly resistant towards diazene formation and participate in the amination of strong and unactivated CH bonds. N-alkyl anilines also take part in CH amination. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.