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While bond formation processes have traditionally garnered the attention of the chemical community, methods facilitating bond breaking remain relatively undeveloped. We report a novel, transition-metal-free oxidative C-C bond cleavage process for a broad range of ester and dicarbonyl compounds involving carbanion addition to nitrosobenzene. ReactIR experiments on the nitrosobenzene-mediated oxidative decarboxylation of esters indicate the reaction proceeds via fragmentation of a previously unobserved oxazetidin-4-one heterocycle, characterized by an intense IR stretching frequency at 1846 cm-1. These mechanistic studies have allowed further expansion of this protocol to ketone cleavage reactions of a diverse array of beta-ketoester and 1,3-diketone substrates. The conceptual and mechanistic insights offered by this study are likely to provide a platform for further development of bond-breaking methodologies.

Nitrosobenzene-Mediated C−C Bond Cleavage Reactions and Spectral Observation of an Oxazetidin-4-one Ring System