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Photo Click Reaction of Acylsilanes with Indoles
Author(s) -
Stuckhardt Constantin,
Wissing Maren,
Studer Armido
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202101689
Subject(s) - moiety , indole test , depolymerization , chemistry , polymerization , polymer , coupling reaction , click chemistry , photochemistry , yield (engineering) , polymer chemistry , conjugate , combinatorial chemistry , materials science , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , mathematical analysis , mathematics , metallurgy
Light‐mediated coupling of acylsilanes with indoles is reported. This photo click reaction occurs under mild conditions (415 nm) mostly in quantitative yield and provides stable silylated N,O‐acetals via light mediated siloxycarbene generation with subsequent indole‐N‐H insertion. We show that this very efficient and fully atom economic coupling process can be applied to conjugate complex systems, as documented by the clicking of carbohydrates with indole alkaloids. The method is also applicable to the conjugation of polymer chains. The linking acetal moiety can be readily cleaved and it is also shown that wavelength‐selective coupling and cleavage with acyl silanes bearing a second photoactive moiety is possible. This is documented by a successful polymerization/depolymerization sequence and by a polymer folding/unfolding process.