In the presence of LiBr, a palladium/copper combination catalyzes dehydrogenative amidobrominations of acrylates with NH-sulfoximines, leading to N-vinylated products by dual NH/CH coupling, followed by oxidative enamide bromination. Mechanistically, the domino process is proposed to involve palladium(II) species as key intermediates. First synthetic applications of the products have been demonstrated.
Keywords: C–C bond formation; C–N bond formation; copper cocatalysis; dehydrogenative amidobromination; palladium catalysis.
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