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Herein we report simple, efficient, and economically affordable metal-ligand cooperative strategies for synthesizing quinolines and quinazolin-4(3H)-ones via dehydrogenative functionalization of alcohols. Various polysubstituted quinolines and quinazolin-4(3H)-ones were prepared in good yields via dehydrogenative coupling of readily available alcohols with ketones and 2-aminobenzamides, respectively under air using a well-defined Fe(II)-catalyst, ([FeL1Cl2] (1)) bearing a redox-active azo-aromatic pincer 2-((4-chlorophenyl)diazenyl)-1,10-phenanthroline) (L1). Control experiments and mechanistic investigation disclose that the one-electron reduced mono-anionic species [1]⁻ bearing an iron-stabilized azo-anion radical ligand catalyzes these reactions. Both iron and the redox-active arylazo ligand participate synergistically during the different steps of these catalytic reactions.

Herein, we report a general, efficient and solvent-free method for the one-pot synthesis of allylic esters via dehydrogenation of unactivated alkanes and subsequent oxidative cross coupling with different substituted carboxylic acids. A simple, well defined and air stable Cu(II)-complex, [Cu(MeTAA)], featuring a tetraaza-macrocyclic ligand (tetramethyltetraaza[14]annulene (MeTAA)) is used as the catalyst. A wide variety of substituted allylic esters were synthesized in high yields starting from readily available starting materials. Control reactions were carried out to understand the reaction sequence and the plausible mechanism.