Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
The ubiquity of tertiary alkylamines in pharmaceutical and agrochemical agents, natural products and small-molecule biological probes(1,2) has stimulated efforts towards their streamlined synthesis(3-9). Arguably the most robust method for the synthesis of tertiary alkylamines is carbonyl reductive amination(3), which comprises two elementary steps: the condensation of a secondary alkylamine with an aliphatic aldehyde to form an all-alkyl-iminium ion, which is subsequently reduced by a hydride reagent. Direct strategies have been sought for a '
The synthesis of tertiary amines is achieved through a carbonyl alkylative amination reaction facilitated by visible light, in which an aldehyde and an amine condense to form an iminium ion that subsequently reacts with alkyl radical.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an obligate human pathogen and the causative agent of tuberculosis(1-3). Although Mtb can synthesize vitamin B-12 (cobalamin) de novo, uptake of cobalamin has been linked to pathogenesis of tuberculosis2. Mtb does not encode any characterized cobalamin transporter(4-6)
