Titanium‐Mediated Amination of Grignard Reagents Using Primary and Secondary Amines

Make it, then break it: N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) was employed as the oxidant in the synthesis of aniline derivatives using the title transformation (see scheme). Functionalization was well tolerated on both the amine and Grignard reagent. An androgen receptor agonist and several analogues were synthesized to demonstrate the utility of this method.