Diverse meta-C-H Functionalization of Amides

Overriding the preference for favorable proximal metalation by ortho-directing amide group, a pyrimidine-based directing group (DG) has been demonstrated for diverse remote meta-C-H functionalizations of arenes including allylation, cyanation, alkylation, alkynylation, and deuteration. The scope of palladium-catalyzed meta-C-H functionalizations has been presented with various pharmaceutically relevant phenylacetic acid, hydrocinnamic acid, and naphthylacetic acid derivatives.