Du fait de l'extrême acidité des milieux superacides, le comportement des composés organiques y est particulièrement singulier, et en particulier celui des composé azotés. Ces milieux permettent d'accéder par polyprotonation à des intermédiaires superélectrophiles polycationiques, capables d'être piégés par des nucléophiles faibles, comme les ions fluorures solvatés du milieu ou des aromatiques désactivés. L'activation superélectrophile permet en outre d'accéder à une régiosélectivité unique en rendant certains sites réactifs, insensibles dans les milieux acides plus classiques.Dans la première partie de ce travail est étudiée une réaction d'addition anti-Markovnikov sur des anilines N-allyliques dans le mélange HF/SbF5. Une étude mécanistique a été réalisée incluant la modélisation d'intermédiaires réactionnels, des expériences de RMN in situ ainsi que des réactions avec des substrats marqués. Grâce à cette étude, une nouvelle réaction de type Friedel-Crafts permettant d'accéder à des tétrahydroquinolines désactivées a été mise au point. De plus, en modifiant les conditions opératoires, la synthèse d'anilines β-fluorées a également pu être réalisée. Ces réactions ont ensuite été appliquées à la synthèse de nouveaux composés hétérocycliques.La deuxième partie est consacrée au développement d'une nouvelle réaction d'hydrofluoration dynamides dans l'acide fluorhydrique anhydre. Cette méthodologie permet d'accéder à des (E)-α-fluoroènamides orginales avec un excellente régio- et stéréo-sélectivité. Par analogie avec les fluorooléfines qui sont connues pour mimer les fonctions amides, ces composés sont potentiellement de nouveaux bioisostères rigides d'urées, avec des app / Thanks to the extrem acidity of superacid media, the behavior of organic compound in these conditions is especially original. These media provide access by polyprotonation to superelectrophilic polycationic intermediates able to be trapped by very weak nucleophiles such as solvated fluoride ions or deactivated aromatic. In addition, the superelectrophic activation allowed to access to a unique regioselectivity, making some classically unreactive sites very reacive in these conditions.In the first part of this work, an anti-Markovnikov addition of N-allyl anilines in the HF/SbF5 mixture is studied. A mechanistic study was performed including the modeling of reaction intermediates, in situ NMR experiments and reactions with labeled substrates. Through this study, a new Friedel-Crafts type reaction was perform and applied to deactivated tetrahydroquinoline synthesis. In addition, the synthesis of β-fluorinated anilines could also be performed. These reactions were then applied to the synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds.The second part deals with the developement of a new hydrofluorination reaction of yanmides using anhydrous fluorhydric acid. This methodology allowed the synthesis of original (E)-α-fluoroenamides with an excellent regio- and stereo-selectivity. By analogy with fluoroolefins which are known to be mimics of amides, these compounds are potentially new rigid bioisosters of ureas with further potent applications in medicinal chemistry.

<p dir="ltr">Primary alcohols are fundamental substrates in organic synthesis, and widely used in pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and bulk/fine chemical industries. Chapter one describes the current practices in industry and discoveries in academia for primary aliphatic alcohol synthesis. The methods discussed in chapter one include hydroboration-oxidation, the Ziegler process, hydroformylation/hydrogenation, transition metal-catalyzed hydrogenation of epoxides. Catalytic methods are described as well, both in transition metal catalysis and photoredox catalysis. Chapter two introduces a photoinduced pyridine <i>N</i>-oxide-catalyzed method for carbohydroxylation of unactivated olefins. The extensive reaction optimization process is shown, including the screening of different pyridine <i>N</i>-oxides, photocatalysts, and solvents. In this chapter, the applicability of the method is confirmed for a broad scope of unactivated olefins, both mono- and di-substituted. The regioselectivity of the transformation is confirmed by X-ray crystallography. Chapter three offers mechanistic insights regarding the carbohydroxylation of unactivated olefins. The proposed mechanism is corroborated through different experiments. Cyclic voltammetry and Stern-Volmer fluorescence quenching analysis, revealed that the photocatalyst directly oxidized pyridine <i>N</i>-oxide but does not oxidize the olefin substrate. The substitution step that ultimately affords the primary alcohol is confirmed with the use of different oxygen nucleophiles, that generate the corresponding carbo-oxygenated products. The ¹⁸O labeling experiments provide solid evidence that the oxygen source is not the pyridine <i>N</i>-oxide, rather it is the added nucleophile. Radical trapping experiments confirm the existence of the carbon radical generated, after pyridine <i>N</i>-oxy radical addition to the olefin.</p><p dir="ltr">Chapter four delves in the development of a protocol for the generation of alkyl carbon radicals from alkylboronic acids, wherein photoexcited 4-nitropyridine <i>N</i>-oxide biradical features a catalyst to promote the nucleo-homolytic substitution of boronic acids. With a wide range of readily available aliphatic boronic acids, including methyl boronic acid, the developed catalytic system demonstrates broad applicability for alkylation, amination, and cyanation.</p>