“…Furthermore, we found the relative deuterated yield for other pyridine derivatives, N , N ‐dimethylpyridin‐4‐amine, 4‐( tert ‐butyl)pyridine, 2‐(4‐(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)pyridine, 2,2′‐bipyridine, 4‐chloro‐7‐(trifluoromethyl)quinoline, quinoline and phenanthroline, can also be consistent with an anionic mechanism (Figure S11.1–S11.7). Besides, excellent correlation between relative thermal stability of anionic species and deuteration yield are also found for other experimental results [25,28b] of the remote deuteration of pyridine derivatives, such as pyridine, 3,4‐dimethylpyridine, 2,3‐dimethylpyridine, 2‐bromopyridine, 2‐bromo‐5‐methylpyridine, 6‐bromonicotinonitrile and 1‐(difluoromethyl)‐4‐fluorobenzene (Figure S11.8–S11.14), as well as the deuteration of bioactive molecules in our own scope (caffeine, Figure S11.15). Using the anion stabilities, we have been able to successfully predict the order of deuterium incorporation in the different positions of new substrates (Scheme 6, Figure S11.16–S11.19).…”