A photoredox-catalyzed radical addition of methylene-2-oxazolines has been developed under visible light irradiation to synthesize monofluorooxazoles with quaternary C–F centers using 2-bromo-2-fluoro-3-oxo-3-phenylpropionates as radical source.
Efficient Cycloisomerization of Propargyl Amides by Electrophilic Gold(I) Complexes of KITPHOS Monophosphines: A Comparative Study
作者:Simon Doherty、Julian G. Knight、A. Stephen K. Hashmi、Catherine H. Smyth、Nicholas A. B. Ward、Katharine J. Robson、Sophie Tweedley、Ross W. Harrington、William Clegg
DOI:10.1021/om1006769
日期:2010.9.27
Electrophilic gold(I) complexes of diphenyl- and dicyclohexylphosphino-based KITPHOSmonophosphines catalyze the 5-exo-dig cycloisomerization of a range of propargyl amides to afford the corresponding alkylidene oxazolines; in all cases catalysts formed from diphenylphosphino-substituted KITPHOSmonophosphines outperformed their dicyclohexylphosphino counterparts as well as that based on triphenylphosphine
electron‐catalyzed, photochemical tandem carbodifluoroalkylation/radical cyclization of enol ethers is disclosed. The reactions occur via addition of difluoroacyl radicals to methylene‐2‐oxazolines and subsequent intramolecular base‐promoted homolytic alkyl substitution (BHAS) of the intermediate oxyl‐alkyl radicals. Initiation of the radical chain reaction is best achieved with a commercially available and cheap
Triaryl-Like MONO-, BIS-, and TRISKITPHOS Phosphines: Synthesis, Solution NMR Studies, and a Comparison in Gold-Catalyzed Carbon–Heteroatom Bond Forming 5-<i>exo</i>-dig and 6-<i>endo</i>-dig Cyclizations
作者:Simon Doherty、Julian G. Knight、Daniel O. Perry、Nicholas A. B. Ward、Dror M. Bittner、William McFarlane、Corinne Wills、Michael R. Probert
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00146
日期:2016.5.9
A homologous series of triaryl-like KITPHOS-type monophosphines containing one, two, or three bulky 12-phenyl-9,10-dihydro-9,10-ethenoanthracene (KITPHOS) units have been developed, and the influence of increasing steric bulk on their efficacy as ligands in gold(I)-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom bond-forming cyclizations has been investigated. Detailed solution NMR studies on Ph-TRISKITPHOS, its oxide, and the corresponding gold(I) chloride adduct identified a conformational exchange process involving a concerted librational motion of the individual anthracene-derived organic substituents about their P-C bonds. The cessation of this motion at reduced temperatures lowers the molecular symmetry such that the two C6H4 rings in each of the KITPHOS units become inequivalent; a lower energy process involving restricted rotation of the biaryl-like phenyl ring has also been identified. Electrophilic gold(I) complexes of these triaryl-like KITPHOS monophosphines catalyze the 5-exo-dig cycloisomerization of propargyl amides to afford the corresponding methylene oxazolines, which were used in a subsequent tandem carbonyl-ene reaction to afford functionalized 2 -substituted oxazolines. A comparative survey revealed that catalyst efficiency for cycloisomerization decreases in the order MONOKITPHOS = BISKITPHOS > PPh3 > TRISKITPHOS. The optimum system also catalyzes the selective 6-endo-dig cyclization of 2-alkynylbenzyl alcohols, 2-alkynylbenzoic acid, and 2-phenylethynyl benzamides; gratifyingly, in several cases the yields obtained are markedly higher and/or reaction times significantly shorter than those previously reported for related gold catalysts. Moreover, these are the first examples of gold(I)-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cycloisomerizations involving 2-phenylethynyl benzamides and, reassuringly, the optimum gold(I)/MONOKITPHOS systems either rivaled or outperformed existing silver or palladium based catalysts. The steric parameters of this homologous series of phosphines have been quantified and compared with selected triarylphosphines using a combination of Solid -G calculations, to determine the percentage of the metal coordination sphere shielded by the phosphine (the G parameter), and Salerno molecular buried volume calculations (SambVca) to determine the percent buried volume (%V-bur); the corresponding Tolman cone angles have also been determined from correlations.
Photoredox catalytic cascade radical addition/aromatization of methylene-2-oxazolines: Mild access to C(sp)-difluoro-oxazole derivatives
Oxazoles are pivotal structural scaffolds in coordination chemistry, natural products, medicinal chemistry, and material science.[1] Consequently, the synthesis of functionalized oxazoles with multiple pharmacological and biological properties has become the subject of intense research in recent decades.[2] The difluoromethylene group (CF2), which is a bioisostere for an oxygen atom, can significantly