Highly Enantioselective Direct Alkylation of Arylacetic Acids with Chiral Lithium Amides as Traceless Auxiliaries
作者:Craig E. Stivala、Armen Zakarian
DOI:10.1021/ja205107x
日期:2011.8.10
A direct, highly enantioselective alkylation of arylacetic acids via enediolates using a readily available chiral lithium amide as a stereodirecting reagent has been developed. This approach circumvents the traditional attachment and removal of chiralauxiliaries used currently for this type of transformation. The protocol is operationally simple, and the chiral reagent is readily recoverable.
A series of 35 analogues of Shld with modifications in the A-residue and the C-residues were prepared and investigated for binding to FKBP and GFP accumulation in transgenic plants. The modifications investigated explored variations that were supposedly inside or outside the receptor binding site with the latter being important by influencing the overall polarity of the compounds in order to improve the absorption in plants. The binding of the new compounds to the destabilizing domain was determined using a fluorescence polarization competition assay, and the GFP expression in engineered Arabidopsis thaliana was studied. The results showed that modifications of the C-building block phenol with acidic, basic, and neutral groups led to better ligands with some being better than Shld in the plant. Generally small, polar substituents showed the best GFP accumulation.