For the enantioselective borohydride reduction of aliphatic ketones, the optically active ketoiminatocobalt(II) catalysts was successfully designed based on their axial ligand. Instead of chlorofor...
Electroreductive crossed pinacol coupling of aromatic ketones with aliphatic ketones and aldehydes
作者:Naoki Kise、Yousuke Shiozawa、Nasuo Ueda
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2007.04.050
日期:2007.6
The intermolecular crossed pinacol coupling of aromatic ketones with aliphatic aldehydes and ketones was effected by electroreduction in the presence of chlorotrimethylsilane. The best result was obtained using a Pb cathode in Bu4NPF6/THF. The electroreduction of aromatic 1,4-, 1,5-, and 1,6-diketones under the same conditions gave four-, five-, and six-membered 1,2-diols with trans-stereoselectivity
Lewis Acid Assisted Electrophilic Fluorine-Catalyzed Pinacol Rearrangement of Hydrobenzoin Substrates: One-Pot Synthesis of (±)-Latifine and (±)-Cherylline
A microwave-irradiated solvent-free pinacolrearrangement of hydrobenzoin substrates catalyzed by a combination of N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide and FeCl3·6H2O was developed. Its selectivity was first investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Then the functional group tolerance was examined by synthesizing a series of substrates designed based on the insight provided by the DFT calculations
Mg-promoted reduction of a mixture of aromaticketones (or imines) and aliphatic carbonyl compounds in N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) brought about unique mixed pinacol type of cross coupling to give unsymmetrical vicinal diols (or amino alcohols) or α-hydroxyketones in good to moderate yields. The reaction may be initiated by electron transfer from magnesium metal to an aromatic carbonyl compound possessing a