Powerful Amino Diol Catalyst for Effecting the Direct Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Aldehydes to Acrylates
摘要:
Di-tert-butyl methylenemalonate (1) could be employed as a reactive equivalent of a three-carbon Michael acceptor such as acrylate in a direct asymmetric conjugate addition of aldehydes catalyzed by an axially chiral amino diol (S)-3a. Furthermore, acrylate, an unexplored and challenging substrate in enamine catalysis, has also been successfully employed in asymmetric conjugate addition reaction. Relatively inert acrylate is doubly activated by polyfluoroalkyl group of 2 and the hydroxyl group on the axially chiral amino diol catalyst (S)-3b, giving corresponding conjugate adducts in high yield with excellent enantiomeric excess. The obtained conjugate addition products were readily converted to synthetically useful and important chiral building blocks.
highly efficient iridium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of racemic α-substituted lactones via dynamic kinetic resolution. Using Ir-SpiroPAP (R)-1d as a catalyst, a wide range of chiral diols were prepared in a high yield (80–95%) with a high enantioselectivity (up to 95% ee) under mild reaction conditions. This protocol was used for enantioselective syntheses of (−)-preclamol and a chiral 2,5-disubstituted