Alkanenitriles having a heteroatom such as nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur at the gamma-position are found to add across alkynes stereo- and regioselectively by nickel/Lewis acid catalysis to give highly substituted acrylonitriles. The heteroatom functionalities likely coordinate to the nickel center to make oxidative addition of the C-CN bonds of the alkyl cyanides kinetically favorable, forming a five-membered nickelacycle intermediate and, thus, preventing beta-hydride elimination to allow the alkylcyanation reaction.
Synthesis of enantiomerically enriched (S)-(+)-2-aryl-4-pentenoic acids and (R)-(−)-2-aryl-4-pentenamides via microbial hydrolysis of nitriles, a chemoenzymatic approach to stereoisomers of α,γ-disubstituted γ-butyrolactones
作者:Mei-Xiang Wang、Sheng-Min Zhao
DOI:10.1016/s0957-4166(02)00470-6
日期:2002.8
In the presence of the nitrile hydratase amidase-containing Rhodococcus sp. AJ270 whole cell catalyst. 2-aryl-4-pentenenitriles 1 underwent enantioselective hydrolysis under mild conditions to afford (R)-(-)-2-aryl-4-pentenoic acid amides 2 and (S)-(+)-2-aryl-4-pentenoic acids 3 in almost quantitative yield. The amidase involved in the cells shows very high S-enantioselectivity whereas the nitrite hydratase exhibits low to moderate S-enatitioselectivity. The synthesis of stereoisomers of chi,gamma-disubstituted gamma-butyrolactones from iodolactonization of (S)-(+)-2-aryl-4-pentenoic acid was demonstrated. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.