Mild and Efficient Flavin-Catalyzed H2O2 Oxidations
摘要:
Based on a previously discovered method for amine oxidations using flavins as catalysts and hydrogen peroxide as oxidant, a comparative kinetic study using NMR spectroscopy was undertaken with a series of flavins for amine and thioether oxidations. Included in this series is the newly prepared 7,8-difluoro-1,3dimethyl-5-ethyl-5,10-dihydroalIoxazine. This study shows that flavins, which bear electron-donating groups on the aromatic ring and/or the N-10 position, are less active and are deactivated during the course of the reaction, Moreover, flavins that are alkylated at the N-1 position instead of the N-10 position and having either no substituents or electron-withdrawing groups on the aromatic ring, remain the most active and stable.
Organocatalytic Dakin Oxidation by Nucleophilic Flavin Catalysts
摘要:
Flavin catalysts perform the first organocatalytic Dakin oxidation of electron-rich arylaldehydes to phenols under mild, basic conditions. Catechols are readily prepared, and the oxidation of 2-hydroxyacetophenone was achieved. Aerobic oxidation is displayed in the presence of Zn(0) as a reducing agent. This reactivity broadens the scope of biomimetic flavin catalysis in the realm of nucleophilic oxidations, providing a framework for mechanistic investigations for related oxidations, such as the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation and Weitz-Scheffer epoxidation.
AbstractA series of substituted alloxazinium perchlorates has been prepared and tested as catalysts for the oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides with hydrogen peroxide. The logarithms of the observed rate constants of thioanisole oxidation correlate with the Hammett σ constants of the substituents on the alloxazinium catalysts, as well as with their reduction potentials E0′ and their pKR+ values, representing the alloxazinium salt/pseudobase equilibrium. The stronger the electron‐withdrawing substituent, the more efficient is the alloxazinium catalyst. The alloxazinium salts with a cyano or trifluoromethyl group in position 8 proved to be the most efficient, operating at room temperature at small loadings, down to 0.1 mol%, achieving turnover number values of up to 640 and acceleration by a factor of 350 relative to the non‐catalyzed oxidation. The 8‐cyanoalloxazinium perchlorate was evaluated as the best catalyst; however, due to its relatively good accessibility, the 8‐(trifluoromethyl)alloxazinium perchlorate seems to be the catalyst of choice for sulfoxidations with hydrogen peroxide. It was successfully tested for the sulfoxidation of a series of aliphatic and aromatic sulfides on a preparative scale. It produced the corresponding sulfoxides in quantitative conversions and with high isolated yields (87–98%). No over‐oxidation to sulfone was ever observed.magnified image
Aerobic Organocatalytic Oxidation of Aryl Aldehydes: Flavin Catalyst Turnover by Hantzsch’s Ester
作者:Shuai Chen、Frank W. Foss
DOI:10.1021/ol302479b
日期:2012.10.5
The first Dakin oxidation fueled by molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant is reported. Flavin and NAD(P)H coenzymes, from natural enzymatic redox systems, inspired the use of flavin organocatalysts and a Hantzsch ester to perform transition-metal-free, aerobic oxidations. Catechols and electron-rich phenols are achieved with as low as a 0.1 mol % catalyst loading, 1 equiv of Hantzsch ester, and O-2 or air as the stoichiometric oxidant source.