Efforts to substitute the cyclopropane ring in a series of aryl cyclopropylnitriles led to the discovery of an operationally simple one-pot method for Knoevenagel condensation and subsequent Corey-Chaykovsky cyclopropanation giving diastereomerically pure products as a racemic mixture of enantiomers. Method development and results for variably substituted aryl acetonitriles and aldehydes in the reaction are reported. A concise synthesis of (+/-)-bicifadine in two steps is provided to demonstrate the utility of the method.
作者:Jeremy J. Clemens、Juliana L. Asgian、Brett B. Busch、Timothy Coon、Justin Ernst、Leonard Kaljevic、Paul J. Krenitsky、Timothy D. Neubert、Edwin J. Schweiger、Andreas Termin、Dean Stamos
DOI:10.1021/jo302443k
日期:2013.1.18
Efforts to substitute the cyclopropane ring in a series of aryl cyclopropylnitriles led to the discovery of an operationally simple one-pot method for Knoevenagel condensation and subsequent Corey-Chaykovsky cyclopropanation giving diastereomerically pure products as a racemic mixture of enantiomers. Method development and results for variably substituted aryl acetonitriles and aldehydes in the reaction are reported. A concise synthesis of (+/-)-bicifadine in two steps is provided to demonstrate the utility of the method.