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.
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.
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
作者:Shuai Chen、Mohammad S. Hossain、Frank W. Foss
DOI:10.1021/ol3010326
日期:2012.6.1
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.