Careful choreography for a ketone shift
Chemists devote tremendous effort to the precise placement of oxygens in molecular frameworks. Wu
et al
. report a convenient method to shift the oxygen in a carbonyl group to an adjacent carbon center. After activation of the oxygen to an alkenyl triflate, cooperative catalysis by palladium and norbornene adds nitrogen to the neighboring carbon while displacing the triflate with hydride. Hydrolysis then produces the desired shifted ketone. The protocol is well suited to late-stage variation of complex molecules during drug optimization. —JSY
标题:酮转移的谨慎编排
化学家们致力于在分子框架中精确放置氧原子。吴等人报告了一种方便的方法,将羰基中的氧转移到相邻的碳中心。在将氧活化为烯基三氟乙酸酯后,钯和环辛烯的协同催化作用在邻近碳上加入氮,同时用氢化物取代三氟乙酸酯。然后水解产生所需的转移酮。该协议非常适合在药物优化期间对复杂分子进行后期变异。 —JSY