Intramolecular Pd(0)-Catalyzed Reactions of (2-Iodoanilino)-aldehydes: A Joint Experimental–Computational Study
摘要:
An extensive joint experimental-computational density functional theory (DFT) study has been carried out to gain insight into the factors that control the chemoselectivity (i.e., acylation vs alpha-arylation reaction) of palladium-catalyzed cyclizations of (2-iodoanilino)-aldehydes. To this end, the nature of the tethers joining the aniline nitrogen and the aldehyde moiety, different palladium precatalysts and reaction conditions (base and temperature), as well as different additives (mono- and bidendate ligands) has been explored. The adequate selection of these variables allows for the control of the selectivity of the process. Thus, (2-iodoanilino)-aldehydes generally lead to the formation of nucleophilic addition derived products when Cs2CO3/Et3N is used as base. In contrast, the use of stronger bases like (KOBu)-O-t (in the presence of PhOH) mainly forms alpha-arylation reaction products. The different reaction pathways leading to the experimentally observed reaction products have been studied by means of computational tools.
Intramolecular Pd(0)-Catalyzed Reactions of (2-Iodoanilino)-aldehydes: A Joint Experimental–Computational Study
摘要:
An extensive joint experimental-computational density functional theory (DFT) study has been carried out to gain insight into the factors that control the chemoselectivity (i.e., acylation vs alpha-arylation reaction) of palladium-catalyzed cyclizations of (2-iodoanilino)-aldehydes. To this end, the nature of the tethers joining the aniline nitrogen and the aldehyde moiety, different palladium precatalysts and reaction conditions (base and temperature), as well as different additives (mono- and bidendate ligands) has been explored. The adequate selection of these variables allows for the control of the selectivity of the process. Thus, (2-iodoanilino)-aldehydes generally lead to the formation of nucleophilic addition derived products when Cs2CO3/Et3N is used as base. In contrast, the use of stronger bases like (KOBu)-O-t (in the presence of PhOH) mainly forms alpha-arylation reaction products. The different reaction pathways leading to the experimentally observed reaction products have been studied by means of computational tools.
A novel asymmetric nickel‐based procedure has been developed in which CO2 fixation is achieved as a second step of a truncated Heckcoupling. For this, a new chiral ligand has been prepared and shown to achieve enantiomeric excesses up to 99 %. The overall process efficiently furnishes chiral 2,3‐dihydrobenzofuran‐3‐ylacetic acids, an important class of bioactive products, from easy to prepare starting
respect to data, studies have mainly focused on stereoconvergent reactions of racemic alkyl electrophiles. Here, we report an enantioselective cross-electrophile aryl-alkenylation reaction of unactivatedalkenes. This method provides access to a number of biologically important chiral molecules such as dihydrobenzofurans, indolines, and indanes. The incorporated alkenyl group is suitable for further