A new chiral Brønsted acid derived from carboxylic acid and a chiral oxazaborolidinium ion (COBI), as an activator, is introduced. This acid was successfully applied as a catalyst for the highly enantioselective protonation/nucleophilicaddition of diazoesters with carboxylic acids.
Desymmetrizing Asymmetric Ring Expansion of Cyclohexanones with α-Diazoacetates Catalyzed by Chiral Aluminum Lewis Acid
作者:Takuya Hashimoto、Yuki Naganawa、Keiji Maruoka
DOI:10.1021/ja202070j
日期:2011.6.15
in a 2:1 ratio was found to promote novel catalytic asymmetric ring expansion of cyclohexanone with α-substituted α-diazoacetates to give seven-membered rings with an all-carbon quaternary center. Application of this strategy to 4-substituted cyclohexanones opened up a novel way for the catalytic desymmetrizing asymmetric construction of cycloheptanones bearing remote α,δ-chiral centers.
Catalytic Asymmetric Insertion of Diazoesters into Aryl-CHO Bonds: Highly Enantioselective Construction of Chiral All-Carbon Quaternary Centers
作者:Lizhu Gao、Byung Chul Kang、Do Hyun Ryu
DOI:10.1021/ja408196g
日期:2013.10.2
This paper describes a catalytic enantioselective route to synthesize functionalized all-carbonquaternary acyclic systems via a boron Lewis acid-promoted formal C-C insertion of diazoesters into aryl-CHO bonds. In the presence of chiral (S)-oxazaborolidinium cation 1d as a catalyst, the reaction proceeded in good yield (up to 83%) with good regioselectivity (up to 88:12) and excellent enantioselectivity
Improved Palladium-Catalysed Synthesis of α-Benzyl-β-keto Esters
作者:Nicholas Bennett、Anne Goldby、Rachel Pringle
DOI:10.1055/s-0030-1258095
日期:2010.7
This paper describes the development of an imporved protocol for the synthesis of α-benzyl-β-keto esters from aryl bromides via Heck reaction. The use of this protocol to synthesise a variety of diverse α-benzyl-β-keto esters for use in the preparation of new pharmaceutical agents is demonstrated.
Cyclization of Arylacetoacetates to Indene and Dihydronaphthalene Derivatives in Strong Acids. Evidence for Involvement of Further Protonation of O,O-Diprotonated β-Ketoester, Leading to Enhancement of Cyclization
The chemical features, such as substrate stability, product distribution, and substrate generality, and the reaction mechanism of Bronsted superacid-catalyzed cyclization reactions of aromatic ring-containing acetoacetates (beta-ketoesters) were examined in detail. While two types of carbonyl cyclization are possible, i.e., keto cyclization and ester cyclization, the former was found to take place exclusively. The reaction constitutes an efficient method to synthesize indene and 3,4-dihydronapthalene derivatives. Acid-base titration monitored with C-13 NMR spectroscopy showed that the acetoacetates are fully O-1,O-3-diprotonated at H-0 = -11. While the five-membered ring cyclization of the arylacetoacetates proceeded slowly at H-0 = -11, a linear increase in the rate of the cyclization was found with increasing acidity in the high acidity region of H-0 = -11.8 to -13.3. Therefore, the O-1,O-3-diprotonated acetoacetates exhibited some cyclizing reactivity, but they are not the reactive intermediates responsible for the acceleration of the cyclization in the high acidity region. The reactive cationic species might be formed by further protonation (or protosolvation) of the O-1,O-3-diprotonated acetoacetates; i.e., they may be tricationic species. Thermochemical data on the acid-catalyzed cyclization of the arylacetoacetates showed that the activation energy is decreased significantly as compared with that of the related acid-catalyzed cyclization reaction of a compound bearing a single functional group, such as a ketone. These findings indicate that intervention of the trication contributes to the activation of the cyclization of arylacetoacetates in strong acid, and the electron-withdrawing nature of the O-protonated ester functionality significantly increases the electrophilicity of the ketone moiety.