Fluorobissulfonylmethyl Iodides: An Efficient Scaffold for Halogen Bonding Catalysts with an sp<sup>3</sup>-Hybridized Carbon–Iodine Moiety
作者:Kohei Matsuzaki、Hiroto Uno、Etsuko Tokunaga、Norio Shibata
DOI:10.1021/acscatal.8b01330
日期:2018.7.6
The halogen-bond donors FBSM-I and FBDT-I, which contain an sp(3)-hybridized carbon iodine (C-sp(3)-I) moiety, were designed and synthesized. The highly electron-withdrawing nature of the fluorobissulfonyl-methane scaffold leads to the generation of sigma-holes on the surface of the iodine atoms in FBSM-I and FBDT-I. Mukaiyama aldol reactions and hydrogen-transfer reductions are efficiently catalyzed by FBSM-I and FBDT-I under neutral and mild reaction conditions. The driving force for these transformations should be the halogen bonding induced by FBSM-I and FBDT-I, which was confirmed by DFT calculations, single crystal X-ray diffraction analyses, and NMR titrations.