Publications by authors named "Michael T Peruzzi"

Site selective amide reductions of the cyclic undecapeptide, cyclosporine A, have been developed using the combination of a heteroleptic borane catalyst and a silane reductant. Tertiary silane MeEtSiH provides two unique cyclosporine A derivatives, one of which can be readily diversified in subsequent reactions. The secondary silane EtSiH enables divergent reactivity that uses a free hydroxyl group to direct the reduction.

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The heteroleptic borane catalyst (C6F5)2B(CH2CH2CH2)BPin is found to hydrosilylatively reduce amides under mild conditions. Simple tertiary amides can be reduced using Me2EtSiH, whereas tertiary benzamides required a more reactive secondary silane, Et2SiH2, for efficient reduction. The catalytic system described exhibits exceptional chemoselectivity in the reduction of oligoamides and tolerates functionalities which are prone to reduction under similar conditions.

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Claisen rearrangements of allyl aryl ethers to generate enones bearing all carbon quaternary centers are accelerated by PhPAuNTf under mild conditions in good yields. Multiple C-C bond containing variants of the allyl fragment are viable, including alkylidenecyclopropanes, allenes, and alkynes, which generate all-carbon stereogenic centers substituted with vinyl cyclopropanes, 1,3-butadienyl, and allenyl substituents, respectively, for subsequent synthetic manipulation. With allyl phenyl ethers, the product of the [3,3] rearrangements can be trapped by a tandem [4 + 2] cycloaddition to generate complex molecular scaffolds from readily available, achiral starting materials.

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