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- Benzylic stereogenic centers are important in natural products and drugs, and creating them through selective reactions is a challenge.
- Researchers have found a way to achieve this by using chiral counteranions with secondary benzylic cations in catalytic asymmetric reactions, leading to high enantioselectivity.
- Their method involves using weakly basic counteranions to stabilize reactive carbocation intermediates, which helps avoid unwanted reactions that would convert them to styrene.
Article Abstract
Benzylic stereogenic centers are ubiquitous in natural products and pharmaceuticals. A potentially general, though challenging, approach toward their selective creation would be asymmetric unimolecular nucleophilic substitution (S1) reactions that proceed through highly reactive benzylic cations. We now report a broadly applicable solution to this problem by identifying chiral counteranions that pair with secondary benzylic cations to engage in catalytic asymmetric C-C, C-O, and C-N bond-forming reactions with excellent enantioselectivity. The critical cationic intermediate can be accessed from different precursors via Lewis- or Brønsted acid catalysis. Key to our strategy is the use of only weakly basic, confined counteranions that are posited to prolong the lifetime of the carbocation, thereby avoiding nonproductive deprotonation pathways to the corresponding styrene.
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