Herein we report the first use of -quinone diimide for the aminative dearomatization of 2,3-disubstituted indoles to furnish C3 aza-quaternary chiral indolenines. This approach, which proceeds via an electrophilic 1,6-addition of -quinone diimide, allows the synthesis of an array of optically active aza-quaternary indolenines with high yields and excellent enantioselectivities. A one-pot approach of the same has also been established to further improve the synthetic accessibility of this protocol.
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J Am Chem Soc
January 2025
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin 78712, Texas, United States.
Sci Adv
November 2024
Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Despite the considerable potential applications for helically chiral molecules across various sectors, their catalytic asymmetric synthesis remains nascent and has seen very limited advancement compared to that of central and axial chiral compounds, primarily owing to the scarcity of available starting materials and the immense challenges associated with achieving stereochemical control. Herein, we report an innovative approach to the facile synthesis and catalytic kinetic resolution of uniquely structured and stereochemically complex helical polycyclic phenols by using a steric hindrance-regulated enantioselective dearomative amination reaction. The distinguished aspects of this method include the exceptional stability of the dearomatized products and impressive versatility of the recovered substrates in the construction of enantioenriched helical frameworks.
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September 2024
Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laboratories of Molecular Recognition 95 Chieftan Way Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
This article describes the first enantioselective synthesis of the Tasmanian marine alkaloid (+)-cylindricine B. The concise construction of the compound hinged on dearomative retrosynthetic logic combined with a tactical advance in the generation of congested, cyclic, alpha-tertiary amine centers. The scope of this key coupling reaction was explored in addition to providing a synthetic application for Cu-catalyzed enantioselective dearomatization of -acyl-pyridiniums.
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August 2024
Organic Synthesis and Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, IIT Indore, Madhya Pradesh 453552, India.
Synthetically challenging spirolactams were developed in good yields and regio-selectivity through a step-up oxidative dearomatization of easily accessible arenols tethered to esters in the presence of quaternary ammonium tribromide as an economic oxidant and amines. The reaction mechanism associated with this unprecedented dearomative lactamisation has been forecasted with a series of controlled experiments and DFT studies.
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October 2024
State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals of Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China.
Aminoarenes are important molecules for broad applications in nearly all modern industries that involve chemicals. Direct and site-selective C-H bond amination of arenes provides the most efficient and convenient method to prepare aminoarenes. A main challenge is to selectively install the amino group (or other functional groups) to the distal para-carbon of arenes (especially multi-substituted arenes) during the C-H bond functionalization events.
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