Project description:Reduction of waste is an important goal of modern organic synthesis. We report herein oxidase reactivity for enantioselective intramolecular copper-catalyzed alkene carboamination and carboetherification reactions where previously used stoichiometric MnO2 has been replaced with oxygen. This substitution was risky as the reaction mechanism is thought to involve C-C bond formation via addition of alkyl carbon radicals to arenes. Such intermediates are also susceptible to C-O bond formation via O2 addition. Control of absolute stereochemistry under aerobic conditions was also uncertain. The oxidative cyclization efficiencies appear to track with the ease of the radical addition to the arenes.
Project description:The copper-catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular aminooxygenation of alkenes is reported herein. This is the first report of an enantioselective intramolecular alkene aminooxygenation process. N-Arylsulfonyl-2-allylanilines and 4-pentenylarylsulfonamides cyclize in high yield and with good enantioselectivity, providing new chiral methyleneoxy-functionalized dihydroindolines and pyrrolidines. Tetramethylaminopyridyl radical (TEMPO) serves as both the source of the oxygen and the stoichiometric oxidant. These reactions are catalyzed by copper(II) triflate, complexed with (4S,5R)-Bis-Phbox. The unprotected aminoalcohols can be obtained by sequential dissolving metal reductions of the N-S and O-N bonds.
Project description:A new method for the enantioselective synthesis of hexahydro-1H-benz[f]indoles is described. This copper-catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular alkene carboamination process can install vicinal tertiary and quaternary carbon stereocenters with high levels of diastereo- and enantioselectivity. The C-C bond-forming component of the reaction constitutes a C-H functionalization and no electronic activation of the aryl ring that undergoes addition is required. A known 5-HT(1A) receptor antagonist was synthesized efficiently using this method.
Project description:The origin of the enantioselectivity in the [Cu(R,R)-Ph-box](OTf)2-catalyzed intramolecular aminooxygenation of N-sulfonyl-2-allylanilines and 4-pentenylsulfonamides to afford chiral indolines and pyrrolidines, respectively, was investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The pyrrolidine-forming transition-state model for the major enantiomer involves a chairlike seven-membered cyclization transition state with a distorted square-planar copper center, while the transition-state model for the minor enantiomer was found to have a boatlike cyclization geometry having a distorted tetrahedral geometry about the copper center. Similar copper-geometry trends were observed in the chiral indoline-forming reactions. These models were found to be qualitatively consistent with experimental results and allow for rationalization of how substitution on the substrate backbone and N-sulfonyl substituent affect the level of enantioselectivity in these and related copper(II)-catalyzed enantioselective reactions.
Project description:The copper(II) carboxylate-promoted intramolecular carboamination reactions of variously substituted gamma-alkenyl amides have been investigated. These oxidative cyclization reactions efficiently provide polycyclic lactams, useful intermediates in nitrogen heterocycle synthesis, in good to excellent yields. The efficiency of the carboamination process is dependent upon the structure of the amide backbone as well as the nitrogen substituent.
Project description:A copper-catalyzed enantioselective arylalkynylation of alkenes with diaryliodonium salt and a monosubstituted alkyne is reported. The three-component coupling reactions proceed under mild reaction conditions with a broad substrate scope, leading to synthetically valuable 1,2-diaryl-3-butynes. The key to the success of this chemistry is the employment of the chiral bisoxazoline-phenylaniline (BOPA) ligand. A novel reaction pathway involving the phenyl radical generation under thermal copper catalysis is proposed according to mechanistic studies.
Project description:Chiral saturated oxygen heterocycles are important components of bioactive compounds. Cyclization of alcohols onto pendant alkenes is a direct route to their synthesis, but few catalytic enantioselective methods enabling cyclization onto unactivated alkenes exist. Herein reported is a highly efficient copper-catalyzed cyclization of γ-unsaturated pentenols which terminates in C-C bond formation, a net alkene carboetherification. Both intra- and intermolecular C-C bond formations are demonstrated, thus yielding functionalized chiral tetrahydrofurans as well as fused-ring and bridged-ring oxabicyclic products. Transition-state calculations support a cis-oxycupration stereochemistry-determining step.
Project description:Bridged bicyclic rings containing nitrogen heterocycles are important motifs in bioactive small organic molecules. An enantioselective copper-catalyzed alkene carboamination reaction that creates bridged heterocycles is reported herein. Two new rings are formed in this alkene carboamination reaction where N-sulfonyl-2-aryl-4-pentenamines are converted to 6-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octanes using [Ph-Box-Cu](OTf)2 or related catalysts in the presence of MnO2 as stoichiometric oxidant in moderate to good yields and generally excellent enantioselectivities. Two new stereocenters are formed in the reaction, and the C-C bond-forming arene addition is a net C-H functionalization.
Project description:Copper-catalyzed intermolecular carboamination of alkenes with α-halocarbonyls and amines is presented with 42 examples. Electron rich, electron poor, and internal styrenes, as well as α-olefins, are functionalized with α-halocarbonyls and aryl or aliphatic amines. Mechanistic investigations suggest the reaction is proceeding through addition of a carbon-centered radical across an olefin followed by oxidation to form a 5-membered oxocarbenium intermediate and subsequent nucleophilic ring opening to forge the C-N bond.
Project description:Despite the maturity of alkene 1,2-difunctionalization reactions involving C-N bond formation, a key limitation across aminofunctionalization methods is incompatibility with substrates bearing medicinally relevant N-heterocycles. Using a cooperative ligand-substrate catalyst activation strategy, we have developed an aerobic, copper-catalyzed alkene aminooxygenation method that exhibits broad tolerance for β,γ-unsaturated carbamates bearing aromatic azaheterocycle substitution. The synthetic potential of this methodology was demonstrated by engaging a densely-functionalized vonoprazan analogue and elaborating an amino oxygenated product to synthesize a heteroarylated analogue precursor of the FDA-approved antibiotic chloramphenicol.