Broad Spectrum Enolate Equivalent for Catalytic Chemo-, Diastereo-, and Enantioselective Addition to N-Boc Imines.

ABSTRACT: Alkynyl ketones are attractive but challenging nucleophiles in enolate chemistry. Their susceptibility to other reactions such as Michael additions and the difficulty of controlling the enolate geometry make them difficult substrates. Mannich-type reactions, which previously have not been reported using N-carbamoyl-imines with simple ketone enolates, became our objective. In this report, we describe the first direct catalytic Mannich-type reaction between various ynones and N-Boc imines, whose stereocontrol presumably derives from catalyst control of enolate geometry. This method produces α-substituted β-amino ynones with excellent chemo-, diastereo-, and enantioselectivity. The products can be readily transformed into a broad range of molecular scaffolds upon further one-step transformati

SUBMITTER: Trost BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4866649 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature