Dual catalysis for enantioselective convergent synthesis of enantiopure vicinal amino alcohols.

ABSTRACT: Enantiopure vicinal amino alcohols and derivatives are essential structural motifs in natural products and pharmaceutically active molecules, and serve as main chiral sources in asymmetric synthesis. Currently known asymmetric catalytic protocols for this class of compounds are still rare and often suffer from limited scope of substrates, relatively low regio- or stereoselectivities, thus prompting the development of more effective methodologies. Herein we report a dual catalytic strategy for the convergent enantioselective synthesis of vicinal amino alcohols. The method features a radical-type Zimmerman-Traxler transition state formed from a rare earth metal with a nitrone and an aromatic ketyl radical in the presence of chiral N,N'-dioxide ligands. In addition to high level of enantio- a

SUBMITTER: Ye CX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789022 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature