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Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of α-amino esters from sulfoxonium ylides.


ABSTRACT: Described here is the first organocatalytic asymmetric N-H insertion reaction of α-carbonyl sulfoxonium ylides. Without a metal catalyst, this reaction represents an attractive complement to the well-established carbene insertion reactions. As a stable surrogate of diazocarbonyl compounds, sulfoxonium ylides reacted with a range of aryl amines to provide efficient access to α-aryl glycines with excellent enantiocontrol in the presence of a suitable chiral phosphoric acid catalyst. The high stability and weak basicity of sulfoxonium ylides not only enable this protocol to be user-friendly and practically useful, but also preclude catalyst decomposition, which is crucial to the excellent amenability to electron-poor amine nucleophiles. Detailed mechanistic studies indicated that the initial protonation is reversible and the C-N bond formation is rate-determining.

SUBMITTER: Guo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8386753 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of α-amino esters from sulfoxonium ylides.

Guo Wengang W   Wang Min M   Han Zhengyu Z   Huang Hai H   Sun Jianwei J  

Chemical science 20210707 33


Described here is the first organocatalytic asymmetric N-H insertion reaction of α-carbonyl sulfoxonium ylides. Without a metal catalyst, this reaction represents an attractive complement to the well-established carbene insertion reactions. As a stable surrogate of diazocarbonyl compounds, sulfoxonium ylides reacted with a range of aryl amines to provide efficient access to α-aryl glycines with excellent enantiocontrol in the presence of a suitable chiral phosphoric acid catalyst. The high stabi  ...[more]

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