Design, Synthesis, and Application of Enantioselective Coupling Reagent with a Traceless Chiral Auxiliary

Stable chiral N-triazinylbrucinium tetrafluoroborate enantioselectively activates racemic carboxylic acids yielding enantiomerically enriched amides, esters, and dipeptides with er from 8:92 to 0.5:99.5. Due to the departure of a chiral auxiliary after the activation of the carboxylic function, all of the subsequent stages of the coupling reaction proceed without any perturbation caused by a chirality discriminator (traceless). Therefore, the advantageous coupling conditions, configuration, and enantiomeric purity of the final product are entirely predictable from the model experiment.