Light-Driven Enantioselective Organocatalytic β-Benzylation of Enals

被引:55
作者
Dell'Amico, Luca [3 ]
Fernandez-Alvarez, Victor M. [3 ]
Maseras, Feliu [2 ,3 ]
Melchiorre, Paolo [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Catalan Inst Res & Adv Studies, ICREA, Passeig Lluis Co 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
[2] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Quim, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[3] ICIQ, Inst Chem Res Catalonia, Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, Ave Paisos Catalans 16, Tarragona 43007, Spain
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
asymmetric catalysis; benzylation; organocatalysis; photochemistry; synthetic methods; HYDROXY-O-QUINODIMETHANES; CONJUGATE ADDITION; CATALYSIS; 2-METHYLBENZOPHENONE; MECHANISMS; HAMIGERANS;
D O I
10.1002/anie.201612159
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
A photochemical organocatalytic strategy for the direct enantioselective beta-benzylation of alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydes is reported. The chemistry capitalizes upon the light-triggered enolization of 2-alkyl-benzophenones to afford hydroxy-o-quinodinomethanes. These fleeting intermediates are stereoselectively intercepted by chiral iminium ions, transiently formed upon condensation of a secondary amine catalyst with enals. Density functional theory (DFT) studies provided an explanation for why the reaction proceeds through an unconventional Michael-type addition manifold, instead of a classical cycloaddition mechanism and subsequent ring-opening.
引用
收藏
页码:3304 / 3308
页数:5
相关论文
共 33 条
[1]   Managing the Computational Chemistry Big Data Problem: The ioChem-BD Platform [J].
Alvarez-Moreno, M. ;
de Graaf, C. ;
Lopez, N. ;
Maseras, F. ;
Poblet, J. M. ;
Bo, C. .
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING, 2015, 55 (01) :95-103
[2]  
[Anonymous], ANGEW CHEM
[3]  
[Anonymous], 2003, ANGEW CHEM
[4]  
[Anonymous], 2012, CRC HDB ORGANIC PHOT
[5]   Highly Efficient Redox Isomerisation of Allylic Alcohols Catalysed by Pyrazole-Based Ruthenium(IV) Complexes in Water: Mechanisms of Bifunctional Catalysis in Water [J].
Bellarosa, Luca ;
Diez, Josefina ;
Gimeno, Jose ;
Lledos, Agusti ;
Suarez, Francisco J. ;
Ujaque, Gregori ;
Vicent, Cristian .
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 2012, 18 (25) :7749-7765
[6]   The importance of conformational search: a test case on the catalytic cycle of the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling [J].
Besora, Maria ;
Braga, Ataualpa A. C. ;
Ujaque, Gregori ;
Maseras, Feliu ;
Lledos, Agusti .
THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY ACCOUNTS, 2011, 128 (4-6) :639-646
[7]   IRRADIATION OF 2-METHYLBENZOPHENONE IN PRESENCE OF DIENOPHILES [J].
BLOCK, E ;
STEVENSO.R .
JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1, 1973, (03) :308-313
[8]  
Brimioulle R., 2015, Angew. Chem, V127, P3944
[9]   Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions [J].
Brimioulle, Richard ;
Lenhart, Dominik ;
Maturi, Mark M. ;
Bach, Thorsten .
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 2015, 54 (13) :3872-3890
[10]   Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Organocatalysis: Mechanisms, Reactivities, and Selectivities [J].
Cheong, Paul Ha-Yeon ;
Legault, Claude Y. ;
Um, Joann M. ;
Celebi-Oelcuem, Nihan ;
Houk, K. N. .
CHEMICAL REVIEWS, 2011, 111 (08) :5042-5137