Basic instinct: design, synthesis and evaluation of (+)-sparteine surrogates for asymmetric synthesis
Basic instinct: design, synthesis and evaluation of (+)-sparteine surrogates for asymmetric synthesis
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DOI:
10.1039/b711420f
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发表时间:
2008-01-01
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4.9
通讯作者:
O'Brien, Peter
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作者:
O'Brien, Peter
(-)-Sparteine, a naturally occurring lupin alkaloid, is widely used as a chiral ligand for asymmetric synthesis. To address the limitation that sparteine is only available as its (-)-antipode, our group introduced a family of (+)-sparteine surrogates that are structurally similar to (+)-sparteine but lack the D-ring. After briefly summarising the design aspect, this feature article provides an overview of synthetic routes to the sparteine surrogates and a detailed comparison with (2)-sparteine in a range of asymmetric reactions. The main conclusions are: (i) the (+)-sparteine surrogates are most easily prepared starting from (2)-cytisine extracted from Laburnum anagyroides seeds; (ii) in nearly all examples, use of the (+)-sparteine surrogates produced essentially equal but opposite enantioselectivity compared to (2)-sparteine and (iii) the N-Me-substituted (+)-sparteine surrogate is the most useful and versatile of those investigated.