Guanidine Organocatalyst for the Asymmetric Mannich-Type Reaction between α-Isothiocyanato Imide and Sulfonyl Imines
Guanidine Organocatalyst for the Asymmetric Mannich-Type Reaction between α-Isothiocyanato Imide and Sulfonyl Imines
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DOI:
10.1002/chem.201002571
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发表时间:
2011-02-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Feng, Xiaoming
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作者:
Chen, Xiaohong;Dong, Shunxi;Feng, Xiaoming
Xiaohong Chen, Shunxi Dong, Zhen Qiao, Yin Zhu, Mingsheng Xie, Lili Lin, Xiaohua Liu,* and Xiaoming Feng*[a] α, β-Diamino acids are key structural components in many molecules,[1] such as biologically active natural products and synthetic materials.[2] Various methods for the preparation of optically active α, β-diamino derivatives have been established.[3] Most of these approaches have focused on Mannich reactions of glycine imines or nitro esters with various imines, which provide a direct and favorable method for the construction of these compounds.[4–6] In recent years, α-isothiocyanato imides have been employed as glycine imine equivalents in Mannich reactions. Willis and co-workers reported the first example of a Mannich reaction of the α-isothiocyanato imide with imines using chiral magnesium complex derivatives from DBFox.[7a] Seidel s group and Zhong s group both found that quinidine-derived organocatalysts could catalyze the reaction with good diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity.[7b, c] Despite these excellent results, the design of new catalyst systems remains a considerable challenge. The guanidine group plays important roles in molecular recognition and as a catalyst in biological systems owing to its characteristics, such as high pKa value and dual hydrogen-bonding.[8] Over the past few years, chiral guanidines have become an attractive target in asymmetric organocatalysis and have been shown to be powerful reagents for enantioselective reactions.[9–10] Herein, we present a readily prepared chiral bisguanidine organocatalyst for the asymmetric Mannich-type reaction of α-isothiocyanato imide with N-Ts-protected imines, which provides excellent results under mild conditions.Initially, monoguanidine 1a was synthesized to catalyze the asymmetric Mannich-type reaction because it could serve as a bifunctional catalyst.[9f] Moderate results were obtained from α-isothiocyanato imide 2 and N-Ts-imine 3 derived from benzaldehyde (Table 1, entry 1). A series of bisguanidines with a chiral or achiral linkage were synthesized to improve the outcomes (Scheme1). Chiral bisguanidine 1d derived from benzene-1, 3-diamine was superior to 1b and 1c derived from (1S, 2S)-1, 2-diphenylethylenediamine and (1S, 2S)-cyclohexane-1, 2-diamine, respectively, giving the desired product in 96% yield,> 95: 5 dr and 82% ee (Table 1, entry 4 vs. entries 2 and 3); the linkage was able to adjust the spatial arrangement of the two guanidine moieties to meet the proper asymmetric induction. A solvent survey revealed that adducts could be obtained with the best results, 94% yield,> 95: 5 dr and 89% ee using CHCl3 as cosolvent (Table 1, entry 5, for details, see Supporting Infor-