Enantioselective organocatalytic α-fluorination of aldehydes
Enantioselective organocatalytic α-fluorination of aldehydes
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DOI:
10.1021/ja051805f
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发表时间:
2005-06-22
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15
通讯作者:
MacMillan, DWC
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作者:
Beeson, TD;MacMillan, DWC
The first direct enantioselective catalytic alpha-fluorination of aldehydes has been accomplished. The use of enamine catalysis has provided a new organocatalytic strategy for the enantioselective fluorination of aldehydes to generate a-fluoro aldehydes, an important chiral synthon for medicinal agent synthesis. The use of imidazolidinone 1 as the asymmetric catalyst has been found to mediate the fluorination of a large variety of aldehyde substrates with N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide serving as the electrophilic source of fluorine. A diverse spectrum of aldehyde substrates can also be accommodated in this new organocatalytic transformation. While catalyst quantities of 20 mol % were generally employed in this study, successful halogenation can be accomplished using catalyst loadings as low as 2.5 mol %.