Nitrogen pronucleophiles in the phosphine-catalyzed gamma-addition reaction
Nitrogen pronucleophiles in the phosphine-catalyzed gamma-addition reaction
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DOI:
10.1021/jo970848e
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发表时间:
1997-08-22
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Dake, GR
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作者:
Trost, BM;Dake, GR
The conjugate addition of nucleophilic species to the-carbon of R,-unsaturated systems is a fundamental concept in synthetic organic chemistry. 1 A significant improvement in synthetic design would occur if we could alter the reactivity of Michael acceptors so that 1, 4 addition could be circumvented in favor of other useful transformations. Our discovery of phosphine’s ability to induce addition of carbon and oxygen pronucleophiles to the 4-position of alkynoates led us to test this new reactivity paradigm with nitrogen-based nucleophiles (eq 1). 2, 3 Despite our previous successes, a fear existed that the excellent donor properties of nitrogen in conjugate additions would result in undesired Michael addition products (path a), as opposed to γ-addition mediated by the phosphine-catalyzed process (path b). However, we have found that under our phosphine-catalyzed conditions Michael addition processes are entirely subverted in favor of the desired manifold with a variety of nitrogen nucleophiles, including hydroxamic acid esters, providing an entry into tripeptide structural mimics.In order to test the feasibility of these processes, methyl 2-butynoate (1) was reacted with a number of nitrogen pronucleophiles using our phosphine catalysis system, which also involves a general acid-base catalyst (eq 2). For example, an equimolar mixture of 1 with p-toluenesulfonamide with 50% acetic acid and 50% sodium acetate using 10% triphenylphosphine (tpp) in toluene at 90 C produced the adduct 2a in 72% yield. 4 The structure of compound 2a is clearly established by the presence of the new olefinic resonances in the 1H NMR spectrum [(δ 6.75 (dt, J) 15.7, 5.2 Hz, 1H); 5.94 (dt, J) 15.7, 1.86 Hz, 1H)]. The use of 5% of the bidentate phosphines bis (diphenylphosphino) methane (dppm) or 1, 2-bis (diphenylphosphino) ethane (dppe) as catalyst led to a much lower recovery of 2, 28% and 39%, respectively. The use of a larger amount (15%) of 1, 3-bis (diphenylphosphino) propane (dppp) with acetic acidsodium acetate catalyzed the condensation of 1 with phthalimide or tetrahydrophthalimide 3 yielding compounds 2b and 2c in 88% and 57%(81% brsm), respectively.