Full Chirality Transfer in the Conversion of Secondary Alcohols into Tertiary Boronic Esters and Alcohols Using Lithiation-Borylation Reactions
Full Chirality Transfer in the Conversion of Secondary Alcohols into Tertiary Boronic Esters and Alcohols Using Lithiation-Borylation Reactions
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201001371
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Aggarwal, Varinder K.
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作者:
Bagutski, Viktor;French, Rosalind M.;Aggarwal, Varinder K.
A general method for the preparation of fully substituted carbon atoms (eg quaternary stereogenic centers [1] or tertiary alcohols [2]) that routinely gives high enantioselectivities (> 96% ee) with broad substrate scope is one of the most challenging goals in organic synthesis.[3] Our research group has recently described a conceptually new method that comes close to meeting such a challenge (Scheme1).[4] In this process, readily available enantioenriched secondary alcohols were first converted into carbamate compounds. Lithiation and subsequent reaction with boron reagents gave, after oxidative workup, tertiary alcohols with high ee values. Perhaps the most intriguing facet of this novel methodology was that in all cases the reactions occurred with essentially complete inversion of configuration when boranes were employed but almost complete retention of configuration when boronic esters were used. Although the reaction worked well for simple substrates (> 90% ee), we have found that the introduction of sterically more demanding groups in the carbamate or boronic ester or the introduction of electronwithdrawing aromatic groups in the carbamate resulted in a considerable erosion of enantioselectivity. Herein, we provide a rationale for the observed decrease in enantioselectivity and through understanding the intricacies of the process, we also present a solution to the problem that now results in> 98% ee for all the substrates tested, even the most demanding.