Toward and Around Nitrogen-Containing Molecules: Synthesis, Asymmetric Induction and Mechanistic Studies.

该项目的全球科学目标是研究各种含氮分子的合成、生物学和物理性质。C-N键的生成仍然是合成有机化学中的一个重要挑战，特别是手性胺的立体异构体的生成。含氮分子是一类重要的化合物研究，因为它们是生物活性分子的普遍成分；“超过75%的药物和候选药物含有胺的功能。”刘，科根，埃尔曼，j。化学。社会科学，1997,119,9913)。此外，许多表现出有趣性质的新型有机材料也含有氮原子。

The global scientific objective of this project is to study the synthesis, biological, and physical properties of various nitrogen-containing molecules. The creation of C-N bonds is still an important challenge in synthetic organic chemistry, especially to produce chiral amines as one stereoisomer. Nitrogen-containing molecules are an important class of compounds to study, as they are ubiquitous components of biologically active molecules; "greater than 75% of drugs and drug candidates incorporate amine functionality." (Liu, Cogan, Ellman, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 9913). Furthermore, many novel organic materials that display interesting properties also incorporate nitrogen atoms. My group has been interested at using metal nitrene species to create C-N bonds. Novel metal nitrene precursors, namely N-tosyl- and N-mesyl-oxycarbamates have been developed for the synthesis of oxazolidinones, aziridines, benzylic, allylic, and propargylic amines, as well as sulfilimines. In many cases, stereoselective reactions were achieved to produce the desired chiral nitrogen-containing molecules with high level of diastereoselectivity. There are many aspects of this chemistry that remain unexplored, and this proposal will address these unsolved areas. Intramolecular C-H amination reactions from sulfonyoxycarbamates using rhodium dimer catalysts produced oxazolidinones in good to high yields. However, despite many efforts by us, and others, no general asymmetric version of this reaction has been reported. Furthermore, rhodium is among the most expensive metals. We have recently determined that iron complexes could also catalyze this reaction and we plan to develop novel ligands to induce stereoselectivities. We have recently developed a novel stereoselective method to synthesize chiral sulfimines. Few stereoselective methods have been reported to synthesize sulfilimines, and none furnish aliphatic derivatives in high yield and stereoselectivity. Importantly, the recent discovery of sulfilimine crosslinks in collagen IV net