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Absolute stereochemistry assignment of N-phosphorylimine-derived aza-Diels-Alder adducts with TDDFT CD calculations
Lorenzo Di Bari1, Stéphane Guillarme, Stephen Hermitage
1Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
N-phosphorylimines undergo Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions with Danishefsky's diene. Application of the chiral catalyst zinc(II)-(S)-BINOL results in good-to-low asymmetric induction but poor chemical conversion. However, the absolute stereochemistry of novel aza-Diels-Alder cycloadducts, such as diethyl 4-oxo-2-phenyl-3,4-dihydropyridin-1(2H)-ylphosphonate, can be determined using circular dichroism (CD). Comparison between experimental and TDDFT-calculated CD spectrum shows that use of the (S)-catalyst results in predominant formation of the (6R) cycloadducts.
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