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Development of Heterogeneous Enantioselective Catalysts using Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks MOFs
Published on: January 17, 2020
Enantioselective Oxidative Cyclization/Mannich Addition Enabled by Gold(I)/Chiral Phosphoric Acid Cooperative
Hanlin Wei1, Ming Bao1, Kuiyong Dong1
1Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.
Abstract:
An enantioselective Mannich-type reaction of 3-butynol and nitrones is described, which affords dihydrofuran-3-ones in good yields and with excellent enantioselectivities. The reaction is initiated by gold-catalyzed alkyne oxidation and modification of the resulting gold carbene species with a tethered hydroxy group to form enolate species; the reaction terminates with an enantioselective Mannich-type addition with the assistance of chiral phosphoric acid (CPA) and hydrogen bonding. This novel pattern of alkyne transformation involving chemical bond cleavage, and a fragment modification and reassembly process, provides an atom- and step-economic method, and is the first example of cooperative asymmetric catalysis in gold-catalyzed alkyne oxidations via an α-oxo gold carbene route.
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