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Efficient Construction of Drug-like Bispirocyclic Scaffolds Via Organocatalytic Cycloadditions of α-Imino γ-Lactones and Alkylidene Pyrazolones
Published on: February 7, 2019
Copper-catalyzed enantioselective propargylic [3 + 2] cycloaddition: access to oxygen heterocycles featuring a
Shweta Rohilla1, Zahid Ahmad Khan1, Vinod K Singh1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India. vinodks@iitk.ac.in.
Abstract:
A Cu(I)-Pybox-diPh catalyzed enantioselective [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of CF3-substituted tertiary propargylic esters as C2-bis-electrophiles with cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds as C,O-bis-nucleophiles has been reported. The methodology furnishes a variety of optically active oxygen heterocycles containing a CF3-substituted quaternary stereocenter in good yields and enantioselectivities. Moreover, the scalability of the reaction and transformations of chiral compounds into their derivatives demonstrated the synthetic and practical relevance of the approach.
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