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Ye-Wei Huang1, Yue-Na Duan1, Tianze Zhang1
1State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
Enantioenriched homoallylic amines are common motifs in bioactive molecules and versatile intermediates in nitrogen-containing molecule synthesis. We report a Ni(0)-catalyzed enantioselective redox-neutral three-component coupling of aldehydes, sulfonamides, and terminal alkenes that provides formal imino-ene-type products. Enabled by in situ sulfonyl imine generation and a chiral SIPHOS-PE phosphoramidite ligand, the reaction furnishes N-sulfonyl homoallylic amines with high regioselectivity and excellent enantioselectivity. The method is most effective for aliphatic aldehydes and allylarene-derived terminal alkenes, while functionalized allyl esters, allyl phosphonates, heteroaryl alkenes, and complex-molecule-derived substrates are also tolerated. Mechanistic experiments and DFT calculations are consistent with a nickelacycle-mediated pathway involving imine/alkene oxidative cyclization. This work establishes a redox-neutral asymmetric alkene-imine coupling manifold for the three-component synthesis of enantioenriched homoallylic amines from readily available starting materials.
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