- A catalytic Michael/Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons cascade reaction for enantioselective synthesis of thiochromenes
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A catalytic enantioselective sulfa-Michael/Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction cascade has been developed, taking advantage of phosphonate as an electrophilic activator and a traceless binding site. Using a chiral bifunctional urea derivative as the catalyst, a variety of aryl and heteroaryl substituted thiochromenes was obtained in excellent yield with a high level of enantioselectivity. Copyright
- Choudhury, Abhijnan Ray,Mukherjee, Santanu
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supporting information
p. 1989 - 1995
(2013/08/23)
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- Quantification of the electrophilic reactivities of aldehydes, imines, and enones
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The rates of the epoxidation reactions of aldehydes, of the aziridination reactions of aldimines, and of the cyclopropanation reactions of α,β-unsaturated ketones with aryl-stabilized dimethylsulfonium ylides have been determined photometrically in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). All of these sulfur ylide-mediated cyclization reactions as well as the addition reactions of stabilized carbanions to N-tosyl-activated aldimines have been shown to follow a second-order rate law, where the rate constants reflect the (initial) CC bond formation between nucleophile and electrophile. The derived second-order rate constants (log k2) have been combined with the known nucleophilicity parameters (N, sN) of the aryl-stabilized sulfur ylides 4a,b and of the acceptor-substituted carbanions 4c-h to calculate the electrophilicity parameters E of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes (1a-i), N-acceptor-substituted aromatic aldimines (2a-e), and α,β-unsaturated ketones (3a-f) according to the linear free-energy relationship log k 2 = sN(N + E) as defined in J. Am. Chem. Soc.2001, 123, 9500-9512. The data reported in this work provide the first quantitative comparison of the electrophilic reactivities of aldehydes, imines, and simple Michael acceptors in DMSO with carbocations and cationic metal-π complexes within our comprehensive electrophilicity scale.
- Appel, Roland,Mayr, Herbert
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supporting information; experimental part
p. 8240 - 8251
(2011/07/29)
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- A convenient synthesis of (E)-α-cyano and (E)-α-ethoxycarbonyl vinylphosphonates
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A new olefination catalysed by a base (KOBu(t)) and its application to the stereoselective synthesis of substituted (E)-α-cyano and (E)-α- ethoxycarbonyl vinylphosphonates is described.
- Shen, Yanchang,Jiang, Guo-Fang
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p. 140 - 141
(2007/10/03)
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