Mukherjee M, Zhou Y, Dai Y, Gupta AK, Pulgam VR, Staples RJ, Wulff WD. Catalyst-Controlled Multicomponent Aziridination of Chiral Aldehydes.
Chemistry 2017;
23:2552-2556. [PMID:
28005302 DOI:
10.1002/chem.201605955]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
A highly diastereoselective and enantioselective method for the multicomponent aziridination of chiral aldehydes has been developed with BOROX catalysts of the VANOL (3,3'-diphenyl-2,2'-bi-1-naphthol) and VAPOL (2,2'-diphenyl-(4-biphenanthrol)) ligands. Very high to perfect catalyst control is observed with most all substrates examined including aldehydes with chiral centers in the α- and β-positions. High catalyst control was also observed for a number of chiral heterocyclic aldehydes allowing for the preparation of epoxy aziridines, bis(aziridines) and ethylene diaziridines. Application of this reaction in the synthesis of β3 -homo-d-alloisoleucine and β3 -homo-l-isoleucine is reported.
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