Development of Asymmetric Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Organotin-Alkoxide Reagents

A highly enantioselective approach towards optically active γ-amino alcohols by tin-catalyzed kinetic resolution of 1,3-amino alcohols

A highly enantioselective kinetic resolution of racemic 1,3-amino alcohols via O-Acylation was achieved using a chiral organotin as the catalyst. Alkyl- and aryl-substituted 1,3-amino alcohols were resolved with excellent efficiencies to afford the recovered 1,3-amino alcohols and acylative products with high enantioselectivities, with s factors up to >600. Notably, the chiral organotin catalyst was more selective for anti-1,3-amino alcohols than for syn-isomers. A Gram-scale reaction with loading using 2 mol% catalysts demonstrated the utility of this protocol.

Investigating the structural chemistry of organotin(IV) compounds: recent advances

Organotin(IV) compounds have been considered for their outstanding industrial, medical and specific applications in the synthesis of various types of chemical compounds. In this review, we have focused on the structural chemistry of organotin(IV) compounds, including coordination chemistry, the effect of structure on reactions, bond formations from the perspective of structure and investigation of the structure of organotin(IV) compounds in different phases. The structural chemistry of organotin(IV) compounds is subject to interest due to their major impact on predicting the properties and drumming up support for pushing back the frontiers of synthesis of organotin(IV) compounds with advanced properties.

One-Pot Domino Aldol Reaction of Indium Enolates Affording 6-Deoxy-α-D,L-altropyranose Derivatives: Synthesis, Mechanism, and Computational Results

The domino-aldol-aldol-hemiacetal-reaction cascade of indium and other group 13 metal enolates furnished 6-deoxy-α-D,L-altropyranose derivatives in up to 99% yield under thermodynamic control. At lower temperature and thus under kinetic control, the reaction proceeded in a much less diastereoselective manner. The changeover from kinetic to thermodynamic control operating in this multistep domino-aldol-aldol-hemiacetal protocol was used for probing the efficiency of DFT computations. Calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G(d)/LANL2DZ level provided a mechanistic picture in full agreement with the experimental outcome.