Fluorinated Amine Stereotriads via Allene Amination

Progress toward the Total Synthesis of Jogyamycin Using a Tandem Ichikawa/Winstein Rearrangement

Jogyamycin is a densely functionalized aminocyclopentitol that displays potent antiprotozoal activity. Herein, we report a route toward this natural product that utilizes an unprecedented transformation involving a tandem Ichikawa-Winstein rearrangement to install the C-1/C-2 diamine core. Attempts to further functionalize the C-3/C-4 alkene en route to jogyamycin are also discussed.

Recent updates and future perspectives in aziridine synthesis and reactivity

In this review, selected recent advances in the preparation and reactivity of aziridines using modern synthetic approaches are highlighted, while comparing these new strategies with more classical approaches. This critical analysis is designed to help identify current gaps in the field and is showcasing new and exciting opportunities to move the chemistry of aziridines forward in the future.

Synthesis and applications of methyleneaziridines

Methyleneaziridines (MAs) are a special subset of aziridines featuring an exocyclic C–C double bond on the three-membered ring. They have found great potential in organic synthesis. In this review, the structural characterization of MAs, synthetic methods, chemical transformations and mechanisms, especially the advances achieved over the past decade are comprehensively summarized.

This review surveys the structural characterization, synthetic methods, chemical transformations and mechanisms of methyleneaziridines, especially the advances achieved over the past decade.

Oxidative Cyclization of Sulfamates onto Pendant Alkenes

This communication discloses the first examples of aza-Wacker cyclizations of sulfamate esters. Within the realm of related cyclization reactions, this protocol is differential in that it forms six-membered rings in good yield and uses catalytic amounts of palladium(0) rather than palladium(II) salts. These reactions scale well, and their products are demonstrated to be valuable synthetic intermediates.

Oxidative allene amination for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

The prevalence of stereochemically complex amines in natural products, pharmaceuticals and other bioactive compounds, coupled with the challenges inherent in their preparation, has inspired our work to develop new and versatile methodologies for the synthesis of amine-containing stereotriads ('triads'). The key step is a highly chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective transition-metal catalyzed nitrene transfer reaction that transforms one of the cumulated double bonds of an allene precursor into a bicyclic methyleneaziridine intermediate. This account summarizes our strategies to rapidly elaborate such intermediates into stereochemically rich, densely functionalized amine triads, nitrogen heterocycles, aminated carbocycles and other useful synthetic building blocks.

Chemo- and Enantioselective Intramolecular Silver-Catalyzed Aziridinations

Asymmetric nitrene-transfer reactions are a powerful tool for the preparation of enantioenriched amine building blocks. Reported herein are chemo- and enantioselective silver-catalyzed aminations which transform di- and trisubstituted homoallylic carbamates into [4.1.0]-carbamate-tethered aziridines in good yields and with ee values of up to 92 %. The effects of the substrate, silver counteranion, ligand, solvent, and temperature on both the chemoselectivity and ee value were explored. Stereochemical models were proposed to rationalize the observed absolute stereochemistry of the aziridines, which undergo nucleophilic ring opening to yield enantioenriched amines with no erosion in stereochemical integrity.