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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 75, Issue 23, Pages 8147-8154Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo101798p
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20902036]
- National Science & Technology Major Project Key New Drug Creation and Manufacturing Program of China [2009ZX09501-010]
- Changchun Discovery Sciences, Ltd.
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To understand the detailed mechanism of a recently reported tandem iminium cyclization and Smiles rearrangement, the reaction processes of a chiral substrate were investigated by monitoring its stereochemical courses. Under the tandem reaction conditions, chiral aldehyde 1 derived from L-prolinol led to two surprising results. First, the iminium cyclization gave a diastereomeric mixture with the cis-configured product as the predominant one. Second, Smiles rearrangement of both cis- and trans-2 led to the same product 3a directly derived from the trans isomer. The former was rationalized by the postulation of a Cram's chelate transition state leading to the cis product as kinetically favored. The latter was due to the equilibration between the trans/cis pair involving a carbocation intermediate and the steric hindrance, which prevented the cis isomer from undergoing the intramolecular nucleophilic substitution. This hypothesis was further supported by the results of a competition experiment in which the addition of 1 equiv of p-methoxyaniline in the rearrangement step led to a significant amount of anilinyl-exchanged rearrangement product.
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