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Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 369-371Publisher
CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1039/c5qo00008d
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The reduction of perfluoroalkyl N-Boc-pyrrolidyl ketones with diethyl zinc was investigated. As a result, asymmetric Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction of perfluoroalkyl N-Boc-pyrrolidyl ketones proceeded smoothly with the use of 5 equiv. of diethyl zinc as a reducing agent in hexane at room temperature to give (alpha S)-polyfluoroalkylated N-Boc-prolinols in good yields (31-73%) with high diastereomer ratios (up to alpha R/alpha S = 7/93). The absolute configuration at the alpha-position of the major diastereomer is opposite to that obtained by the reduction of N-Boc-pyrrolidyl ketone with NaBH4 in ethanol. Furthermore, we also achieved the tandem perfluorobutylation-MPV reduction of N-Boc-proline ethyl ester to give (alpha S)-perfluorobutylated N-Boc-prolinol as a sole diastereomer in 45% yield.
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