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Wittig Rearrangements of Boron-Based Oxazolidinone Enolates

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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 84, Issue 17, Pages 10892-10900

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01426

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  1. National Institutes of Health [GM131713]

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[2,3]-Sigmatropic rearrangements (Wittig rearrangements) of alpha-alkoxy oxazolidinone enolates are described. Whereas alkali metal enolates fail, owing to facile deacylation, boron enolates generated from di-n-butylboron triflate and triethylamine rearranged in good yields and high selectivities with exceptions noted. IR and NMR spectroscopies show the boron is chelated by the alpha-alkoxy group rather than the more distal oxazolidinone carbonyl in the complex and enolate. The rearrangement product contains a boron alkoxide that remains unchelated by either carbonyl. Optimization was guided by density functional theory computations, suggesting that valine-derived oxazolidinones would be superior to the phenylalanine-derived analogues.

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