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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-0482-8
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- National Institutes of Health [NIH R35 GM119812]
- National Science Foundation [NSF CAREER 1654656]
- NSF graduate fellowship
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Asymmetric, radical C-H functionalizations are rare but powerful tools for solving modern synthetic challenges. Specifically, the enantio- and regioselective C-H amination of alcohols to access medicinally valuable chiral beta-amino alcohols remains elusive. To solve this challenge, a radical relay chaperone strategy was designed, wherein an alcohol was transiently converted to an imidate radical that underwent intramolecular H-atom transfer (HAT). This regioselective HAT was also rendered enantioselective by harnessing energy transfer catalysis to mediate selective radical generation and interception by a chiral copper catalyst. The successful development of this multi-catalytic, asymmetric, radical C-H amination enabled broad access to chiral beta-amino alcohols from a variety of alcohols containing alkyl, allyl, benzyl and propargyl C-H bonds. Mechanistic experiments revealed that triplet energy sensitization of a Cu-bound radical precursor facilitates catalyst-mediated HAT stereoselectivity, enabling the synthesis of several important classes of chiral beta-amines by enantioselective, radical C-H amination. The synthesis of chiral amino alcohols from simple alcohol starting materials can be achieved through a catalytic, asymmetric radical relay. Multiple catalysts work in concert to harness a H-atom transfer mechanism to enable enantio- and regioselective C-H amination by transient N-centred radicals.
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