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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 143, Issue 9, Pages 3519-3535Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12911
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- NSFC [21525207, 21672096, 21772147, 21933003, 220711186]
- Huibei Province NSF [2020CFA036]
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis [2020B121201002]
- Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Committee [JCYJ20170817104736009]
- Shenzhen Peacock Program [KQTD20150717103157174]
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The study successfully employed beta-substituted alkenyl heteroarenes as dipolarophiles in the Cu(I)-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides, resulting in the synthesis of multistereogenic heterocycles with high enantioselectivity and good yields.
The catalytic asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of azomethine ylides with various electron-deficient alkenes provide the most straightforward protocol for the preparation of enantioenriched pyrrolidines in organic synthesis. However, the employment of conjugated alkenyl heteroarenes as dipolarophiles in such protocols to afford a class of particularly important molecules in medicinal chemistry is still a great challenge. Herein, we report that various beta-substituted alkenyl heteroarenes, challenging internal alkene substrates without a strong electron-withdrawing substituent, were successfully employed as dipolarophiles for the first time in the Cu(I)-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides. This reaction furnishes a large array of multistereogenic heterocycles incorporating both the biologically important pyrrolidine and heteroarene skeletons in good yields with exclusive diastereoselectivity and excellent enantioselectivity. Our extensive density functional theory (DFT) calculations proposed a working model to explain the origin of the stereochemical outcome and elucidated uncommon dual activation/coordination of both the dipole and dipolarophile substrates by the metal, in which a sterically bulky, rigid, and monodentate phosphoramidite ligand with triple-homoaxial chirality plays a pivotal role in providing an effective chiral pocket around the metal center, resulting in high enantioselectivity. The additional coordination of the heteroatom in the dipolarophile substrate to Cu is also critical for the exclusive diastereoselectivity and enhanced reactivity. Our calculations also predicted the reverse and high enantioinduction for the corresponding substrates with monocyclic heteroarenes as well as regiospecific cycloaddition to the less reactive internal C = C bond of one related dipolarophile diene substrate. Such unique steric effect-directed enantioswitching and coordination-directed regioselectivity were verified experimentally.
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