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CHEMICAL RECORD
Volume 23, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202200159
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Organocatalyst; aldol reaction; asymmetric synthesis; diarylprolinol
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The aldol reaction is a significant carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction in organic chemistry. The use of trifluoromethyl-substituted diarylprolinol as an organocatalyst has been found to be effective in promoting cross-aldol reactions with excellent selectivities.
The aldol reaction is one of the most important carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions in organic chemistry. Asymmetric direct cross-aldol reaction of two different aldehydes has been regarded as a difficult reaction because of the side reactions such as self-aldol reaction and over reaction. We found that trifluoromethyl-substituted diarylprolinol, alpha,alpha-bis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-2-pyrrolidinemethanol (1), is an effective organocatalyst that promotes several cross-aldol reactions of aldehydes with excellent diastereo- and enantioselectivities. Acetaldehyde can be employed as a suitable nucleophilic aldehyde. Successful electrophilic aldehydes are ethyl glyoxylate, chloroacetaldehyde, dichloroacetaldehyde, chloral, alpha-alkyl-alpha-oxo aldehyde, trifluoroacetaldehyde, glyoxal, alkenyl aldehyde, alkynyl aldehyde, and formaldehyde. Some of the aldehydes are commercially available as a polymer solution, an aqueous solution, or in the hydrated form. They can be used directly in the asymmetric aldol reaction as a commercially available form, which is a synthetic advantage. Given that the obtained aldol products possess several functional groups along with a formyl moiety, they are synthetically useful chiral building blocks.
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