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Stereoretentive cross-coupling of chiral amino acid chlorides and hydrocarbons through mechanistically controlled Ni/Ir photoredox catalysis

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32851-7

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  1. KAIST startup [G04190007]
  2. Samsung Science and Technology Foundation [SSTF-BA1601-12]
  3. National Research Foundation of Korea - Korean Government [NRF-2019R1A2C2086875, NRF-2021R1A5A6002803]

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In this study, an efficient method for the stereoretentive direct cross-coupling of chiral amino acid chlorides and unactivated C(sp(3))-H hydrocarbons was achieved via photoredox catalysis. The strategic generation of an N-acyllutidinium intermediate facilitated the synthesis of chiral amino ketones with retention of stereochemistry.
Chiral alpha-amino ketones are privileged motifs in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. Here, the authors develop an efficient method to synthesize these structures via stereoretentive direct cross-coupling of amino acid chlorides with simple aliphatic substrates. The direct modification of naturally occurring chiral amino acids to their amino ketone analogs is a significant synthetic challenge. Here, an efficient and robust cross-coupling reaction between chiral amino acid chlorides and unactivated C(sp(3))-H hydrocarbons is achieved by a mechanistically designed Ni/Ir photoredox catalysis. This reaction, which proceeds under mild conditions, enables modular access to a wide variety of chiral amino ketones that retain the stereochemistry of the starting amino acids. In-depth mechanistic analysis reveals that the strategic generation of an N-acyllutidinium intermediate is critical for the success of this reaction. The barrierless reduction of the N-acyllutidinium intermediate facilitates the delivery of chiral amino ketones with retention of stereochemistry. This pathway avoids the formation of a detrimental nickel intermediate, which could be responsible for undesirable decarbonylation and transmetalation reactions that limit the utility of previously reported methods.

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