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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 82, Issue 14, Pages 7183-7189Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b00697
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- Stone family
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [CHE-1352663]
- National Institutes of Health [NIGMS R01 GM073072]
- Johnson Research Fellowship
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Since the first report of a facile, room temperature process to access aza-ortho-quinone methides (aoQMs) by Corey in 1999, this chemistry has remained dormant until our report of an enantioselective catalytic example in 2014. We report a theoretical and experimental study of the key to success behind these successful examples to enable broader exploitation of this useful intermediate. We have discovered that transformations involving the aoQM are remarkably facile with barriers <17 kcal/mol. The main difficulty of exploiting aoQM in synthesis is that they are unstable (Delta G > 30 kcal/mol), precluding their formation under mild conditions. The use of Cs2CO3 as base is critical. It provides a thermodynamically and kinetically favorable means to form aoQMs, independent of the salt solubility and base strength. The exothermic formation of salt byproducts provides a driving force (average Delta G = 30.8 kcal/mol) compensating for the majority of the inherent unfavorable thermodynamics of aoQM formation.
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