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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04885-3
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- NSFC [21072044, 21672052]
- Innovation Scientists and Technicians Troop Construction Projects of Henan Province
- Henan University
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Classic nucleophilic substitution reactions (S(N)1 and S(N)2) are not generally amenable to the enantioselective variants that use simple and racemic alkyl halide electrophiles. The merging of transition metal catalysis and radical chemistry with organometallic nucleophiles is a versatile method for addressing this limitation. Here, we report that visible light-driven catalytic asymmetric photoredox radical coupling can act as a complementary and generic strategy for the enantioconvergent formal substitution of alkyl haldies with readily available and bench-stable organic molecules. Single-electron reductive debrominations of racemic alpha-bromoketones generate achiral alkyl radicals that can participate in asymmetric C-sp3-C-sp3 bonds forming cross-coupling reactions with a-amino radicals derived from N-aryl amino acids. A wide range of valuable enantiomerically pure beta(2) - and beta(2,2) -amino ketones were obtained in satisfactory yields with good-to-excellent enantioselectivities by using chiral phosphoric acid catalysts to control the stereochemistry and chemoselectivity. Fluoro-hetero-quaternary and full-carbon quaternary stereocenters that are challenging to prepare were successfully constructed.
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