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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 126, Issue 43, Pages 14043-14053Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja046690e
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-30859] Funding Source: Medline
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A versatile route to enantiopure 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles and 3a-substituted pyrrolidinoindolines is described in which diastereoselective dialkylation of enantiopure ditriflate 10 with oxindole enolates is the central step. These reactions are rare examples of alkylations of prostereogenic enolates with chiral sp(3) electrophiles that proceed with high facial selectivity (10-20:1). The scope of this method is explored, and a model to rationalize the sense of stereoselection is advanced. This dialkylation chemistry was used to synthesize (-)-phenserine on a multigram scale in six steps and 43% overall yield from 5-methoxy-1,3-dimethyloxindole (27) and to complete a short formal total synthesis of (-)-physostigmine (2).
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