Cu2O/N,N'-bis(thiophen-2-ylmethyl)oxalamide is established to be an effective catalyst system... more Cu2O/N,N'-bis(thiophen-2-ylmethyl)oxalamide is established to be an effective catalyst system for Goldberg amidation with inferior reactive (hetero)aryl chlorides, which have not been efficiently documented by Cu-catalysis to date. The reaction is well liberalized toward a variety of functionalized (hetero)aryl chlorides and a wide range of aromatic and aliphatic primary amides in good to excellent yields. Furthermore, the arylation of lactams and oxazolidinones is achieved. The present catalytic system also accomplished an intramolecular cross-coupling product.
An easily prepared oxalic diamide is a powerful ligand for the copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl ... more An easily prepared oxalic diamide is a powerful ligand for the copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with nitrogen heterocycles. Only 1–2 mol% each of copper(I) oxide and N,N′-bis[(2-furyl)methyl]oxalamide (BFMO) are needed to form N-arylation products under mild conditions. More than 10 different types of nitrogen heterocycles are compatible with these conditions, thereby giving the corresponding N-arylation products.
Reported herein is the discovery of a diastereoselective indole-dearomative Cope rearrangement. A... more Reported herein is the discovery of a diastereoselective indole-dearomative Cope rearrangement. A suite of minor driving forces (substrate destabilizing effects; product stabilizing effects) are what promote this otherwise unfavorable dearomatization reaction. These include the following that work in concert to overcome the penalty for dearomatization: (i.) steric congestion in the starting material, (ii.) alkylidene malononitrile and stilbene conjugation events in the product, and (iii.) an unexpected intramolecular p–p* stack on the product side of the equilibrium. The key substrates are rapidly assembled from alkylidenemalononitriles and indole-phenylmethanol derivatives resulting in many successful examples (high yields and diastereoselectivity). The products are structurally complex bearing vicinal stereocenters generated by the dearomative Cope rearrangement. They also contain a variety of functional groups for interconversion to complex architectures. On this line, also descr...
An organocatalytic enantioselective aldol reaction using paraformaldehyde as C1-unit has been dev... more An organocatalytic enantioselective aldol reaction using paraformaldehyde as C1-unit has been developed for the synthesis of 2-oxindoles sharing vicinal all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. The methodology is eventually employed in the formal total synthesis of (+)-folicanthine (1b).
The first enantioselective total syntheses of architecturally interesting prenylated pyrroloindol... more The first enantioselective total syntheses of architecturally interesting prenylated pyrroloindole alkaloids, (-)-pseudophrynamines 272A (3d) and 270 (3b), have been achieved starting from enantioenriched 2-oxindoles having all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. A common strategy involving a thio-urea catalyzed aldol reaction is employed for the total synthesis of both spiro(pyrrolidinyl-oxindole) and hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole alkaloids.
Cu2O/N,N'-bis(thiophen-2-ylmethyl)oxalamide is established to be an effective catalyst system... more Cu2O/N,N'-bis(thiophen-2-ylmethyl)oxalamide is established to be an effective catalyst system for Goldberg amidation with inferior reactive (hetero)aryl chlorides, which have not been efficiently documented by Cu-catalysis to date. The reaction is well liberalized toward a variety of functionalized (hetero)aryl chlorides and a wide range of aromatic and aliphatic primary amides in good to excellent yields. Furthermore, the arylation of lactams and oxazolidinones is achieved. The present catalytic system also accomplished an intramolecular cross-coupling product.
An easily prepared oxalic diamide is a powerful ligand for the copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl ... more An easily prepared oxalic diamide is a powerful ligand for the copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with nitrogen heterocycles. Only 1–2 mol% each of copper(I) oxide and N,N′-bis[(2-furyl)methyl]oxalamide (BFMO) are needed to form N-arylation products under mild conditions. More than 10 different types of nitrogen heterocycles are compatible with these conditions, thereby giving the corresponding N-arylation products.
Reported herein is the discovery of a diastereoselective indole-dearomative Cope rearrangement. A... more Reported herein is the discovery of a diastereoselective indole-dearomative Cope rearrangement. A suite of minor driving forces (substrate destabilizing effects; product stabilizing effects) are what promote this otherwise unfavorable dearomatization reaction. These include the following that work in concert to overcome the penalty for dearomatization: (i.) steric congestion in the starting material, (ii.) alkylidene malononitrile and stilbene conjugation events in the product, and (iii.) an unexpected intramolecular p–p* stack on the product side of the equilibrium. The key substrates are rapidly assembled from alkylidenemalononitriles and indole-phenylmethanol derivatives resulting in many successful examples (high yields and diastereoselectivity). The products are structurally complex bearing vicinal stereocenters generated by the dearomative Cope rearrangement. They also contain a variety of functional groups for interconversion to complex architectures. On this line, also descr...
An organocatalytic enantioselective aldol reaction using paraformaldehyde as C1-unit has been dev... more An organocatalytic enantioselective aldol reaction using paraformaldehyde as C1-unit has been developed for the synthesis of 2-oxindoles sharing vicinal all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. The methodology is eventually employed in the formal total synthesis of (+)-folicanthine (1b).
The first enantioselective total syntheses of architecturally interesting prenylated pyrroloindol... more The first enantioselective total syntheses of architecturally interesting prenylated pyrroloindole alkaloids, (-)-pseudophrynamines 272A (3d) and 270 (3b), have been achieved starting from enantioenriched 2-oxindoles having all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. A common strategy involving a thio-urea catalyzed aldol reaction is employed for the total synthesis of both spiro(pyrrolidinyl-oxindole) and hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole alkaloids.
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