22627-00-5Relevant articles and documents
Light-Driven Enantioselective Synthesis of Pyrroline Derivatives by a Radical/Polar Cascade Reaction
Rodríguez, Ricardo I.,Mollari, Leonardo,Alemán, José
supporting information, p. 4555 - 4560 (2021/01/18)
Herein, a light-driven, atom-economical process that provides access to enantiomerically enriched substituted chiral 1-pyrroline derivatives is introduced. The strategy involves the distal functionalization of acyl heterocycles through a hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) process and the use of tailor-made ketimines as reliable electrophilic partners. This transformation is translated into an enantiomerically controlled radical/polar cascade reaction in which water is produced as the sole by-product and stereoselectivity is dictated by coordination to a chiral-at-rhodium catalyst.
Introducing Glycerol as a Sustainable Solvent to Organolithium Chemistry: Ultrafast Chemoselective Addition of Aryllithium Reagents to Nitriles under Air and at Ambient Temperature
Rodríguez-álvarez, María J.,García-álvarez, Joaquín,Uzelac, Marina,Fairley, Michael,O'Hara, Charles T.,Hevia, Eva
, p. 1720 - 1725 (2018/01/27)
Edging closer towards developing air and moisture compatible polar organometallic chemistry, the chemoselective and ultrafast addition of a range of aryllithium reagents to nitriles has been accomplished by using glycerol as a solvent, at ambient temperature in the presence of air, establishing a novel sustainable access to aromatic ketones. Addition reactions occur heterogeneously (“on glycerol conditions”), where the lack of solubility of the nitriles in glycerol and the ability of the latter to form strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds seem key to favouring nucleophilic addition over competitive hydrolysis. Remarkably, PhLi exhibits a greater resistance to hydrolysis working “on glycerol” conditions than “on water”. Introducing glycerol as a new solvent in organolithium chemistry unlocks a myriad of opportunities for developing more sustainable, air and moisture tolerant main-group-metal-mediated organic synthesis.
Synthesis of iron hydrides by selective C-F/C-H bond activation in fluoroarylimines and their applications in catalytic reduction reactions
Wang, Lin,Sun, Hongjian,Li, Xiaoyan
supporting information, p. 2732 - 2743 (2015/06/22)
The reactions of Fe(PMe3)4 with different 2,6-diflurophenylarylimines 1-5 were explored. Fluoroarylimines 1-3, the aryl rings of which are substituted with electron-withdrawing groups, reacted with Fe(PMe3)4 to afford the C-H activation products 6-8. However, if the aryl rings of the fluoroarylimines were substituted with electron-donating groups, the iron hydrides 9 and 10 were obtained from the reactions of the fluoroarylimines with Fe(PMe3)4 through C-F bond activation. In a further study, silanes, especially triethoxysilane, were found to benefit the reactions and improve the yields of the hydridoiron complexes. The three-component reaction of Fe(PMe3)4, a fluoroarylimine, and a silane could also be utilized in reactions involving 2,6-(CH3)2C6H3-C(=NH)-2,6-F2C6H3 (13) and 2,6-F2C6H3-C(=NH)-C6F5 (16) to synthesize iron hydrides (15 and 18). The hydridoiron complexes could be utilized as efficient catalysts in the hydrosilylation of aldehydes and ketones. Furthermore, cinnamaldehydes were selectively reduced to the corresponding cinnamyl alcohols in high yields. The mechanism of the catalytic reduction reaction was studied extensively through operando IR spectroscopy.
