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Dirhodium-Catalyzed Enantioselective B?H Bond Insertion of gem-Diaryl Carbenes: Efficient Access to gem-Diarylmethine Boranes
Huang, Ming-Yao,Li, Xiao-Yu,Su, Yu-Xuan,Yang, Liang-Liang,Zhao, Yu-Tao,Zhu, Shou-Fei
supporting information, p. 24214 - 24219 (2021/10/07)
The scarcity of reliable methods for synthesizing chiral gem-diarylmethine borons limits their applications. Herein, we report a method for highly enantioselective dirhodium-catalyzed B?H bond insertion reactions with diaryl diazomethanes as carbene precursors. These reactions afforded chiral gem-diarylmethine borane compounds in high yield (up to 99 % yield), high activity (turnover numbers up to 14 300), high enantioselectivity (up to 99 % ee) and showed unprecedented broad functional group tolerance. The borane compounds synthesized by this method could be efficiently transformed into diaryl methanol, diaryl methyl amine, and triaryl methane derivatives with good stereospecificity. Mechanistic studies suggested that the borane adduct coordinated to the rhodium catalyst and thus interfered with decomposition of the diazomethane, and that insertion of a rhodium carbene (generated from the diaryl diazomethane) into the B?H bond was most likely the rate-determining step.
Base-free nickel-catalysed decarbonylative Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of acid fluorides
Malapit, Christian A.,Bour, James R.,Brigham, Conor E.,Sanford, Melanie S.
, p. 100 - 104 (2018/11/25)
The Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling of organoboron nucleophiles with aryl halide electrophiles is one of the most widely used carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions in organic and medicinal chemistry1,2. A key challenge associated with these transformations is that they generally require the addition of an exogenous base, the role of which is to enable transmetallation between the organoboron nucleophile and the metal catalyst3. This requirement limits the substrate scope of the reaction because the added base promotes competitive decomposition of many organoboron substrates3–5. As such, considerable research has focused on strategies for mitigating base-mediated side reactions6–12. Previous efforts have primarily focused either on designing strategically masked organoboron reagents (to slow base-mediated decomposition)6–8 or on developing highly active palladium precatalysts (to accelerate cross-coupling relative to base-mediated decomposition pathways)10–12. An attractive alternative approach involves identifying combinations of catalyst and electrophile that enable Suzuki–Miyaura-type reactions to proceed without an exogenous base12–14. Here we use this approach to develop a nickel-catalysed coupling of aryl boronic acids with acid fluorides15–17, which are formed in situ from readily available carboxylic acids18–22. This combination of catalyst and electrophile enables a mechanistic manifold in which a ‘transmetallation-active’ aryl nickel fluoride intermediate is generated directly in the catalytic cycle13,16. As such, this transformation does not require an exogenous base and is applicable to a wide range of base-sensitive boronic acids and biologically active carboxylic acids.
Ni-Catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of N-acylpyrrole-type amides with organoboron reagents
Huang, Pei-Qiang,Chen, Hang
supporting information, p. 12584 - 12587 (2017/11/30)
The catalytic conversion of amides to ketones is highly desirable yet challenging in organic synthesis. We herein report the first Ni/bis-NHC-catalyzed cross-coupling of N-acylpyrrole-type amides with arylboronic esters to obtain diarylketones. This method is facilitated by a new chelating bis-NHC ligand. The reaction tolerates diverse functional groups on both arylamide and arylboronic ester partners including sensitive ester and ketone groups.
