beta-Isocupreidine-catalyzed asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reaction of imines

[reaction: see text] beta-Isocupreidine (beta-ICD)-catalyzed asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reactions of aromatic imines with 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropyl acrylate (HFIPA) give (S)-enriched N-protected-alpha-methylene-beta-amino acid esters. In contrast to the corresponding aldehydes, imines show the opposite enantioselectivity. A mechanistic proposal governed by hydrogen bonding is presented.     

Development of bis-thiourea-type organocatalyst for asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reaction

A new chiral bis-thiourea-type organocatalyst 2 developed for the Baylis-Hillman reaction provided a drastic rate enhancement. Allylic alcohols were obtained with up to 90% ee in the case of cyclohexanecarboxaldehyde (4i).     

The Baylis-Hillman reaction: a novel concept for creativity in chemistry

This tutorial review highlights the way in which the Baylis-Hillman reaction has been increasingly attracting the attention of synthetic and medicinal chemists; it not only helps in originating new ideas to create novel methodologies and molecules but also offers intellectual challenges to understand and address the present day needs in the areas of organic and medicinal chemistry.     

Unraveling high precision stereocontrol in a triple cascade organocatalytic reaction

The mechanism and stereoselectivity in an organocatalyzed triple cascade reaction between an aldehyde, electron deficient olefin and an alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde are investigated for the first time using density functional theory. The factors responsible for high levels of observed stereoselectivity (Enders et al., Nature, 2006, 441, 861) towards the generation of cyclohexene carbaldehyde with four contiguous stereocentres are unravelled. The triple cascade reaction, comprising a Michael, Michael and aldol sequence as the key elementary reactions, is studied by identifying the corresponding transition states for the stereoselective C-C bond-formation. In the first Michael addition step between the enamine (derived from the chiral catalyst and propanal) and nitrostyrene, energetically the most preferred mode of addition is found to be between the si-face of (E)-anti-enamine on the si-face of nitrostyrene. The addition of the si-face of the nitroalkane anion on the re-face of the iminium ion (formed between the enal and the catalyst) is the lowest energy pathway for the second Michael addition step. The high level of asymmetric induction is rationalized with the help of relative activation barriers associated with the competitive diastereomeric pathways. Interesting weak interactions, along with the steric effects offered by the bulky alpha-substituent on the pyrrolidine ring, are identified as critical to the stereoselectivity in this triple cascade reaction. The predicted stereoselectivities using computed energetics are found to be in perfect harmony with the experimental stereoselectivities.     

First application of chiral ionic liquids in asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reaction

The first example of the use of chiral ionic liquids as reaction media in the asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reaction was described using N-alkyl-N-methylephedrinium salts. Good yields and significant enantiomeric excesses were obtained.     

The Baylis-Hillman reaction: a strategic tool for the synthesis of higher-carbon sugars

The Baylis-Hillman reaction of acyclic sugar-derived aldehydes is invoked as an attractive synthetic strategy for ready access to higher-carbon sugars.     

A novel ytterbium/perfluoroalkylated-pyridine catalyst for Baylis-Hillman reaction in a fluorous biphasic system

Ytterbium perfluorooctanesulfonate [Yb(OPf)₃] catalyses the highly efficient Baylis-Hillman reaction in the presence of a catalytic amount of a novel perfluoroalkylated-pyridine as a ligand in a fluorous biphasic system (FBS) composed of toluene and perfluorodecalin. The new process can be carried out successfully without the use of a stoichiometric amount of Lewis base. The fluorous phase containing the active catalytic species is easily separated and can be reused several times without significant loss of catalytic activity.     

Electrophilic lactonization as a tool in acyclic stereocontrol. Synthesis of serricornin

Several electrophilic lactonization procedures have been explored as a means of functionalizing olefinic carboxylic acids with relative asymmetric induction, Iodolactonization of δ,? -unsaturated acids under conditions of thermodynamic control exhibits good 1,2- and 1,3-, but not 1,4-induction in the formation of δ-lactones. Mercurilactonization proceeds with good stereocontrol in the formation of both γ- and δ-lactones (1,2-induction), but suffers from the difficulty of elimination during reductive demercuration; phenylselenolactonization with N-(phenylseleno)phthalimide is apparently kinetically controlled, affording high induction with 10, a strongly sterically biased substrate leading to a δ-lactone, but not with 16, which leads to a γ-lactone. In contrast, hydroxymethyllactonization proceeds with good stereocontrol in the case of 26, the ester of 10, but not with the analogous ester of 16. The lactones resulting from cyclization of 10 and 13 were converted in stereospecific fashion into each of the stereoisomers of(±)-serricornin.     

Selenonium ionic liquid as efficient catalyst for the Baylis-Hillman reaction

The new acidic ionic liquid phenyl butyl ethyl selenonium tetrafluoroborate, [pbeSe]BF₄, was successful used as a co-catalyst in the Baylis-Hillman reaction of aldehydes and electron-deficient alkenes. The Baylis-Hillman adducts were obtained in moderated to good yields and in relatively short reaction times under mild conditions.     

Diastereoselective Baylis-Hillman reaction: first use of chiral 2,3-epoxy aldehydes as novel electrophiles

Chiral 2,3-epoxy aldehydes have been effectively utilized for the first time as novel electrophiles in Baylis-Hillman reactions with activated alkenes to result in densely functionalized adducts in good yields (61-80%) and in moderate to good diastereoselectivities (40-72% de).     

Novel application of phosphonium salts as co-catalysts for the Baylis-Hillman reaction

Excellent yields have been obtained when the Baylis-Hillman reaction is conducted in the presence of phosphonium salts.     

Baylis-Hillman反应的研究进展

介绍子一种形成碳碳键的方法－Baylis-Hillman反应及其研究的最新进展。为克服常见Baylis-Hillman反应反应速度慢的缺点,近来人们发展了许多加快反应速度的方法。运用手性底物或手性催化剂等方法来进行不对称Baylis-Hillman反应从而获得手性Baylis-Hillman加成产物。     

Reverse-docking as a computational tool for the study of asymmetric organocatalysis

A novel methodology for 'reverse-docking' a cationic peptide-based organocatalyst to a rigid anionic transition state (TS) model for the conjugate addition of azide to alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl substrates is described. The resulting docking poses serve as simplified TS models for enantioselective catalysis. Molecular mechanics-based scoring and ranking of the docking poses, followed by clustering and structural analysis, reveal a clear energetic preference for docking to the S-enantiomeric azidation TS model, in agreement with experiment. Clear energetic trends emerged from docking the catalyst to both enantiomers of all six azidation TS models of this study. Structural analysis of the most favorable pose suggests a mechanism for enantioselective catalysis that is consistent with principles of molecular recognition, catalysis, and experimental data.     

Sulpholane--A new solvent for the Baylis-Hillman reaction

Sulpholane, a commercially available solvent, is used for the first time as a new solvent for the Baylis-Hillman reaction under ambient conditions; a wide variety of olefins as well as aldehydes participate very efficiently resulting in good to excellent yields of products. Acrylamide also underwent the Baylis-Hillman reaction with 4-nitrobenzaldehyde under these reaction conditions.     

N-alkyl oxazolidines as stereocontrol elements in asymmetric Diels-Alder cycloadditions of 9-substituted anthracene derivatives

Chiral 9-oxazolidinyl anthracene derivatives have been prepared as single diastereoisomers by condensation of 9-anthraldehyde with the appropriate N-alkyl amino alcohol. Asymmetric Diels-Alder cycloadditions of these with N-methyl maleimide proceeds in good yield and in good diastereoselectivity, the sense of which may be controlled by judicious choice of the N-alkyl group.     

Study of fluorocarbonyls for the Baylis-Hillman reaction

A study of the effect of fluorine substitution in Baylis-Hillman reactions of various fluorocarbonyl partners with acrolein, methyl vinyl ketone, ethyl acrylate, and acrylonitrile has been made.     

Fluorinated ketones in the Baylis-Hillman reaction

Hexafluoroacetone, bromopentafluoroacetone, 1,3-dichloro-1,1,3,3-tetrafluoroacetone, and trifluoropyruvic acid methyl ester react with ethyl acrylate, acrylonitrile, acrolein, and methyl vinyl ketone in the presence of 1,4-diazabicyclo[2,2,2]octane with the formation of -alkylation products.A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Heteroorganic Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117813 Moscow. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2763–2767, December, 1992.     

Synthesis of (-)-Delta9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol: stereocontrol via Mo-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation reaction

[reaction: see text] Delta9-THC is synthesized in enantiomericaly pure form, where all of the stereochemistry is derived from the molybdenum-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation reaction of the extremely sterically congested bis-ortho-substituted cinnamyl carbonate in high regio- and enantioselectivity.