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Andrews KG, Borsley S. Kinetic Analysis of the Redox-Neutral Catalytic Mitsunobu Reaction: Dehydration, Kinetic Barriers, and Hopping between Potential Energy Surfaces. J Am Chem Soc 2025; 147:18240-18248. [PMID: 40356305 PMCID: PMC12123607 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2025] [Revised: 04/30/2025] [Accepted: 05/02/2025] [Indexed: 05/15/2025]
Abstract
Denton's redox-neutral catalytic Mitsunobu reaction is remarkable in that it translates a reaction traditionally driven by the consumption of sacrificial chemical reagents to an additive-free catalytic manifold. Rational attempts to improve the system have been met with only marginal improvements, and a lack of consensus concerning the rate-determining step continues to limit effective reaction development. Here, we analyze the reaction mechanism focusing on a critical, largely overlooked element: the removal of water using a Dean-Stark apparatus. Experimental analysis of the water removal process, coupled with extensive kinetic simulations, demonstrates that the overall rate of the reaction is intimately tied to the rate of water removal. This process can be viewed as a transition between potential energy surfaces and, consequently, subsequent steps of the reaction can progress spontaneously in the absence of water, allowing an explanation of how Le Chatelier's principle, a thermodynamic effect, can have a profound kinetic influence over the rate of the reaction. We identify three bottlenecks in the reaction that inform catalyst design. Additionally, we (a) clarify the ongoing discussion regarding the rate-determining step, (b) provide clear advice concerning future reaction design taking into account the role of water and, (c) discuss the redox-neutral catalytic Mitsunobu reaction in the context of formally endergonic esterification reactions, noting parallels with ratchet mechanisms. Finally, we highlight general principles of catalyst/reaction design that emerge from our analysis and implement our findings to demonstrate a 50% rate acceleration resulting from improved water removal, a substantially greater reaction enhancement than previously obtained from computationally guided catalyst structural changes.
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- Keith G. Andrews
- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Lower Mount Joy, South Road, DurhamDH1 3LE, U.K.
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Lower Mount Joy, South Road, DurhamDH1 3LE, U.K.
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Zwick P, Troncossi A, Borsley S, Vitorica-Yrezabal IJ, Leigh DA. Stepwise Operation of a Molecular Rotary Motor Driven by an Appel Reaction. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:4467-4472. [PMID: 38319727 PMCID: PMC10885133 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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To date, only a small number of chemistries and chemical fueling strategies have been successfully used to operate artificial molecular motors. Here, we report the 360° directionally biased rotation of phenyl groups about a C-C bond, driven by a stepwise Appel reaction sequence. The motor molecule consists of a biaryl-embedded phosphine oxide and phenol, in which full rotation around the biaryl bond is blocked by the P-O oxygen atom on the rotor being too bulky to pass the oxygen atom on the stator. Treatment with SOCl2 forms a cyclic oxyphosphonium salt (removing the oxygen atom of the phosphine oxide), temporarily linking the rotor with the stator. Conformational exchange via ring flipping then allows the rotor and stator to twist back and forth past the previous limit of rotation. Subsequently, the ring opening of the tethered intermediate with a chiral alcohol occurs preferentially through a nucleophilic attack on one face. Thus, the original phosphine oxide is reformed with net directional rotation about the biaryl bond over the course of the two-step reaction sequence. Each repetition of SOCl2-chiral alcohol additions generates another directionally biased rotation. Using the same reaction sequence on a derivative of the motor molecule that forms atropisomers rather than fully rotating 360° results in enantioenrichment, suggesting that, on average, the motor molecule rotates in the "wrong" direction once every three fueling cycles. The interconversion of phosphine oxides and cyclic oxyphosphonium groups to form temporary tethers that enable a rotational barrier to be overcome directionally adds to the strategies available for generating chemically fueled kinetic asymmetry in molecular systems.
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- Patrick Zwick
- Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Ren B, Xu J, Liu C. Rapid and Practical Synthesis of gem-Dibromoalkanes from Aldehydes by Tribromide Reagent. Chem Asian J 2024:e202301087. [PMID: 38183358 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202301087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
Abstract
gem-Dibromoalkanes are important synthetic building block in organic chemistry, but their preparation is still troublesome. Herein, we have developed a simple and practical protocol for the synthesis of gem-dibromoalkanes from aldehydes using tetrabutylammonium tribromide and triphenyl phosphite. A variety of alkyl and aromatic aldehydes can be transformed into the corresponding products within 10 minutes. This protocol is also applicable to alcohols, and the configuration of chiral alcohol is inverted during the process with excellent enantiopurity.
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- Bowen Ren
- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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Maret C, David N, Pierrot D, Léonel E, Levacher V, Brière JF, Oudeyer S. Synthesis of α-Chloroarylacetic Acid via Electrochemical Carboxylation of α,α-Dichloroarylmethane Derivatives. Molecules 2023; 28:6704. [PMID: 37764480 PMCID: PMC10537669 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28186704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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The electrocarboxylation of α,α-dichloroarylmethane derivatives in the presence of CO2 was achieved, providing several α-chloroarylacetic acid derivatives with modest yields but high selectivity (chlorinated vs. non-chlorinated or dicarboxylic acid products). The obtained products were then involved in several chemical transformations, underlining their potential as versatile intermediates in synthetic chemistry. A mechanism was also proposed based upon a control experiment and cyclic voltammetry (CV) study.
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- Corentin Maret
- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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- Université Paris-Est Créteil, ICMPE (UMR 7182), CNRS, UPEC, F-94320 Thiais, France;
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, COBRA UMR 6014, INC3M FR 3038, F-76000 Rouen, France; (C.M.); (N.D.); (D.P.); (V.L.); (J.-F.B.)
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Lipshultz JM, Li G, Radosevich AT. Main Group Redox Catalysis of Organopnictogens: Vertical Periodic Trends and Emerging Opportunities in Group 15. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:1699-1721. [PMID: 33464903 PMCID: PMC7934640 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c12816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A growing number of organopnictogen redox catalytic methods have emerged-especially within the past 10 years-that leverage the plentiful reversible two-electron redox chemistry within Group 15. The goal of this Perspective is to provide readers the context to understand the dramatic developments in organopnictogen catalysis over the past decade with an eye toward future development. An exposition of the fundamental differences in the atomic structure and bonding of the pnictogens, and thus the molecular electronic structure of organopnictogen compounds, is presented to establish the backdrop against which organopnictogen redox reactivity-and ultimately catalysis-is framed. A deep appreciation of these underlying periodic principles informs an understanding of the differing modes of organopnictogen redox catalysis and evokes the key challenges to the field moving forward. We close by addressing forward-looking directions likely to animate this area in the years to come. What new catalytic manifolds can be developed through creative catalyst and reaction design that take advantage of the intrinsic redox reactivity of the pnictogens to drive new discoveries in catalysis?
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- Jeffrey M Lipshultz
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Zoller B, Stach T, Huy PH. Lewis Base Catalysis Enables the Activation of Alcohols by means of Chloroformates as Phosgene Substitutes. ChemCatChem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202001175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ben Zoller
- Saarland University Organic Chemistry P. O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
- Current address Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) University Campus E8.1, room 2.29 66123 Saarbrücken Germany
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- Saarland University Organic Chemistry P. O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
- Current address: Endotherm GmbH Science Park 2 66123 Saarbrücken Germany
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- Saarland University Organic Chemistry P. O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
- Rostock University Institute for Chemistry Albert-Einstein-Str. 3A 18059 Rostock Germany
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Li G, Nykaza TV, Cooper JC, Ramirez A, Luzung MR, Radosevich AT. An Improved P III/P V═O-Catalyzed Reductive C-N Coupling of Nitroaromatics and Boronic Acids by Mechanistic Differentiation of Rate- and Product-Determining Steps. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:6786-6799. [PMID: 32178514 PMCID: PMC7146866 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Experimental,
spectroscopic, and computational studies are reported
that provide an evidence-based mechanistic description of an intermolecular
reductive C–N coupling of nitroarenes and arylboronic acids
catalyzed by a redox-active main-group catalyst (1,2,2,3,4,4-hexamethylphosphetane P-oxide, i.e., 1·[O]). The central observations
include the following: (1) catalytic reduction of 1·[O]
to PIII phosphetane 1 is kinetically fast
under conditions of catalysis; (2) phosphetane 1 represents
the catalytic resting state as observed by 31P NMR spectroscopy;
(3) there are no long-lived nitroarene partial-reduction intermediates
observable by 15N NMR spectroscopy; (4) the reaction is
sensitive to solvent dielectric, performing best in moderately polar
solvents (viz. cyclopentylmethyl ether); and (5) the reaction is largely
insensitive with respect to common hydrosilane reductants. On the
basis of the foregoing studies, new modified catalytic conditions
are described that expand the reaction scope and provide for mild
temperatures (T ≥ 60 °C), low catalyst
loadings (≥2 mol%), and innocuous terminal reductants (polymethylhydrosiloxane).
DFT calculations define a two-stage deoxygenation sequence for the
reductive C–N coupling. The initial deoxygenation involves
a rate-determining step that consists of a (3+1) cheletropic addition
between the nitroarene substrate and phosphetane 1; energy
decomposition techniques highlight the biphilic character of the phosphetane
in this step. Although kinetically invisible, the second deoxygenation
stage is implicated as the critical C–N product-forming event,
in which a postulated oxazaphosphirane intermediate is diverted from
arylnitrene dissociation toward heterolytic ring opening with the
arylboronic acid; the resulting dipolar intermediate evolves by antiperiplanar
1,2-migration of the organoboron residue to nitrogen, resulting in
displacement of 1·[O] and formation of the target
C–N coupling product upon in situ hydrolysis.
The method thus described constitutes a mechanistically well-defined
and operationally robust main-group complement to the current workhorse
transition-metal-based methods for catalytic intermolecular C–N
coupling.
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- Gen Li
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, One Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, One Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Huy PH. Lewis Base Catalysis Promoted Nucleophilic Substitutions – Recent Advances and Future Directions. European J Org Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201901495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Peter H. Huy
- Institute for Organic Chemistry Saarland University P. O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbruecken Germany
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Pongener I, Nikitin K, McGarrigle EM. Synthesis of glycosyl chlorides using catalytic Appel conditions. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:7531-7535. [PMID: 31369028 DOI: 10.1039/c9ob01544b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
The stereoselective synthesis of glycosyl chlorides using catalytic Appel conditions is described. Good yields of α-glycosyl chlorides were obtained using a range of glycosyl hemiacetals, oxalyl chloride and 5 mol% Ph3PO. For 2-deoxysugars treatment of the corresponding hemiacetals with oxalyl chloride without phosphine oxide catalyst also gave good yields of glycosyl chloride. The method is operationaly simple and the 5 mol% phosphine oxide by-product can be removed easily. Alternatively a one-pot, multi-catalyst glycosylation can be carried out to transform the glycosyl hemiacetal directly to a glycoside.
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- Imlirenla Pongener
- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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- Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Lecomte M, Lipshultz JM, Kim-Lee SH, Li G, Radosevich AT. Driving Recursive Dehydration by P III/P V Catalysis: Annulation of Amines and Carboxylic Acids by Sequential C-N and C-C Bond Formation. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:12507-12512. [PMID: 31345031 PMCID: PMC6693942 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A method
for the annulation of amines and carboxylic acids to form
pharmaceutically relevant azaheterocycles via organophosphorus PIII/PV redox catalysis is reported. The method employs
a phosphetane catalyst together with a mild bromenium oxidant and
terminal hydrosilane reductant to drive successive C–N and
C–C bond-forming dehydration events via the serial action of
a catalytic bromophosphonium intermediate. These results demonstrate
the capacity of PIII/PV redox catalysis to enable
iterative redox-neutral transformations in complement to the common
reductive driving force of the PIII/PV couple.
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Affiliation(s)
- Morgan Lecomte
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 02139 Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 02139 Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 02139 Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States.,Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid , Spain
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 02139 Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 02139 Cambridge , Massachusetts , United States
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Mohammadkhani L, Heravi MM. Oxalyl Chloride: A Versatile Reagent in Organic Transformations. ChemistrySelect 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201900120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Leyla Mohammadkhani
- Department of Chemistry, School of SciencesAlzahra University Vanak, Tehran Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, School of SciencesAlzahra University Vanak, Tehran Iran
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Nykaza TV, Cooper JC, Li G, Mahieu N, Ramirez A, Luzung MR, Radosevich AT. Intermolecular Reductive C-N Cross Coupling of Nitroarenes and Boronic Acids by P III/P V═O Catalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:15200-15205. [PMID: 30372615 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A main group-catalyzed method for the synthesis of aryl- and heteroarylamines by intermolecular C-N coupling is reported. The method employs a small-ring organophosphorus-based catalyst (1,2,2,3,4,4-hexamethylphosphetane) and a terminal hydrosilane reductant (phenylsilane) to drive reductive intermolecular coupling of nitro(hetero)arenes with boronic acids. Applications to the construction of both Csp2-N (from arylboronic acids) and Csp3-N bonds (from alkylboronic acids) are demonstrated; the reaction is stereospecific with respect to Csp3-N bond formation. The method constitutes a new route from readily available building blocks to valuable nitrogen-containing products with complementarity in both scope and chemoselectivity to existing catalytic C-N coupling methods.
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- Trevor V Nykaza
- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development , Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , One Squibb Drive , New Brunswick , New Jersey 08903 , United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development , Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , One Squibb Drive , New Brunswick , New Jersey 08903 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , United States
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The hallmark of nucleophilic phosphine catalysis is the initial nucleophilic addition of a phosphine to an electrophilic starting material, producing a reactive zwitterionic intermediate, generally under mild conditions. In this Review, we classify nucleophilic phosphine catalysis reactions in terms of their electrophilic components. In the majority of cases, these electrophiles possess carbon-carbon multiple bonds: alkenes (section 2), allenes (section 3), alkynes (section 4), and Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) alcohol derivatives (MBHADs; section 5). Within each of these sections, the reactions are compiled based on the nature of the second starting material-nucleophiles, dinucleophiles, electrophiles, and electrophile-nucleophiles. Nucleophilic phosphine catalysis reactions that occur via the initial addition to starting materials that do not possess carbon-carbon multiple bonds are collated in section 6. Although not catalytic in the phosphine, the formation of ylides through the nucleophilic addition of phosphines to carbon-carbon multiple bond-containing compounds is intimately related to the catalysis and is discussed in section 7. Finally, section 8 compiles miscellaneous topics, including annulations of the Hüisgen zwitterion, phosphine-mediated reductions, iminophosphorane organocatalysis, and catalytic variants of classical phosphine oxide-generating reactions.
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- Hongchao Guo
- Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA
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Brześkiewicz J, Loska R, Mąkosza M. α-Chlorobenzylation of Nitroarenes via Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution with Benzylidene Dichloride: Umpolung of the Friedel-Crafts Reaction. J Org Chem 2018; 83:8499-8508. [PMID: 29905070 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Readily available α,α-dichlorotoluenes enter a vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) reaction with electron-deficient arenes to give α-chlorobenzylated nitrobenzenes, as well as six- and five-membered heterocycles. Oxidation of the initially formed α-chlorobenzylic carbanions instead of protonation results in formation of diaryl ketones, providing a means for overall nucleophilic C-H benzoylation of electron-deficient aromatic rings. Alternatively, benzoylated nitroarenes can be obtained via the reaction of isolated α-chlorodiarylmethanes with sodium azide.
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- Jakub Brześkiewicz
- Institute of Organic Chemistry , Polish Academy of Sciences , Kasprzaka 44/52 , 01-224 Warsaw , Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry , Polish Academy of Sciences , Kasprzaka 44/52 , 01-224 Warsaw , Poland
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry , Polish Academy of Sciences , Kasprzaka 44/52 , 01-224 Warsaw , Poland
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Schoene J, Bel Abed H, Schmieder P, Christmann M, Nazaré M. A General One-Pot Synthesis of 2H-Indazoles Using an Organophosphorus-Silane System. Chemistry 2018; 24:9090-9100. [PMID: 29644761 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201800763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A simple and direct approach for the regioselective construction of the privileged 2H-indazole scaffold is described. The developed one-pot strategy involves phospholene-mediated N-N bond formation to access 2H-indazoles. The amount of organophosphorus reagent was minimized by recycling the phospholene oxide with organosilane reductants. Starting from functionalized 2-nitrobenzaldehydes and primary amines, a mild reductive cyclization, involving the use of commercially available phospholene oxide and silanes, delivered a wide variety of substituted 2H-indazoles in good to excellent yields.
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- Jens Schoene
- Departments of Chemical Biology and Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Campus Berlin-Buch, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Chemical Biology and Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Campus Berlin-Buch, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Chemical Biology and Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Campus Berlin-Buch, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Organische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse. 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Chemical Biology and Structural Biology, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Campus Berlin-Buch, Robert-Roessle-Str. 10, 13125, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str. 2, 10178 Kapelle-Ufer 2, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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Zhang K, Cai L, Yang Z, Houk KN, Kwon O. Bridged [2.2.1] bicyclic phosphine oxide facilitates catalytic γ-umpolung addition-Wittig olefination. Chem Sci 2018; 9:1867-1872. [PMID: 29732112 PMCID: PMC5909331 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04381c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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A novel bridged [2.2.1] bicyclic phosphine oxide, devised to circumvent the waste generation and burdens of purification that are typical of reactions driven by the generation of phosphine oxides, has been prepared in three steps from commercially available cyclopent-3-ene-1-carboxylic acid. The performance of this novel phosphine oxide was superior to those of current best-in-class counterparts, as verified experimentally through kinetic analysis of its silane-mediated reduction. It has been applied successfully in halide-/base-free catalytic γ-umpolung addition-Wittig olefinations of allenoates and 2-amidobenzaldehydes to produce 1,2-dihydroquinolines with good efficiency. One of the 1,2-dihydroquinoline products was converted to known antitubercular furanoquinolines.
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- Kui Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California , Los Angeles , California 90095-1569 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California , Los Angeles , California 90095-1569 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California , Los Angeles , California 90095-1569 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California , Los Angeles , California 90095-1569 , USA .
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of California , Los Angeles , California 90095-1569 , USA .
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Nykaza TV, Ramirez A, Harrison TS, Luzung MR, Radosevich AT. Biphilic Organophosphorus-Catalyzed Intramolecular C sp2-H Amination: Evidence for a Nitrenoid in Catalytic Cadogan Cyclizations. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:3103-3113. [PMID: 29389114 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A small-ring phosphacycloalkane (1,2,2,3,4,4-hexamethylphosphetane, 3) catalyzes intramolecular C-N bond forming heterocyclization of o-nitrobiaryl and -styrenyl derivatives in the presence of a hydrosilane terminal reductant. The method provides scalable access to diverse carbazole and indole compounds under operationally trivial homogeneous organocatalytic conditions, as demonstrated by 17 examples conducted on 1 g scale. In situ NMR reaction monitoring studies support a mechanism involving catalytic PIII/PV═O cycling, where tricoordinate phosphorus compound 3 represents the catalytic resting state. For the catalytic conversion of o-nitrobiphenyl to carbazole, the kinetic reaction order was determined for phosphetane catalyst 3 (first order), substrate (first order), and phenylsilane (zeroth order). For differentially 5-substituted 2-nitrobiphenyls, the transformation is accelerated by electron-withdrawing substituents (Hammett factor ρ = +1.5), consistent with the accrual of negative charge on the nitro substrate in the rate-determining step. DFT modeling of the turnover-limiting deoxygenation event implicates a rate-determining (3 + 1) cheletropic addition between the phosphetane catalyst 3 and 2-nitrobiphenyl substrate to form an unobserved pentacoordinate spiro-bicyclic dioxazaphosphetane, which decomposes via (2 + 2) cycloreversion giving 1 equiv of phosphetane P-oxide 3·[O] and 2-nitrosobiphenyl. Experimental and computational investigations into the C-N bond forming event suggest the involvement of an oxazaphosphirane (2 + 1) adduct between 3 and 2-nitrosobiphenyl, which evolves through loss of phosphetane P-oxide 3·[O] to give the observed carbazole product via C-H insertion in a nitrene-like fashion.
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- Trevor V Nykaza
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , One Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Chemical and Synthetic Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company , One Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Nykaza TV, Harrison TS, Ghosh A, Putnik RA, Radosevich AT. A Biphilic Phosphetane Catalyzes N-N Bond-Forming Cadogan Heterocyclization via P III/P V═O Redox Cycling. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:6839-6842. [PMID: 28489354 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b03260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A small-ring phosphacycle, 1,2,2,3,4,4-hexamethylphosphetane, is found to catalyze deoxygenative N-N bond-forming Cadogan heterocyclization of o-nitrobenzaldimines, o-nitroazobenzenes, and related substrates in the presence of hydrosilane terminal reductant. The reaction provides a chemoselective catalytic synthesis of 2H-indazoles, 2H-benzotriazoles, and related fused heterocyclic systems with good functional group compatibility. On the basis of both stoichiometric and catalytic mechanistic experiments, the reaction is proposed to proceed via catalytic PIII/PV═O cycling, where DFT modeling suggests a turnover-limiting (3+1) cheletropic addition between the phosphetane catalyst and nitroarene substrate. Strain/distortion analysis of the (3+1) transition structure highlights the controlling role of frontier orbital effects underpinning the catalytic performance of the phosphetane.
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- Trevor V Nykaza
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Zhao Z, Kulkarni KG, Murphy GK. Synthesis of Aryldihalomethanes by Denitrogenative Dihalogenation of Benzaldehyde Hydrazones. Adv Synth Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201700393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Zhensheng Zhao
- Department of Chemistry; University of Waterloo; 200 University Ave W Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Waterloo; 200 University Ave W Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Waterloo; 200 University Ave W Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1
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Hamstra DFJ, Lenstra DC, Koenders TJ, Rutjes FPJT, Mecinović J. Poly(methylhydrosiloxane) as a green reducing agent in organophosphorus-catalysed amide bond formation. Org Biomol Chem 2017; 15:6426-6432. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ob01510k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In situ reduction of phosphine oxide by poly(methylhydrosiloxane) leads to efficient amidation reaction between carboxylic acids and amines.
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- Daan F. J. Hamstra
- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials
- Radboud University
- 6525 AJ Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
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Phosphine functionalized polyphosphazenes: soluble and re-usable polymeric reagents for highly efficient halogenations under Appel conditions. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-016-1791-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Wang L, Xie YB, Huang NY, Yan JY, Hu WM, Liu MG, Ding MW. Catalytic aza-Wittig Reaction of Acid Anhydride for the Synthesis of 4H-Benzo[d][1,3]oxazin-4-ones and 4-Benzylidene-2-aryloxazol-5(4H)-ones. ACS Catal 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Long Wang
- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory
of Natural Products Research and Development, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory
of Natural Products Research and Development, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory
of Natural Products Research and Development, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
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- College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei 443002, China
- Key Laboratory of Pesticide & Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
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Bel Abed H, Mammoliti O, Bande O, Van Lommen G, Herdewijn P. Organophosphorus-catalyzed diaza-Wittig reaction: application to the synthesis of pyridazines. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 12:7159-66. [PMID: 25101802 DOI: 10.1039/c4ob01201a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The elaboration of the first organophosphorus-catalyzed diaza-Wittig reaction is reported. This catalytic reaction is applied to the synthesis of substituted pyridazine and phthalazine derivatives bearing electron-withdrawing groups with good to excellent yields from substrates containing a diazo functionality as the starting material and a phospholene oxide as the catalyst.
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- Hassen Bel Abed
- Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Coyle EE, Doonan BJ, Holohan AJ, Walsh KA, Lavigne F, Krenske EH, O'Brien CJ. Catalytic wittig reactions of semi- and nonstabilized ylides enabled by ylide tuning. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014; 53:12907-11. [PMID: 25250907 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201406103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The first examples of catalytic Wittig reactions with semistabilized and nonstabilized ylides are reported. These reactions were enabled by utilization of a masked base, sodium tert-butyl carbonate, and/or ylide tuning. The acidity of the ylide-forming proton was tuned by varying the electron density at the phosphorus center in the precatalyst, thus facilitating the use of relatively mild bases. Steric modification of the precatalyst structure resulted in significant enhancement of E selectivity up to >95:5, E/Z.
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- Emma E Coyle
- National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 (Ireland)
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Coyle EE, Doonan BJ, Holohan AJ, Walsh KA, Lavigne F, Krenske EH, O'Brien CJ. Catalytic Wittig Reactions of Semi- and Nonstabilized Ylides Enabled by Ylide Tuning. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201406103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Xia X, Toy PH. Rasta resin-triphenylphosphine oxides and their use as recyclable heterogeneous reagent precursors in halogenation reactions. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:1397-405. [PMID: 24991294 PMCID: PMC4077539 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Accepted: 05/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Heterogeneous polymer-supported triphenylphosphine oxides based on the rasta resin architecture have been synthesized, and applied as reagent precursors in a wide range of halogenation reactions. The rasta resin–triphenylphosphine oxides were reacted with either oxalyl chloride or oxalyl bromide to form the corresponding halophosphonium salts, and these in turn were reacted with alcohols, aldehydes, aziridines and epoxides to form halogenated products in high yields after simple purification. The polymer-supported triphenylphosphine oxides formed as a byproduct during these reactions could be recovered and reused numerous times with no appreciable decrease in reactivity.
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- Xuanshu Xia
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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Tang X, Chapman C, Whiting M, Denton R. Development of a redox-free Mitsunobu reaction exploiting phosphine oxides as precursors to dioxyphosphoranes. Chem Commun (Camb) 2014; 50:7340-3. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02171a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The development of a redox-free protocol for Mitsunobu inversion is described.
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- Xiaoping Tang
- School of Chemistry
- University Park
- University of Nottingham
- Nottingham, UK
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- School of Chemistry
- University Park
- University of Nottingham
- Nottingham, UK
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- School of Chemistry
- University Park
- University of Nottingham
- Nottingham, UK
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An J, Denton RM, Lambert TH, Nacsa ED. The development of catalytic nucleophilic substitution reactions: challenges, progress and future directions. Org Biomol Chem 2014; 12:2993-3003. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ob00032c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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