N-Thiocyanatosaccharin (R) was readily prepared from the sweet additive Saccharin in two steps with a 71% overall yield. By applying this new reagent to diverse nucleophiles such as benzothiophenes, indoles, oxindoles, aromatic amines, phenols, β-keto carbonyl compounds, and aromatic ketones, a novel electrophilic thiocyanation reaction was achieved with high yields (up to 99%). The potential recycling of Saccharin, the wide scope of substrates, and the mild reaction conditions made this protocol much more practical.
A new electrophilic thiocyanation reagent, N-thiocyanatophthalimide, was synthesized and applied to the first example of catalytic asymmetric electrophilic α-thiocyanation of various cyclic β-ketoesters by the bifunctional cinchona alkaloid catalysis. Thus, a variety of chiral α-thiocyanato β-ketoesters with a quaternary carbon center have been achieved in excellent yields (up to 99%) and high enantioselectivities (up to 94% ee) in a convenient manner.
The direct electrophilic α-cyanation of β-keto esters and amides has been developed using a hypervalent iodine benziodoxole-derived cyano reagent. The procedure is accomplished within 10 min and without the use of any catalyst in DMF, at room temperature. Thus, the highly functionalized quaternary carbon-centered nitriles were produced in high to excellent yields.
An enantioselective thiocyanation
of oxindoles has been developed
for the first time using a bifunctional cinchona-derived organo-catalyst
and N-thiocyanatophthalimide as the electrophilic
thiocyanation source in the presence of 2-naphthol as the additive.
Various enantioenriched 3,3′-disubstituted oxindoles with SCN-containing
quaternary carbon stereocenters were synthesized under mild conditions
in high yields (up to 99%) and good enantioselectivities (up to 6:94
er).
The first electrophilic asymmetric selenocyanation has been achieved in the presence of Ni(OTf) 2 and (R,R)-DBFOX/Ph using N-selenocyanatosaccharin as the new selenocyanation reagent. Thus, a series of α-selenocyanato-βketo esters were synthesized with high yields (up to 99%) and good ee values (up to 92% ee). The readily preparation of the reagent and high enantioselectivity make this methodology much practical for the synthesis of chiral selenocyanates.
The first example of catalytic asymmetric electrophilic cyanation of 3-substituted oxindoles has been achieved using readily accessible 4-acetylphenyl cyanate as the cyano source. Thus, a series of all-carbon quaternary center 3-aryl-3-cyano oxindoles were prepared using a zinc complex of a chiral pincer ligand as the catalyst in high yields (up to 95%) and excellent enantioselectivities (up to >99% ee) in the presence of 4 Å MS and 2,6-lutidine in THF at 0 °C.
A highly effective asymmetric version of α-cyanation of β-keto esters and amides was developed with a Lewis-acid catalyst. Thus, by using 10 mol % of a tridentate bisoxazoline-zinc(II) complex as the catalyst, a series of chiral nitriles containing a quaternary carbon center were obtained in excellent enantioselectivities (up to 97 % enantiomeric excess) and up to 95 % yield in the presence of 4 Å molar sieve at room temperature. For the first time, mild and active 4-acetylphenyl cyanate was used instead of cyano-hyperiodinate as the cationic cyano source for catalytic asymmetric α-cyanation.
A novel and convenient oxidative radical cyclization of N-substituted N-arylacrylamides for the synthesis of 3-thiocyanated oxindoles has been developed by using AgSCN and K2S2O8 as the radical source. This process allows a consistent and convenient access to SCN-containing heterocycles bearing a broad range of functional groups in good to excellent yields (up to 91%). Moreover, the use of inexpensive and readily available starting materials, operational simplicity, and excellent functional group tolerance makes this protocol practically attractive.
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