Interfacial ring-opening polymerizations (iROP) of α-amino-acid derived N-thiocarboxyanhydrides (NTAs) in hexanes or heptane suspension using soluble primary amine initiators have been demonstrated to produce polypeptides with controlled molecular weight and low-tomoderate molecular weight distribution under mild conditions. The NTA monomers were shown to have significantly enhanced moisture and thermal stability relative to Ncarboxyanhydrides (NCAs), resulting in long shelf life and allowing the polymerization to occur quantitatively in open air.
Herein we report studies towards a small molecule catalytic approach to access atropisomeric diaryl ethers that proceeds via a C(sp2)-H alkylation using nitroalkanes as the alkyl source. A quaternary ammonium salt derived from quinine containing a sterically hindered urea at the C-9 position was found to effect atroposelective C(sp2)-H alkylation with moderate to good enantioselectivities across several naphthoquinone-containing diaryl ethers. Products can then be isolated in greater than 95:5 er after one round of trituration. For several substrates that were evaluated we observed a ‘nitroethylated’ product in similar yields and selectivities.
Herein we report the catalytic atroposelective syntheses of pharmaceutically relevant 3-arylquinolines via the nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) of thiophenols into 3-aryl-2-fluoroquinolines mediated by catalytic amounts of Cinchona alkaloid-derived ureas. These...
We report a highly efficient ortho-selective
electrophilic chlorination
of phenols utilizing a Lewis basic selenoether catalyst. The selenoether
catalyst resulted in comparable selectivities to our previously reported
bis-thiourea ortho-selective catalyst, with a catalyst loading as
low as 1%. The new catalytic system also allowed us to extend this
chemistry to obtain excellent ortho-selectivities for unprotected
anilines. The selectivities of this reaction are up to >20:1 ortho/para,
while the innate selectivities for phenols and anilines are approximately
1:4 ortho/para. A series of preliminary studies revealed that the
substrates require a hydrogen-bonding moiety for selectivity.
A new method to functionalize enamides via an intermediacy of unsymmetrical 2-amidoallyl cations is reported. Generated under mild Brønsted acid catalysis, these reactive species were found to undergo addition with various nucleophiles at the less substituted α-carbon to produce highly substituted enamides in high yields with complete control of regioselectivity.
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