The catalytic, enantioselective oxidative cyclization of naphthol-derived carboxylic acids mediated by chiral hypervalent iodine reagents has been studied extensively in the recent past, but analogous reactions of non-carboxylic substrates are yet unknown. This paper describes a catalytic, enantioselective, hypervalent iodine-promoted oxidative cycloetherification reaction of naphtholic alcohols. The new process relies on a variant of the Uyanik-Ishihara catalyst, in which the stereogenic centers have been relocated closer to the iodine atom. The new catalyst design affords optical yields comparable to those available with Uyanik-Ishihara iodides, but chemical yields are sensibly higher, at least with the tests substrates. An even more problematic reaction is the catalytic, enantioselective oxidative cyclization of naphtholic sulfonamides. In this case, the new catalyst affords significantly higher optical inductions than Uyanik-Ishihara iodides. The kinetic resolution of particular naphtholic alcohols is demonstrated. The absolute configuration of a numver of enantioenriched compounds obtained in this study was ascertained by X-ray diffractometry.
An efficient Lewis acid catalyzed S(N)2-type ring opening of substituted aziridines with electron-rich arenes/heteroarenes to provide substituted 2,2-diaryl/heteroarylethylamines in excellent yields and stereoselectivity (er, dr >99:1) is described.
A chiral aryl iodide promotes the enantioselective oxidative cyclization of 1-naphtholic sulfonamides, albeit in moderate ee and low yield. The products tend to crystallize as conglomerates. Recrystallization thus increases their ee to > 99% ee. This highly enantioenriched material provides seed crystals for the resolution of the racemate (prepared in high yield by oxidative cyclization with (diacetoxyiodo)benzene in trifluoroacetic acid) by coupled preferential crystallization. This enables the production of significant quantities of highly enantioenriched products, despite the low efficiency of the enantioselective reaction.
Electron-Rich Arenes/Heteroarenes. -A dia-and enantioselective route to 2-arylethylamines via intermolecular ring opening of substituted N-activated aziridines with electron-rich arenes and heteroarenes is developed. -(GHORAI*, M. K.; TIWARI, D. P.; JAIN, N.; J. Org. Chem. 78 (2013) 14, 7121-7130, http://dx.
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