Diarylamines and related scaffolds are among the most common chemotypes in modern drug discovery. While they can potentially possess two chiral axes, there are no studies on their enantioselective synthesis, as these axes typically possess lower stereochemical stabilities. Herein, we report a chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed atroposelective electrophilic halogenation of N-aryl quinoids, a class of compounds that are analogous to diarylamines. This chemistry yields a large range of stereochemically stable Naryl quinoids in excellent yields and atroposelectivity. This work represents the first example of the atroposelective synthesis of a diarylamine-like scaffold and will serve as a gateway to fundamental and applied studies on the scarcely studied chirality of these ubiquitous chiral scaffolds.A tropisomerism, or axial chirality, is ubiquitous throughout modern drug discovery 1−4 and natural products chemistry. 5,6 While most chemists recognize atropisomeric axes pertaining to biaryls, 7 benzamides, 8 and anilides, 9 axial chirality in diarylamines and related scaffolds such as N-aryl quinoids are largely overlooked. Nonetheless, these structural motifs are among the most common potentially atropisomeric chemotypes in medicinal chemistry, with the FDA-approved drugs binimetinib and bosutinib representing examples of diarylamines that exist as rapidly interconverting atropisomers, and a VEGFR inhibitor from Wyeth representing a potentially atropisomeric N-aryl quinoid (Scheme 1A). 10−12 Indeed, a cursory search in the PDB will reveal thousands of cocrystal
Insertion reactions of an in situ generated arynes to a variety of suitably substituted 1,3-quinazolin-4-ones have been demonstrated for a new efficient one-step approach to a diverse range of fused quinazolinone architectures. The present protocol has been effectively utilized to accomplish the concise total synthesis of recently isolated bioactive natural products tryptanthrin, phaitanthrins A-C, and cruciferane.
Diarylamines possess two potentially atropisomeric C−N axes; however, there are few examples of atropisomerically stable diarylamines in the literature, as the contiguous axes can allow for low energy racemization pathways via concerted bond rotations. Herein, we describe highly atropisomerically stable diarylamines that possess barriers to racemization of 30−36 kcal/ mol, corresponding to half-lives to racemization on the decade to century time scale at room temperature. Investigation of the factors that led to the high stereochemical stability suggests that increased conjugation of the aniline lone pair of electrons into a more electron-deficient aryl ring, coupled with intramolecular hydrogenbonding, locked the corresponding axis into a defined planar conformation, disfavoring the lower energy racemization pathways.
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 biogenetic type total synthesis of alkaloids phaitanthrin D and phaitanthrin E has been described. The Csp(3)-Csp(3) bond cleavage with the release of several heteroatoms bearing unexpected leaving groups in intramolecular substitution reactions on an iminium double bond in the quinazolinones has been demonstrated using HMDS/ZnCl2 or NaHMDS. The mechanistic aspects have been supported by isolation and characterization of appropriate intermediates.
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