Secondary 1,3,2-diazaphospholenes have a polarized P-H bond and are emerging as molecular hydrides. Herein, a class of chiral, conformationally restricted methoxy-1,3,2-diazaphospholene catalysts is reported. We demonstrate their catalytic potential in asymmetric 1,4-reductions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl derivatives, including enones, acyl pyrroles, and amides, which proceeded in enantioselectivities of up to 95.5:4.5 e.r.
Valuable 1-azabicycloalkane derivatives have been synthesized through a novel gold(I)-catalyzed desulfonylative cyclization strategy. An ammoniumation reaction of ynones substituted at the 1-position with an N-sulfonyl azacycle took place in the presence of a gold cation by intramolecular cyclization of the disubstituted sulfonamide moiety onto the triple bond. Depending on the size of the heterocyclic ring and substitution of the substrates, two unprecedented forms of nucleophilic attack on the sulfonyl group were exploited, that is, a N-desulfonylation in the presence of an external protic O nucleophile (37-87 %, 10 examples) and a unique N-to-O 1,5-sulfonyl migration (60-98 %, 9 examples).
1,3,2‐Diazaphospholenes (DAPs) are an emerging class of organic hydrides. In this work, we exploited them as efficient catalysts for very mild reductive Claisen rearrangements. The method is tolerant towards a wide variety of functional groups and operates at ambient temperature. Besides being enantiospecific for substrates with existing stereogenic centers, the diastereoselectivity can be switched by varying solvents and DAP catalysts. The reaction kinetics show direct rearrangements of O‐bound phospholene enolates and provide a proof‐of‐principle for catalytic enantioselective reactions.
Polysubstituted pyrrolin-4-ones have been efficiently synthesized from readily available 1-(N-sulfonylazetidin-2-yl) ynones via gold(I)-catalyzed cyclization/nucleophilic substitution in the presence of various nucleophiles, such as water, alcohols, or indoles. Additionally, 3-iodopyrrolin-4-one derivatives have also been obtained under the same reaction conditions upon addition of 1.2 equiv of N-iodosuccinimide.
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