Strategies for achieving the direct catalytic asymmetric syntheses of benzofuran-containing hetero-triarylmethanes using a 1,4-type Friedel–Crafts (hetero)arylation reaction were developed.
An
unprecedented umpolung spirocyclopropanation reaction of p-quinone methides and α-keto carbonyls is described.
Our umpolung strategy based on 1,6-conjugate addition and intramolecular
nucleophilic substitution offers a new method for effective access
to a series of highly functionalized spirocyclohexadienonyl cyclopropanes
having two vicinal quaternary carbons in ≤98% yield and >20:1
dr. Significantly, cyclic and acyclic topological structures of α-keto
carbonyls as 1,1-dipole one-carbon synthons have a distinct influence
on the stereochemistry of products, showing a reversal of diastereoselectivity
in this P(NMe2)3-mediated umpolung spirocyclopropanation.
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