Dirhodium acetate and silver triflate cooperatively catalyzed tandem cyclization/three-component reactions of 2-alkynylarylaldimines with diazo compounds and water or alcohols are reported to afford 1,2-dihydroisoquinolines bearing alpha-hydroxyl-beta-amino carboxylate skeleton in high yield.
An elegant synergistic catalytic system comprising a ruthenium complex with a chiral Brønsted acid was developed for a four-component Mannich/cascade aza-Michael reaction. The ruthenium-associated ammonium ylides successfully trapped with in situ generated imines indicates a stepwise process of proton transfer in the ruthenium-catalyzed carbenoid N-H insertion reaction. The different decomposition abilities of various ruthenium complexes towards diazo compounds were well explained by the calculated thermodynamic data. The transformation features a mild, rapid, and efficient method for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure 1,3,4-tetrasubstituted tetrahydroquinolines bearing a quaternary stereogenic carbon center from simple starting precursors in moderate yields with high diastereo- and enantioselectivity.
Water and ethyl diazoacetate were found to be matched components for generating highly reactive nucleophilic oxonium ylide in the presence of a dirhodium acetate catalyst. Simultaneous trapping of the oxonium ylide intermediate with aryl imines gave beta-aryl isoserine derivatives with high diastereoselectivity.
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