ChemInform Abstract: Bifunctional Acid Catalysts for Organic Synthesis

ChemInform ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Pingfan Li ◽  
Hisashi Yamamoto
Author(s):  
Alex L. Bagdasarian ◽  
Stasik Popov ◽  
Benjamin Wigman ◽  
Wenjing Wei ◽  
woojin lee ◽  
...  

Herein we report the 3,5bistrifluoromethylphenyl urea-catalyzed functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds. In this system, the urea catalyst mediates the formation of high-energy vinyl carbocations that undergo facile C–H insertion and Friedel–Crafts reactions. We introduce a new paradigm for these privileged scaffolds where the combination of hydrogen bonding motifs and strong bases affords highly active Lewis acid catalysts capable of ionizing strong C–O bonds. Despite the highly Lewis acidic nature of these catalysts that enables triflate abstraction from sp<sup>2</sup> carbons, these newly found reaction conditions allow for the formation of heterocycles and tolerate highly Lewis basic heteroaromatic substrates. This strategy showcases the potential utility of dicoordinated vinyl carbocations in organic synthesis.<br>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex L. Bagdasarian ◽  
Stasik Popov ◽  
Benjamin Wigman ◽  
Wenjing Wei ◽  
woojin lee ◽  
...  

Herein we report the 3,5bistrifluoromethylphenyl urea-catalyzed functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds. In this system, the urea catalyst mediates the formation of high-energy vinyl carbocations that undergo facile C–H insertion and Friedel–Crafts reactions. We introduce a new paradigm for these privileged scaffolds where the combination of hydrogen bonding motifs and strong bases affords highly active Lewis acid catalysts capable of ionizing strong C–O bonds. Despite the highly Lewis acidic nature of these catalysts that enables triflate abstraction from sp<sup>2</sup> carbons, these newly found reaction conditions allow for the formation of heterocycles and tolerate highly Lewis basic heteroaromatic substrates. This strategy showcases the potential utility of dicoordinated vinyl carbocations in organic synthesis.<br>


Author(s):  
Alemayehu Gashaw ◽  
Dereje Kebebew Debeli ◽  
Meseret Chemeda

: The C-H and N-H functionalization of indoles is an interesting area of research that has a useful impact on organic synthesis due to the availability of chiral indole scaffolds in the discovery of drugs, synthetic bioactive compounds, and natural products. The chiral phosphoric acid catalysts (CPAs) have proven to be a powerful and versatile class of enantioselective organocatalysts. Many asymmetric syntheses of organic compounds have been carried out with these catalysts in C–C and C-N bond formation reactions, and great progress has been reported. By 2011, several reviews were published covering some important topics and recent achievements in this field. Therefore, in this review, the most recent advances, research breakthroughs with key examples involving mechanisms of CPA-catalyzed C-H and N-H functionalization of indoles to form central chirality via Friedel Crafts, Michael type, and rearrangement reactions were reviewed and reported.


2005 ◽  
Vol 225 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjaram M. Reddy ◽  
Pavani M. Sreekanth ◽  
Vangala R. Reddy

Synthesis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (14) ◽  
pp. 2031-2037
Author(s):  
Antonio Leyva-Pérez ◽  
María Tejeda-Serrano ◽  
Sergio Sanz-Navarro ◽  
Finn Blake

Zeolites are the most used catalysts worldwide in petrochemistry processes, with particular ability to stabilize carbocations. However, the use of zeolites in organic synthesis is still scarce. We show here that representative carboxonium-mediated organic reactions, such as the Nazarov cyclization and the tert-butylation of alcohols with tert-butyl acetate, typically performed with very strong acid catalysts in solution such as triflic acid, can be catalyzed by simple zeolites with high yield and selectivity. The aluminosilicate framework stabilizes the intermediate carboxonium species and overrides the need for superacid protons in solution.


2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiji Maruoka

The chemistry of bidentate Lewis acids belongs to an unexplored field of science, and so far has been only poorly studied. This paper illustrates the design of several bidentate Al and Ti Lewis acids, and their successful application to selective organic synthesis, particularly to asymmetric synthesis. For example, a new, chiral bidentate Ti(IV) complex is successfully designed by adding commercially available Ti(OPri)4 and (S)-binaphthol sequentially to 2,2'-bis(tritylamino)-4,4'-dichlorobenzophenone in CH2Cl2, and can be utilized for simultaneous coordination to aldehyde carbonyls, thereby allowing the precise enantioface discrimination of such carbonyls for a new catalytic, practical enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with allyltributyltin. This chiral bidentate Ti(IV) catalyst exhibits uniformly high asymmetric induction as well as high chemical yields for various aldehydes. The present enantioselective allylation is highly chemoselective in the presence of other carbonyl moieties.


ChemInform ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Karen Wilson ◽  
J. Kate Shorrock ◽  
Angelique Renson ◽  
Wolfgang Hoyer ◽  
Bertrand Gosselin ◽  
...  

ChemInform ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kobayashi ◽  
Y. Mori ◽  
Y. Yamashita

ChemInform ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjaram M. Reddy ◽  
Pavani M. Sreekanth ◽  
Vangala R. Reddy

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