Leaving-group variation in aprotic Bamford-Stevens carbene generation

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Richard Chamberlin ◽  
F. Thomas Bond
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (21) ◽  
pp. 3909-3916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Kandioller ◽  
Marlene Reikersdorfer ◽  
Sarah Theiner ◽  
Alexander Roller ◽  
Michaela Hejl ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Montesinos-Magraner ◽  
Matteo Costantini ◽  
Rodrigo Ramirez-Contreras ◽  
Michael E. Muratore ◽  
Magnus J. Johansson ◽  
...  

Asymmetric cyclopropane synthesis currently requires bespoke strategies, methods, substrates and reagents, even when targeting similar compounds. This limits the speed and chemical space available for discovery campaigns. Here we introduce a practical and versatile diazocompound, and we demonstrate its performance in the first unified asymmetric synthesis of functionalized cyclopropanes. We found that the redox-active leaving group in this reagent enhances the reactivity and selectivity of geminal carbene transfer. This effect enabled the asymmetric cyclopropanation of a wide range of olefins including unactivated aliphatic alkenes, enabling the 3-step total synthesis of (–)-dictyopterene A. This unified synthetic approach delivers high enantioselectivities that are independent of the stereoelectronic properties of the functional groups transferred. Our results demonstrate that orthogonally-differentiated diazocompounds are viable and advantageous equivalents of single-carbon chirons<i>.</i>


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Marija Skvorcova ◽  
Aigars Jirgensons

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