19781-62-5Relevant articles and documents
Trans-Selective and Switchable Arene Hydrogenation of Phenol Derivatives
Bergander, Klaus,Glorius, Frank,Heusler, Arne,Wollenburg, Marco
, p. 11365 - 11370 (2020/11/24)
A trans-selective arene hydrogenation of abundant phenol derivatives catalyzed by a commercially available heterogeneous palladium catalyst is reported. The described method tolerates a variety of functional groups and provides access to a broad scope of trans-configurated cyclohexanols as potential building blocks for life sciences and beyond in a one-step procedure. The transformation is strategically important because arene hydrogenation preferentially delivers the opposite cis-isomers. The diastereoselectivity of the phenol hydrogenation can be switched to the cis-isomers by employing rhodium-based catalysts. Moreover, a protocol for the chemoselective hydrogenation of phenols to cyclohexanones was developed.
Asymmetric microbial reduction of ketones: absolute configuration of trans-4-ethyl-1-(1S-hydroxyethyl)cyclohexanol
Pinedo-Rivilla, Cristina,Cafeu, Mariana Carrara,Casatejada, Josefina Aleu,Araujo, Angela Regina,Collado, Isidro G.
experimental part, p. 2666 - 2672 (2010/05/17)
A set of five fungal species, Botrytis cinerea, Trichoderma viride and Eutypa lata, and the endophytic fungi Colletotrichum crassipes and Xylaria sp., was used in screening for microbial biocatalysts to detect monooxygenase and alcohol dehydrogenase activities (for the stereoselective reduction of carbonyl compounds). 4-Ethylcyclohexanone and acetophenone were biotransformed by the fungal set. The main reaction pathways involved reduction and hydroxylations at several positions including tertiary carbons. B. cinerea was very effective in the bioreduction of both substrates leading to the chiral alcohol (S)-1-phenylethanol in up to 90% enantiomeric excess, and the cis-trans ratio for 4-ethylcyclohexanol was 0:100. trans-4-Ethyl-1-(1S-hydroxyethyl)cyclohexanol, obtained from biotransformation by means of an acyloin-type reaction, is reported here for the first time. The absolute configurations of the compounds trans-4-ethyl-1-(1S-hydroxyethyl)cyclohexanol and 4-(1S- and 4-(1R-hydroxyethyl)cyclohexanone were determined by NMR analysis of the corresponding Mosher's esters.
Hydroamination of alkylphenols by nitriles
Tarasevich,Zhavrid,Kozlov
, p. 1154 - 1159 (2007/10/03)
N-(Alkyl(alkylcyclohexyl)amines were synthesized by hydroamination of o-, m-, and p-alkyl-phenols with aliphatic nitriles. The stereochemistry of the secondary amines formed is described.
