- High-Spin and Low-Spin State Perferryl Intermediates: Reactivity-Selectivity Correlation in Fe(PDP) Catalyzed Oxidation of (+)-Sclareolide
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Five iron complexes of the Fe(PDP) family, giving rise to the low-spin (S=1/2) and high-spin (S=3/2) perferryl oxygen-transferring intermediates, have been screened in the C?H oxidation of the bulky steroidal substrate (3aR)-(+)-sclareolide with H2/
- Zima, Alexandra M.,Babushkin, Dmitrii E.,Lyakin, Oleg Y.,Bryliakov, Konstantin P.,Talsi, Evgenii P.
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- N-Ammonium Ylide Mediators for Electrochemical C-H Oxidation
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The site-specific oxidation of strong C(sp3)-H bonds is of uncontested utility in organic synthesis. From simplifying access to metabolites and late-stage diversification of lead compounds to truncating retrosynthetic plans, there is a growing need for new reagents and methods for achieving such a transformation in both academic and industrial circles. One main drawback of current chemical reagents is the lack of diversity with regard to structure and reactivity that prevents a combinatorial approach for rapid screening to be employed. In that regard, directed evolution still holds the greatest promise for achieving complex C-H oxidations in a variety of complex settings. Herein we present a rationally designed platform that provides a step toward this challenge using N-ammonium ylides as electrochemically driven oxidants for site-specific, chemoselective C(sp3)-H oxidation. By taking a first-principles approach guided by computation, these new mediators were identified and rapidly expanded into a library using ubiquitous building blocks and trivial synthesis techniques. The ylide-based approach to C-H oxidation exhibits tunable selectivity that is often exclusive to this class of oxidants and can be applied to real-world problems in the agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors.
- Saito, Masato,Kawamata, Yu,Meanwell, Michael,Navratil, Rafael,Chiodi, Debora,Carlson, Ethan,Hu, Pengfei,Chen, Longrui,Udyavara, Sagar,Kingston, Cian,Tanwar, Mayank,Tyagi, Sameer,McKillican, Bruce P.,Gichinga, Moses G.,Schmidt, Michael A.,Eastgate, Martin D.,Lamberto, Massimiliano,He, Chi,Tang, Tianhua,Malapit, Christian A.,Sigman, Matthew S.,Minteer, Shelley D.,Neurock, Matthew,Baran, Phil S.
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p. 7859 - 7867
(2021/05/26)
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- Catalyst-controlled aliphatic C—H oxidations
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The invention provides simple small molecule, non-heme iron catalyst systems with broad substrate scope that can predictably enhance or overturn a substrate's inherent reactivity preference for sp3-hybridized C—H bond oxidation. The invention also provides methods for selective aliphatic C—H bond oxidation. Furthermore, a structure-based catalyst reactivity model is disclosed that quantitatively correlates the innate physical properties of the substrate to the site-selectivities observed as a function of the catalyst. The catalyst systems can be used in combination with oxidants such as hydrogen peroxide to effect highly selective oxidations of unactivated sp3 C—H bonds over a broad range of substrates.
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- Selective C(sp3)?H Aerobic Oxidation Enabled by Decatungstate Photocatalysis in Flow
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A mild and selective C(sp3)?H aerobic oxidation enabled by decatungstate photocatalysis has been developed. The reaction can be significantly improved in a microflow reactor enabling the safe use of oxygen and enhanced irradiation of the reaction mixture. Our method allows for the oxidation of both activated and unactivated C?H bonds (30 examples). The ability to selectively oxidize natural scaffolds, such as (?)-ambroxide, pregnenolone acetate, (+)-sclareolide, and artemisinin, exemplifies the utility of this new method.
- Laudadio, Gabriele,Govaerts, Sebastian,Wang, Ying,Ravelli, Davide,Koolman, Hannes F.,Fagnoni, Maurizio,Djuric, Stevan W.,No?l, Timothy
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p. 4078 - 4082
(2018/03/21)
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- Scalable, Electrochemical Oxidation of Unactivated C-H Bonds
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A practical electrochemical oxidation of unactivated C-H bonds is presented. This reaction utilizes a simple redox mediator, quinuclidine, with inexpensive carbon and nickel electrodes to selectively functionalize "deep-seated" methylene and methine moieties. The process exhibits a broad scope and good functional group compatibility. The scalability, as illustrated by a 50 g scale oxidation of sclareolide, bodes well for immediate and widespread adoption.
- Kawamata, Yu,Yan, Ming,Liu, Zhiqing,Bao, Deng-Hui,Chen, Jinshan,Starr, Jeremy T.,Baran, Phil S.
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p. 7448 - 7451
(2017/06/13)
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- The iron(II) complex [Fe(CF3SO3)2(mcp)] as a convenient, readily available catalyst for the selective oxidation of methylenic sites in alkanes
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The efficient and selective oxidation of secondary C-H sites of alkanes is achieved by using low catalyst loadings of a non-expensive, readily available iron catalyst [Fe(II)(CF3SO3)2(mcp)], {Fe-mcp, [mcp=N,N'-dimethyl-N,N'-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)cyclohexane-trans-1,2-diamine]}, and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as oxidant, via a simple reaction protocol. Natural products are selectively oxidized and isolated in synthetically amenable yields. The easy access to large quantities of the catalyst and the simplicity of the C-H oxidation procedure make this system a particularly convenient tool to carry out alkane C-H oxidation reactions on the preparative scale, and in short reaction times.
- Canta, Merce,Font, David,Gomez, Laura,Ribas, Xavi,Costas, Miquel
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p. 818 - 830
(2014/04/03)
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- Making Fe(BPBP)-catalyzed C-H and CC oxidations more affordable
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The limited availability of catalytic reaction components may represent a major hurdle for the practical application of many catalytic procedures in organic synthesis. In this work, we demonstrate that the mixture of isomeric iron complexes [Fe(OTf)2(mix-BPBP)] (mix-1), composed of Λ-α-[Fe(OTf)2(S,S-BPBP)] (S,S-1), Δ-α- [Fe(OTf)2(R,R-BPBP)] (R,R-1) and Δ/Λ-β-[Fe(OTf) 2(R,S-BPBP)] (R,S-1), is a practical catalyst for the preparative oxidation of various aliphatic compounds including model hydrocarbons and optically pure natural products using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. Among the species present in mix-1, S,S-1 and R,R-1 are catalytically active, act independently and represent ca. 75% of mix-1. The remaining 25% of mix-1 is represented by mesomeric R,S-1 which nominally plays a spectator role in both C-H and C=C bond oxidation reactions. Overall, this mixture of iron complexes displays the same catalytic profile as its enantiopure components that have been previously used separately in sp3 C-H oxidations. In contrast to them, mix-1 is readily available on a multi-gram scale via two high yielding steps from crude dl/meso-2,2′-bipyrrolidine. Next to its use in C-H oxidation, mix-1 is active in chemospecific epoxidation reactions, which has allowed us to develop a practical catalytic protocol for the synthesis of epoxides.
- Yazerski, Vital A.,Spannring, Peter,Gatineau, David,Woerde, Charlotte H.M.,Wieclawska, Sara M.,Lutz, Martin,Kleijn, Henk,Klein Gebbink, Robertus J.M.
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p. 2062 - 2070
(2014/03/21)
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- Catalyst-controlled aliphatic c-h oxidations with a predictive model for site-selectivity
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Selective aliphatic C-H bond oxidations may have a profound impact on synthesis because these bonds exist across all classes of organic molecules. Central to this goal are catalysts with broad substrate scope (small-molecule-like) that predictably enhance or overturn the substrate's inherent reactivity preference for oxidation (enzyme-like). We report a simple small-molecule, non-heme iron catalyst that achieves predictable catalyst-controlled site-selectivity in preparative yields over a range of topologically diverse substrates. A catalyst reactivity model quantitatively correlates the innate physical properties of the substrate to the site-selectivities observed as a function of the catalyst.
- Gormisky, Paul E.,White, M. Christina
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p. 14052 - 14055
(2013/10/21)
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- Cp* iridium precatalysts for selective C-h oxidation with sodium periodate as the terminal oxidant
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Sodium periodate (NaIO4) is shown to be a milder and more efficient terminal oxidant for C-H oxidation with CpIr (Cp* = C 5Me5) precatalysts than ceric(IV) ammonium nitrate. Synthetically useful yields, regioselectivities, and functional group tolerance were found for methylene oxidation of substrates bearing a phenyl, ketone, ester, or sulfonate group. Oxidation of the natural products (-)-ambroxide and sclareolide proceeded selectively, and retention of configuration was seen in cis-decalin hydroxylation. At 60 C, even primary C-H bonds can be activated: whereas methane was overoxidized to CO2 in 39% yield without giving partially oxidized products, ethane was transformed into acetic acid in 25% yield based on total NaIO4. 18O labeling was demonstrated in cis-decalin hydroxylation with 18OH2 and NaIO 4. A kinetic isotope effect of 3.0 ± 0.1 was found in cyclohexane oxidation at 23 C, suggesting C-H bond cleavage as the rate-limiting step. Competition experiments between C-H and water oxidation show that C-H oxidation of sodium 4-ethylbenzene sulfonate is favored by 4 orders of magnitude. In operando time-resolved dynamic light scattering and kinetic analysis exclude the involvement of metal oxide nanoparticles and support our previously suggested homogeneous pathway.
- Zhou, Meng,Hintermair, Ulrich,Hashiguchi, Brian G.,Parent, Alexander R.,Hashmi, Sara M.,Elimelech, Menachem,Periana, Roy A.,Brudvig, Gary W.,Crabtree, Robert H.
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p. 957 - 965
(2013/04/23)
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- An iron catalyst for oxidation of alkyl C-H bonds showing enhanced selectivity for methylenic sites
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Many are called but few are chosen: A nonheme iron complex catalyzes the oxidation of alkyl C-H bonds by using H2O2 as the oxidant, showing an enhanced selectivity for secondary over tertiary C-H bonds (see scheme). Copyright
- Prat, Irene,Gomez, Laura,Canta, Merce,Ribas, Xavi,Costas, Miquel
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p. 1908 - 1913
(2013/03/14)
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- Combined effects on selectivity in Fe-catalyzed methylene oxidation
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Methylene C-H bonds are among the most difficult chemical bonds to selectively functionalize because of their abundance in organic structures and inertness to most chemical reagents. Their selective oxidations in biosynthetic pathways underscore the power of such reactions for streamlining the synthesis of molecules with complex oxygenation patterns. We report that an iron catalyst can achieve methylene C-H bond oxidations in diverse natural-product settings with predictable and high chemo-, site-, and even diastereoselectivities. Electronic, steric, and stereoelectronic factors, which individually promote selectivity with this catalyst, are demonstrated to be powerful control elements when operating in combination in complex molecules. This small-molecule catalyst displays site selectivities complementary to those attained through enzymatic catalysis.
- Chen, Mark S.,White, M. Christina
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(2010/10/05)
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