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chiral auxiliary enables assembly of the amino-Cope substrate in
situ and imparts its influence on both the enamide rearrange-
ment product and the resulting chiral imine. We have
demonstrated that this amino-Cope enabled anionic cascade
can be controlled to afford either chiral cyclic or acyclic
products by use of appropriate nucleophiles and electrophiles.
The possibilities for programming this fertile new anionic
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temperature and resubjected to alternative bases. Our preliminary
investigations have revealed that Na and Li counterions (generated
from treating the amino alcohol adduct with LiHMDS, NaH, BuLi, or
NaHMDS) are critical for the success of the rearrangement while K is
detrimental. This suggests that the Na and Li counterions are playing a
key role, most likely by suppressing the dissociations that plagued
earlier investigations.
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Experimental procedures and characterization data for all
new compounds as well as computational methods
Crystallographic data for 1 (CCDC 1451254) (CIF)
Crystallographic data for 52 (CCDC 1556649) (CIF)
(13) Interestingly, when the imine is unsubstituted, two products are
obtained in a 2:1 ratio in 86% yield. The minor product is the [3,3]-
rearrangement product and major is the [1,3]-rearrangement product
(2:1 dr).
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(15) Protonation of the intermediate enamine results in E/Z-imine
product mixtures, which result in a single compound when reduced
with NaBH4.
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(16) To further confirm this result, we have separately reduced the
imines of 42 and 50 and then oxidized the chiral auxiliary of the
resulting product to its Bus-substituted amine to afford products that
are enantiomeric as evident from optical rotation measurements (see
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(19) This stereochemical assignment has been further validated by
subjecting a common chiral imine separately to the ethyl esters of β-
B, S61 ) crotonate and then chemically converting the resulting amino-
Cope rearrangement products to a common chiral structure. Chemical
characterization revealed that these products were identical in all
respects (NMR, IR, mass-spec) but had opposite optical rotation
(20) The main competing pathway for this new class of anionic
cascades is a retro-Mannich reaction ( Davis, F. A.; Zhang, Y.; Qiu, H.
Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 833 ). It is plausible that the α-substituted
nucleophiles add from the same face as the nucleophiles in Scheme 4
but then fail to undergo the rearrangement and instead undergo a
retro-Mannich reaction before then adding from the opposite face and
rearranging..
Author Contributions
I.C. and P.D contributed equally to the creation of this work.
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank the National Science Foundation (CHE-1266365 to
J.T.N. and CHE-1361104 to K.N.H.) for financial support of
this research. We are grateful for the computational resources
provided by UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education
and the National Science Foundation through XSEDE Science
Gateways Program (TG-CHE040013N).
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