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obtain a diamine, conveniently isolated as ditosylated product 10
in 30% overall yield (four steps, 75% yield per step) and 95% ee.
Product 10 afforded enantiopure single crystals which, upon X-
ray diffraction analysis (see SI), provided its configuration as
3R,3aR,7aS in complete agreement with the previous assign-
ments by NMR and ECD spectroscopy on adducts 5aa and 5da.
To summarize, we have developed an organocatalytic
nucleophilic dearomatization of activated N-alkylpyridinium
salts 1 with aldehydes 2 under chiral enamine catalysis. The
process exhibits complete C-4 regioselectivity along with high
levels of diastereo- and enantiocontrol, enabling a high-yielding
synthesis of a broad range of optically active 1,4-dihydropyridines
(5 or 6). The utility of the present protocol was demonstrated by
successfully employing one of the obtained products in the
catalytic stereoselective preparation of a synthetically challenging
functionalized octahydropyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridine, a core structure
of anticancer peptidomimetics.
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We acknowledge financial support from the University of
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Reddy’s Chirotech Technology Centre (Cambridge, U.K.) is
acknowledged. We thank Luca Zuppiroli (University of
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