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Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Metalloradical activation of carbonyl azides for enantioselective radical aziridination

The carbonyl azide TrocN3 (2,2,2-trichloroethoxycarbonyl azide) is a potent nitrogen radical precursor for radical olefin aziridination via Co(II)-based metalloradical catalysis (MRC). The cobalt(II) complex of D2-symmetric chiral amidoporphyrin 3,5-DitBu-QingPhyrin proves to be an efficient catalyst that can activate TrocN3 at room temperature to aziridinate various styrene derivatives, providing chiral N-carbonyl aziridines in high yields with excellent enantioselectivities. The new Co(II)-based catalytic system can even enable asymmetric aziridination of electron-deficient alkenes, such as methyl and ethyl acrylates. In addition to facile removal of Troc group for generation of unprotected aziridines, the resulting N-Troc-aziridines can be effectively opened by different types of nucleophiles to afford a series of chiral amine derivatives with excellent stereospecificity. Several lines of computational and experimental evidence support the underlying stepwise radical mechanism for Co(II)-catalyzed olefin aziridination. This represents the first example of asymmetric intermolecular olefin aziridination that employs carbonyl azides as the nitrogen source.

Copper bis(oxazolines) as catalysts for stereoselective aziridination of styrenes with N-tosyloxycarbamates

A Cu(I)-catalyzed asymmetric aziridination of styrenes with a chiral N-tosyloxycarbamate has been developed. Double stereodifferentiation was observed and both the N-tosyloxycarbamate substituent and the bis(oxazoline) ligand have a significant effect on the yields and diastereoselectivities. The best results for the aziridination were obtained with electron-deficient styrenes. Subsequent ring-opening reactions of styrene-derived aziridines at the benzylic position were observed with various oxygen and nitrogen nucleophiles under Lewis acid catalysis affording the corresponding products with complete inversion of stereochemistry. The strategy was used to synthesize the β-blocker, (R)-nifenalol.

Stereoselective rhodium-catalyzed amination of alkenes

The first stereoselective rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular aziridination and C-H amination of alkenes to produce chiral carbamate-protected aziridines and allylic amines is described. Good yields and diastereoselectivities were achieved using a readily av