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Mechanistic dichotomy in the asymmetric allylation of aldehydes with allyltrichlorosilanes catalyzed by chiral pyridine N-oxides
Malkov, Andrei V.,Stoncius, Sigitas,Bell, Mark,Castelluzzo, Fabiomassimo,Ramirez-Lopez, Pedro,Biedermannova, Lada,Langer, Vratislav,Rulisek, Lubomir,Kocovsky, Pavel
, p. 9167 - 9185 (2013)
Detailed kinetic and computational investigation of the enantio- and diastereoselective allylation of aldehydes 1 with allyltrichlorosilanes 5, employing the pyridine N-oxides METHOX (9) and QUINOX (10) as chiral organocatalysts, indicate that the reaction can proceed through a dissociative (cationic) or associative (neutral) mechanism: METHOX apparently favors a pentacoordinate cationic transition state, while the less sterically demanding QUINOX is likely to operate via a hexacoordinate neutral complex. In both pathways, only one molecule of the catalyst is involved in the rate- and selectivity-determining step, which is supported by both experimental and computational data. Copyright
