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Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of β-amino alcohols by nitrene insertion
Zhou, Zijun,Tan, Yuqi,Shen, Xiang,Ivlev, Sergei,Meggers, Eric
, p. 452 - 458 (2020/12/31)
Chiral β-amino alcohols are important building blocks for the synthesis of drugs, natural products, chiral auxiliaries, chiral ligands and chiral organocatalysts. The catalytic asymmetric β-amination of alcohols offers a direct strategy to access this class of molecules. Herein, we report a general intramolecular C(sp3)-H nitrene insertion method for the synthesis of chiral oxazolidin-2-ones as precursors of chiral β-amino alcohols. Specifically, the ring-closing C(sp3)-H amination of N-benzoyloxycarbamates with 2 mol% of a chiral ruthenium catalyst provides cyclic carbamates in up to 99% yield and with up to 99% ee. The method is applicable to benzylic, allylic, and propargylic C-H bonds and can even be applied to completely non-activated C (sp3)-H bonds, although with somewhat reduced yields and stereoselectivities. The obtained cyclic carbamates can subsequently be hydrolyzed to obtain chiral β-amino alcohols. The method is very practical as the catalyst can be easily synthesized on a gram scale and can be recycled after the reaction for further use. The synthetic value of the new method is demonstrated with the asymmetric synthesis of a chiral oxazolidin-2-one as intermediate for the synthesis of the natural product aurantioclavine and chiral β-amino alcohols that are intermediates for the synthesis of chiral amino acids, indane-derived chiral Box-ligands, and the natural products dihydrohamacanthin A and dragmacidin A.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
Enantioselective Cascade Biocatalysis for Deracemization of Racemic β-Amino Alcohols to Enantiopure (S)-β-Amino Alcohols by Employing Cyclohexylamine Oxidase and ω-Transaminase
Zhang, Jian-Dong,Chang, Ya-Wen,Dong, Rui,Yang, Xiao-Xiao,Gao, Li-Li,Li, Jing,Huang, Shuang-Ping,Guo, Xing-Mei,Zhang, Chao-Feng,Chang, Hong-Hong
, p. 124 - 128 (2020/09/21)
Optically active β-amino alcohols are very useful chiral intermediates frequently used in the preparation of pharmaceutically active substances. Here, a novel cyclohexylamine oxidase (ArCHAO) was identified from the genome sequence of Arthrobacter sp. TYUT010-15 with the R-stereoselective deamination activity of β-amino alcohol. ArCHAO was cloned and successfully expressed in E. coli BL21, purified and characterized. Substrate-specific analysis revealed that ArCHAO has high activity (4.15 to 6.34 U mg?1 protein) and excellent enantioselectivity toward the tested β-amino alcohols. By using purified ArCHAO, a wide range of racemic β-amino alcohols were resolved, (S)-β-amino alcohols were obtained in >99 % ee. Deracemization of racemic β-amino alcohols was conducted by ArCHAO-catalyzed enantioselective deamination and transaminase-catalyzed enantioselective amination to afford (S)-β-amino alcohols in excellent conversion (78–94 %) and enantiomeric excess (>99 %). Preparative-scale deracemization was carried out with 50 mM (6.859 g L?1) racemic 2-amino-2-phenylethanol, (S)-2-amino-2-phenylethanol was obtained in 75 % isolated yield and >99 % ee.
Visible-Light-Driven N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalyzed γ- and ?-Alkylation with Alkyl Radicals
Dai, Lei,Xia, Zi-Hao,Gao, Yuan-Yuan,Gao, Zhong-Hua,Ye, Song
supporting information, p. 18124 - 18130 (2019/11/13)
The merging of photoredox catalysis and N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis for γ- and ?-alkylation of enals with alkyl radicals was developed. The alkylation reaction of γ-oxidized enals with alkyl halides worked well for the synthesis γ-multisubstituted-α,β-unsaturated esters, including those with challenging vicinal all-carbon quaternary centers. The synthesis of ?-multisubstituted-α,β-γ,δ-diunsaturated esters by an unprecedented NHC-catalyzed ?-functionalization was also established.