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Non- C2-Symmetric Chiral-at-Ruthenium Catalyst for Highly Efficient Enantioselective Intramolecular C(sp3)-H Amidation
Zhou, Zijun,Chen, Shuming,Hong, Yubiao,Winterling, Erik,Tan, Yuqi,Hemming, Marcel,Harms, Klaus,Houk,Meggers, Eric
, p. 19048 - 19057 (2019)
A new class of chiral ruthenium catalysts is introduced in which ruthenium is cyclometalated by two 7-methyl-1,7-phenanthrolinium heterocycles, resulting in chelating pyridylidene remote N-heterocyclic carbene ligands (rNHCs). The overall chirality results from a stereogenic metal center featuring either a or Δabsolute configuration. This work features the importance of the relative metal-centered stereochemistry. Only the non-C2-symmetric chiral-at-ruthenium complexes display unprecedented catalytic activity for the intramolecular C(sp3)-H amidation of 1,4,2-dioxazol-5-ones to provide chiral -lactams with up to 99:1 er and catalyst loadings down to 0.005 mol % (up to 11 ?200 TON), while the C2-symmetric diastereomer favors an undesired Curtius-type rearrangement. DFT calculations elucidate the origins of the superior C-H amidation reactivity displayed by the non-C2-symmetric catalysts compared to related C2-symmetric counterparts.
