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Ureidopeptide-based Bronsted bases: Design, synthesis and application to the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of β-amino nitriles from (arylsulfonyl)acetonitriles
Diosdado, Saioa,Lopez, Rosa,Palomo, Claudio
, p. 6526 - 6531 (2014)
The addition of cyanoalkyl moieties to imines is a very attractive method for the preparation of β-amino nitriles. We present a highly efficient organocatalytic methodology for the stereoselective synthesis of β-amino nitriles, in which the key to success is the use of ureidopeptide-based Bronsted base catalysts in combination with (arylsulfonyl)acetonitriles as synthetic equivalents of the acetonitrile anion. The method gives access to a variety of β-amino nitriles with good yields and excellent enantioselectivities, and broadens the stereoselective Mannich-type methodologies available for their synthesis. Learning from peptides: A concise route for the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of β-amino nitriles has been achieved by using ureidopeptide-based Bronsted bases as catalysts in the Mannich reaction of N-Boc imines and (arylsulfonyl)acetonitriles (see scheme; Boc=tert-butoxycarbonyl, napht=naphthyl, TMS=trimethylsilyl).
