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A Unified and Desymmetric Approach to Chiral Tertiary Alkyl Halides
Huang, Zhongxing,Low, Kam-Hung,Zhang, Suihan,Zheng, Yin,Zi, Weiwei
supporting information, p. 1951 - 1961 (2022/02/09)
Enantioenriched tertiary alkyl halides are prevalent in bioactive molecules and can serve as versatile synthetic intermediates to construct complex structures. While conventional access to these motifs often hinges on stereoselective carbon-halogen or carbon-carbon bond formation reactions, desymmetric approaches using halogenated and prochiral tetrasubstituted carbons are largely elusive in comparison. Here, we report that a suite of dinuclear zinc catalysts with a prolinol- or pipecolinol-derived tetradentate ligand can reductively desymmetrize a large collection of easily available halomalonic esters to α-halo-β-hydroxyesters. These polyfunctionalized tertiary alkyl fluorides, chlorides, and bromides proved to be useful intermediates toward fluorinated drug analogs and polyhalogenated monoterpenes. The facile intramolecular epoxidation of the chiral chloride and bromide products has also enabled expeditious access to natural products containing tertiary alcohol motifs.
Ester Enolates from α-Acetoxy Esters. Synthesis of Aryl Malonic and α-Aryl Alkanoic Esters from Aryl Nucleophiles and α-Keto Esters
Ghosh, Subrata,Pardo, Simon N.,Salomon, Robert G.
, p. 4692 - 4702 (2007/10/02)
Ester enolates are generated by reductive α-deacetoxylation of α-acetoxy-α-arylmalonic esters or α-acetoxy-α-arylalkanoic esters with lithium in liquid ammonia or sodium α-(dimethylamino)naphthalenide in hexamethylphosphoramide-benzene.Since the requisite α-acetoxy esters are available from aryl nucleophiles, the reductions provide effective new synthetic routes to arylmalonic esters and α-arylalkanoic esters.For example, 2-(p-isobutylphenyl)propionic acid (ibuprofen, a commercially important nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agent) is obtained in 73percent yield overall from isobutylbenzene.Arenes, aryllithiums, or arylmagnesium halides react with α-keto esters, e.g., diethyl oxomalonate, ethyl pyruvate, methyl phenylglyoxalate, or alkyl glyoxylates, to afford α-hydroxy esters.These are acetylated with acetic anhydride-triethylamine and p-(dimethylamino)pyridine as a catalyst.Reductive α-deoxygenation then allows replacement of the acetoxy group by hydrogen or an alkyl group.
