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Lewis Acid Catalyzed Enantioselective Photochemical Rearrangements on the Singlet Potential Energy Surface
Leverenz, Malte,Merten, Christian,Dreuw, Andreas,Bach, Thorsten
supporting information, p. 20053 - 20057 (2019/12/30)
The oxadi-methane rearrangement of 2,4-cyclohexadienones to bicyclic ketones was found to proceed with high enantioselectivity (92-97% ee) in the presence of catalytic amounts of a chiral Lewis acid (15 examples, 52-80% yield). A notable feature of the transformation is the fact that it proceeds on the singlet hypersurface and that no triplet intermediates are involved. Rapid racemic background reactions were therefore avoided, and the catalyst loading could be kept low (10 mol %). Computational studies suggest that the enantioselectivity is determined within a Lewis acid bound singlet intermediate via a conical intersection. The utility of the method was demonstrated by a concise synthesis of the natural product trans-chrysanthemic acid.
Double (internal/external) alkyne insertion reactions of α-diazoketones
Hoye,Dinsmore
, p. 3755 - 3758 (2007/10/02)
Acetylenic α-diazoketone 5, when treated with Rh2(OAc)4 and several different alkynes, gives alkyne insertion/cyclopropenation products. Subsequent catalytic ring opening reactions demonstrate a highly regioselective net double alkyn
