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Leuckart-Wallach Route Toward Isocyanides and Some Applications
Neochoritis, Constantinos G.,Zarganes-Tzitzikas, Tryfon,Stotani, Silvia,D?mling, Adrian,Herdtweck, Eberhardt,Khoury, Kareem,D?mling, Alexander
supporting information, p. 493 - 499 (2015/09/22)
Isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions (IMCR) are among the most important chemical reactions to efficiently generate molecular diversity and have found widespread use in industry and academia. Generally, isocyanides are synthesized in 1-2 steps starting from primary amines. Here, we provide experimental detail on an alternative approach toward formamides and, thus, isocyanides via the Leuckart-Wallach reaction in an improved variation. The resulting >50 synthesized and characterized formamides are useful starting materials for IMCR, as well as other chemistries. The advantage of using the Leuckart-Wallach pathway to formamides and isocyanides is the lower price, on average, of the starting materials, as well as their differential and complementary structural diversity, as compared to the primary amine pathway.
A cation-directed two-component cascade approach to enantioenriched pyrroloindolines
Wolstenhulme, Jamie R.,Cavell, Alex,Grediak, Matija,Driver, Russell W.,Smith, Martin D.
supporting information, p. 13585 - 13588 (2015/02/19)
A cascade approach to complex pyrroloindolines bearing all-carbon quaternary stereocentres has been developed. This two-component process uses a chiral ammonium salt to control diastereo- and enantioselectivity in the addition of isocyanides to functionalized alkenes to afford pyrroloindolines with up to three stereocentres. A mechanistic proposal involving intramolecular hydrogen bond activation of the isocyanide is described.
