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Iridium-catalysed ortho-directed deuterium labelling of aromatic esters - An experimental and theoretical study on directing group chemoselectivity
Devlin, Jennifer,Kerr, William J.,Lindsay, David M.,McCabe, Timothy J. D.,Reid, Marc,Tuttle, Tell
, p. 11676 - 11698 (2015/08/18)
Herein we report a combined experimental and theoretical study on the deuterium labelling of benzoate ester derivatives, utilizing our developed iridium N-heterocyclic carbene/phosphine catalysts. A range of benzoate esters were screened, including derivatives with electron-donating and -withdrawing groups in the para- position. The substrate scope, in terms of the alkoxy group, was studied and the nature of the catalyst counter-ion was shown to have a profound effect on the efficiency of isotope exchange. Finally, the observed chemoselectivity was rationalized by rate studies and theoretical calculations, and this insight was applied to the selective labelling of benzoate esters bearing a second directing group.
Enzyme-catalysed synthesis and reactions of benzene oxide/oxepine derivatives of methyl benzoates
Boyd, Derek R.,Sharma, Narain D.,Harrison, John S.,Malone, John. F.,McRoberts, W. Colin,Hamilton, John T. G.,Harper, David B.
experimental part, p. 1251 - 1259 (2008/10/09)
A series of twelve benzoate esters was metabolised, by species of the Phellinus genus of wood-rotting fungi, to yield the corresponding benzyl alcohol derivatives and eight salicylates. The isolation of a stable oxepine metabolite, from methyl benzoate, allied to evidence of the migration and retention of a carbomethoxy group (the NIH Shift), during enzyme-catalysed ortho-hydroxylation of alkyl benzoates to form salicylates, is consistent with a mechanism involving an initial arene epoxidation step. This mechanism was confirmed by the isolation of a remarkably stable, optically active, substituted benzene oxide metabolite of methyl 2-(trifluoromethyl)benzoate, which slowly converted into the racemic form. The arene oxide was found to undergo a cycloaddition reaction with 4-phenyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione to yield a crystalline cycloadduct whose structure and racemic nature was established by X-ray crystallography. The metabolite was also found to undergo some novel benzene oxide reactions, including epoxidation to give an anti-diepoxide, base-catalysed hydrolysis to form a trans-dihydrodiol and acid-catalysed aromatisation to yield a salicylate derivative via the NIH Shift of a carbomethoxy group. This journal is The Royal Society of Chemistry.
