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Synergistic Relay Reactions To Achieve Redox-Neutral α-Alkylations of Olefinic Alcohols with Ruthenium(II) Catalysis
Kan, Jian,Li, Chao-Jun,Li, Chen-Chen,Li, Jianbin,Lv, Leiyang,Qiu, Zihang
, p. 4544 - 4549 (2020)
Herein, we report a ruthenium-catalyzed redox-neutral α-alkylation of unsaturated alcohols based on a synergistic relay process involving olefin isomerization (chain walking) and umpolung hydrazone addition, which takes advantage of the interaction between the two rather inefficient individual reaction steps to enable an efficient overall process. This transformation shows the compatibility of hydrazone-type “carbanions” and active protons in a one-pot reaction, and at the same time achieves the first Grignard-type nucleophilic addition using olefinic alcohols as latent carbonyl groups, providing a higher yield of the corresponding secondary alcohol than the classical hydrazone addition to aldehydes does. A broad scope of unsaturated alcohols and hydrazones, including some complex structures, can be successfully employed in this reaction, which shows the versatility of this approach and its suitability as an alternative, efficient means for the generation of secondary and tertiary alcohols.
Metal-dependent reaction tuning with cyclopentylmetal reagents: Application to the asymmetric synthesis of (+)-α-conhydrine and (S)-2-cyclopentyl-2- phenylgrycolic acid
Roy, Siddharth,Sharma, Anubha,Mula, Soumyaditya,Chattopadhyay, Subrata
experimental part, p. 1713 - 1722 (2009/09/07)
The reaction profile of the cyclopentyl organometallic reagents with the aliphatic ketones can be tuned to reduction or addition by changing the metal atom. Cyclopentylmagnesium bromide (CPMB) reduces aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes and ketones to the corresponding alcohols without any C-C bond formation and shows good diastereoselectivity in the reduction of the substituted cyclic and polycyclic ketones as well as chiral α-oxygenated aliphatic ketones. However, in the presence of 10 mol% of ZnClα 2, the cyclopentylmagnesium halides follow a normal Grignard addition to the ketones to give tertiary alcohols with complete diastereoselectivity. The reductive as well as the addition protocols were used for the asymmetric synthesis of two medicinally important compounds, (+)-α-conhydrine and (S)-2-cyclopentyl-2-phenylglycolic acid.
