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Chemoselective Catalytic α-Oxidation of Carboxylic Acids: Iron/Alkali Metal Cooperative Redox Active Catalysis
Tanaka, Tsukushi,Yazaki, Ryo,Ohshima, Takashi
, p. 4517 - 4524 (2020/03/05)
We developed a chemoselective catalytic activation of carboxylic acid for a 1e- radical process. α-Oxidation of a variety of carboxylic acids, which preferentially undergo undesired decarboxylation under radical conditions, proceeded efficiently under the optimized conditions. Chemoselective enolization of carboxylic acid was also achieved even in the presence of more acidic carbonyls. Extensive mechanistic studies revealed that the cooperative actions of iron species and alkali metal ions derived from 4 ? molecular sieves substantially facilitated the enolization. For the first time, catalytic enolization of unprotected carboxylic acid was achieved without external addition of stoichiometric amounts of Br?nsted base. The formed redox-active heterobimetallic enediolate efficiently coupled with free radical TEMPO, providing synthetically useful α-hydroxy and keto acid derivatives.
Chemoselective esterification of α-hydroxyacids catalyzed by salicylaldehyde through induced intramolecularity
Weng, Shiue-Shien,Li, Hsin-Chun,Yang, Teng-Mao
, p. 1976 - 1986 (2013/03/13)
A new, direct and chemoselective esterification of α-hydroxyacids was developed using a reversible covalent-binding strategy. By taking advantage of acetal chemistry, simple aldehydes can be used to efficiently catalyze the esterification of α-hydroxy carboxylic acids in the presence of β-hydroxyacid moieties or other carboxylic acids in amounts equal to or in excess of the alcohols. A diverse array of α-aryl, α-alkyl, α-heteroaryl, and functionalized α-hydroxyacids were smoothly esterified with 1° and 2° alcohols catalyzed by 10 mol% inexpensive and commercially available salicylaldehyde, furnishing the resultant esterification products in 83-95% yields after a simple basic aqueous workup to remove the unreacted hydroxyacids. In addition, the salicylaldehyde can be recovered through vacuum distillation or silica gel purification, thereby meeting the standards of green chemistry. A mechanistic study proved that the formation of covalent adduct III during our proposed catalytic cycle (Scheme 1A) is responsible for the real catalysis.
