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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 142, Issue 23, Pages 10557-10566Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c04532
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21625204, 21971119, 21790332, 21532003]
- 111 project of the Ministry of Education of China [B06005]
- National Program for Special Support of Eminent Professionals
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Catalytic asymmetric reactions in which water is a substrate are rare. Enantioselective transition-metal-catalyzed insertion of carbenes into the O-H bond of water can be used to incorporate water into the stereogenic center, but the reported chiral catalysts give good results only when alpha-aryl-alpha-diazoesters are used as the carbene precursors. Herein we report the first highly enantioselective O-H bond insertion reactions between water and alpha-alkyl- and alpha-alkenyl-alpha-diazoesters as carbene precursors, with catalysis by a combination of achiral dirhodium complexes and chiral phosphoric acids or chiral phosphoramides. Participation of the phosphoric acids or phosphoramides in the carbene transfer reaction markedly suppressed competing side reactions, such as beta-H migration, carbene dimerization, and olefin isomerization, and thus ensured good yields of the desired products. Fine-tuning of the ester moiety facilitated enantiocontrol of the proton transfer reactions of the enol intermediates and resulted excellent enantioselectivity. This protocol represents an efficient new method for preparation of multifunctionalized chiral alpha-alkyl and alpha-alkenyl hydroxyl esters, which readily undergo various transformations and can thus be used for the synthesis of bioactive compounds. Mechanistic studies revealed that the phosphoric acids and phosphoramides promoted highly enantioselective [1,2]-and [1,3]-proton transfer reactions of the enol intermediates. Maximization of molecular orbital overlap in the transition states of the proton transfer reactions was the original driving force to involve the proton shuttle catalysts in this process.
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