Isothiourea-mediated asymmetric functionalization of 3-alkenoic acids

Isothiourea HBTM-2.1 promotes the catalytic asymmetric alpha-functionalization of 3-alkenoic acids through formal [2 + 2] cycloadditions with N-tosyl aldimines and formal [4 + 2] cycloadditions with either 4-aryltrifluoromethyl enones or N-aryl-N-aroyl diazenes, providing useful synthetic building blocks in good yield and with excellent enantiocontrol (up to >99% ee). Stereodefined products are amenable to further synthetic elaboration through manipulation of the olefinic functionality.

Citation

Morrill , L C , Smith , S M , Slawin , A M Z & Smith , A D 2014 , ' Isothiourea-mediated asymmetric functionalization of 3-alkenoic acids ' , The Journal of Organic Chemistry , vol. 79 , no. 4 , pp. 1640-1655 . https://doi.org/10.1021/jo402591v

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The Journal of Organic Chemistry

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Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1021/jo402591v

ISSN

0022-3263

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Journal article

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This work is supported by funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (L.C.M.) and the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 279850.

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University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6073