| Literature DB >> 28604006 |
Jean-Nicolas Desrosiers1, Jialin Wen2, Sergei Tcyrulnikov3, Soumik Biswas1, Bo Qu1, Liana Hie, Dmitry Kurouski1, Ling Wu1, Nelu Grinberg1, Nizar Haddad1, Carl A Busacca1, Nathan K Yee1, Jinhua J Song1, Neil K Garg4, Xumu Zhang2, Marisa C Kozlowski3, Chris H Senanayake1.
Abstract
The development of enantioselective carbon-carbon bond couplings catalyzed by nonprecious metals is highly desirable in terms of cost efficiency and sustainability. The first nickel-catalyzed enantioselective Mizoroki-Heck coupling is reported. This transformation is accomplished via mild reaction conditions, leveraging on QuinoxP* as a chiral ligand to afford oxindoles containing quaternary stereocenters. Good reactivity and selectivity are observed in the presence of various functional groups. Computational studies suggest that the oxidative addition assembles an atropisomeric intermediate responsible for the facial selectivity of the insertion step.Entities:
Year: 2017 PMID: 28604006 PMCID: PMC5634709 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01054
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005