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Kinetic Resolution by Lithiation: Highly Enantioselective Synthesis of Substituted Dihydrobenzoxazines and Tetrahydroquinoxalines
El-Tunsi, Ashraf,Carter, Nicholas,Yeo, Song-Hee,Priest, Joshua D.,Choi, Anthony,Kobras, Carolin M.,Ndlovu, Soneni,Proietti Silvestri, Ilaria,Fenton, Andrew K.,Coldham, Iain
, p. 355 - 368 (2021/11/13)
Kinetic resolution provided a highly enantioselective method to access a range of 3-aryl-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzoxazines using n-butyllithium and the chiral ligand sparteine. The enantioenrichment remained high on removing the tert-butoxycarbonyl (Boc) protecting group. The intermediate organolithium undergoes ring opening to an enamine. The kinetic resolution was extended to give enantiomerically enriched substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoxalines and was applied to the synthesis of an analogue of the antibiotic levofloxacin that was screened for its activity against the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.