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Total Synthesis of Strychnine
Lee, Geun Seok,Namkoong, Gil,Park, Jisook,Chen, David Y.-K.
, p. 16189 - 16193 (2017)
The total synthesis of the flagship Strychnos indole alkaloid, strychnine, has been accomplished. The developed synthetic sequence features a novel vinylogous 1,4-addition, a challenging iodinium salt mediated silyl enol ether arylation, a palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction, and a streamlined late-stage conversion to strychnine. Furthermore, an application of asymmetric counterion-directed catalysis (ACDC) in the context of target-oriented organic synthesis has been rendered access to an optically active material. The synthetic sequence described herein represents the most concise entry to optically active strychnine to date.
Bifunctional water activation for catalytic hydration of organonitriles
Daw, Prosenjit,Sinha, Arup,Rahaman, S. M. Wahidur,Dinda, Shrabani,Bera, Jitendra K.
experimental part, p. 3790 - 3797 (2012/06/18)
Treatment of [Rh(COD)(μ-Cl)]2 with excess tBuOK and subsequent addition of 2 equiv of PIN?HBr in THF afforded [Rh(COD)(κC2-PIN)Br] (1) (PIN = 1-isopropyl-3-(5,7-dimethyl-1, 8-naphthyrid-2-yl)imidazol-2-ylidene, COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene). The X-ray structure of 1 confirms ligand coordination to "Rh(COD)Br" through the carbene carbon featuring an unbound naphthyridine. Compound 1 is shown to be an excellent catalyst for the hydration of a wide variety of organonitriles at ambient temperature, providing the corresponding organoamides. In general, smaller substrates gave higher yields compared with sterically bulky nitriles. A turnover frequency of 20 000 h-1 was achieved for the acrylonitrile. A similar Rh(I) catalyst without the naphthyridine appendage turned out to be inactive. DFT studies are undertaken to gain insight on the hydration mechanism. A 1:1 catalyst-water adduct was identified, which indicates that the naphthyridine group steers the catalytically relevant water molecule to the active metal site via double hydrogen-bonding interactions, providing significant entropic advantage to the hydration process. The calculated transition state (TS) reveals multicomponent cooperativity involving proton movement from the water to the naphthyridine nitrogen and a complementary interaction between the hydroxide and the nitrile carbon. Bifunctional water activation and cooperative proton migration are recognized as the key steps in the catalytic cycle.
FeIII-catalyzed synthesis of primary amides from aldehydes
Gowda, Ravikumar R.,Chakraborty, Debashis
supporting information; experimental part, p. 2226 - 2229 (2011/06/17)
A direct synthetic route for the transformation of aldehydes into primary amides in the presence of catalytic amounts of FeCl3 in water is described. A direct synthetic route for the transformation of aldehydes into primary amides in the presence of catalytic amounts of FeCl3 in water is described. Copyright
