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Stereodivergent Nucleophilic Additions to Racemic β-Oxo Acid Derivatives: Fast Addition Outcompetes Stereoconvergence in the Archetypal Configurationally Unstable Electrophile
Crawford, Evan T.,De Jesús Cruz, Pedro,Johnson, Jeffrey S.,Liu, Shubin
, p. 16264 - 16273 (2021/10/21)
Additions of carbon nucleophiles to racemic α-stereogenic β-oxo acid derivatives that deliver enantiomerically enriched tertiary alcohols are valuable, but uncommon. This article describes stereodivergent Cu-catalyzed borylative cyclizations of racemic β-oxo acid derivatives bearing tethered pro-nucleophilic olefins to deliver highly functionalized cyclopentanols containing four contiguous stereogenic centers. The reported protocol is applicable to a range of β-oxo acid derivatives, and the diastereomeric products are readily isolable by typical chromatographic techniques. α-Stereogenic-β-keto esters are typically thought to have extreme or spontaneous configurational fragility, but mechanistic studies for this system reveal an unusual scenario wherein productive catalysis occurs on the same time scale as background substrate racemization and completely outcompetes on-cycle epimerization, even under the basic conditions of the reaction.
Photophysical and photochemical behavior of intramolecular-styrene-amine exciplexes
Lewis, Frederick D.,Dasharatha Reddy,Schneider, Siegfried,Ga, Michael
, p. 3498 - 3506 (2007/10/02)
The photophysical and photochemical behavior of a series of secondary and tertiary ω-(β-styryl)aminoalkanes with one to five methylenes separating the styryl and amino groups has been investigated and compared to the intermolecular reactions of 1-phenylpropene with secondary and tertiary amines. The tertiary styrylamines form fluorescent intramolecular exciplexes, but fail to undergo intramolecular addition reactions. Both the rate constant for exciplex formation and the stability of the exciplex are dependent upon the length of the polymethylene chain connecting the chromophores. The failure of the tertiary amine exciplexes to undergo intramolecular addition is attributed to an unfavorable exciplex geometry for α-C-H transfer to the styrene double bond. While the secondary styrylamines do not form fluorescent exciplexes, the dependence of the styrene singlet lifetime upon the polymethylene chain length is similar to that for the tertiary styrylamines. Intramolecular N-H addition to the styrene double bond results in the formation of two regioisomeric (α-phenyl and α-benzyl) cyclic amines of different ring size. The regioisomer of larger ring size is favored except in the case in which four methylenes separate the chromophores. The effects of polymethylene chain length, solvent polarity, temperature, and the bulk of the N-alkyl group upon product yields and ratios are discussed in terms of a mechanism involving singlet exciplex and biradical intermediates.
