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Catalytic Enantioselective Birch–Heck Sequence for the Synthesis of Phenanthridinone Derivatives with an All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenter
Sexton, Mary,Malachowski, William P.,Yap, Glenn P. A.,Rachii, Diana,Feldman, Greg,Krasley, Andrew T.,Chen, Zhilin,Tran, My Anh,Wiley, Kalyn,Matei, Alexandra,Petersen, Samantha,Tien, Sabrina Tran
, p. 1154 - 1172 (2022/01/20)
Novel phenanthridinone analogues with an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter have been enantioselectively synthesized using the Birch–Heck sequence. Flat phenanthridinone structures have extensive bioactivity but consequently also suffer from poor therapeutic selectivity. The addition of a quaternary center to the phenanthridinone skeleton has the potential to generate more complex analogues with improved selectivity. Unfortunately, no general synthetic pathway to such derivatives exists. Herein we report a four-step process that transforms inexpensive benzoic acid into 22 different quaternary carbon-containing phenanthridinone analogues with a variety of substituents on all three rings: alkyl groups at the quaternary center; methyl, methoxymethyl, or para-methoxybenzyl on the amide nitrogen; and halogen and methyl substituents on the aryl ring. Good to very good enantioselectivity was demonstrated in the key intramolecular desymmetrizing Mizoroki–Heck reaction. Transformations of the Heck reaction products into molecules with potentially greater therapeutic relevance were also accomplished.
Alkyl radical generation using cyclohexa-1,4-diene-3-carboxylates and 2,5-dihydrofuran-2-carboxylates
Binmore, Gavin,Cardellini, Liberato,Walton, John C.
, p. 757 - 762 (2007/10/03)
3-Methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene-3-carboxylic acid and 2-methyl-2,5-dihydrofuran-2-carboxylic acid were prepared by Birch reduction and alkylation of benzoic and furoic acid respectively and converted to alkyl esters. Cyclohexadienyl and 2,5-dihydrofuranyl radicals were generated by hydrogen abstraction and characterised by EPR spectroscopy. The esters decomposed thermally in the presence of a radical initiator to generate alkyl radicals which could be trapped with moderate efficiency by halogen donors or alkenes. Loss of methyl to afford an alkyl benzoate was an important side reaction at higher temperatures. From the thermal reaction of hex-5-enyl 3-methylcyclohexa-1,4-diene-3-carboxylate the rate constant for hydrogen abstraction from the ester by hexenyl radicals was determined to be 0.82 × 105 dm3 mol-1 s-1 at 140°C.
