Lithium Enolates in the Enantioselective Construction of Tetrasubstituted Carbon Centers with Chiral Lithium Amides as Noncovalent Stereodirecting Auxiliaries

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• 作者：Kai Yu ; Ping Lu ; Jeffrey J. Jackson ; Thuy-Ai D. Nguyen ; Joseph Alvarado ; Craig E. Stivala ; Yun Ma ; Kyle A. Mack ; Trevor W. HaytonDavid B. Collum ; Armen Zakarian
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 11, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：139
• 期：1
• 页码：527-533
• 全文大小：536K
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Lithium enolates derived from carboxylic acids are ubiquitous intermediates in organic synthesis. Asymmetric transformations with these intermediates, a central goal of organic synthesis, are typically carried out with covalently attached chiral auxiliaries. An alternative approach is to utilize chiral reagents that form discrete, well-defined aggregates with lithium enolates, providing a chiral environment conducive of asymmetric bond formation. These reagents effectively act as noncovalent, or traceless, chiral auxiliaries. Lithium amides are an obvious choice for such reagents as they are known to form mixed aggregates with lithium enolates. We demonstrate here that mixed aggregates can effect highly enantioselective transformations of lithium enolates in several classes of reactions, most notably in transformations forming tetrasubstituted and quaternary carbon centers. Easy recovery of the chiral reagent by aqueous extraction is another practical advantage of this one-step protocol. Crystallographic, spectroscopic, and computational studies of the central reactive aggregate, which provide insight into the origins of selectivity, are also reported.