Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Asymmetric Silylation of Biaryl Diols

Chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylboration of aldehydes.

The catalytic enantioselective allylation of aldehydes is a long-standing problem of considerable interest to the chemical community. We disclose a new high-yielding and highly enantioselective chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylboration of aldehydes. The reaction is shown to be highly general, with a broad substrate scope that covers aryl, heteroaryl, alpha,beta-unsaturated, and aliphatic ald...

Copper complex catalyzed asymmetric monosulfonylation of meso-vic-diols

Asymmetric rearrangement of racemic epoxides catalyzed by chiral Brønsted acids.

This paper describes a chiral Brønsted acid catalyzed asymmetric 1,2-rearrangement of racemic epoxides via a hydrogen-shift process for the synthesis of chiral aldehydes, and, followed by a reduction, a variety of optically active alcohols can be furnished in moderate yields with up to 50% ee. Especially, a facile one-pot synthesis of chiral alcohols directly from simple alkenes by a sequential...

Chiral Brønsted Acid‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of N‐Aryl‐cis‐aziridine Carboxylate Esters

We report a multi-component asymmetric Brønsted acid-catalyzed aza-Darzens reaction which is not limited to specific aromatic or heterocyclic aldehydes. Incorporating alkyl diazoacetates and, important for high ee's, ortho-tert-butoxyaniline our optimized reaction (i.e. solvent, temperature and catalyst study) affords excellent yields (61-98 %) and mostly >90 % optically active cis-aziridines. ...

Isotope effects and mechanism of the asymmetric BOROX Brønsted acid catalyzed aziridination reaction.

The mechanism of the chiral VANOL-BOROX Brønsted acid catalyzed aziridination reaction of imines and ethyldiazoacetate has been studied using a combination of experimental kinetic isotope effects and theoretical calculations. A stepwise mechanism where reversible formation of a diazonium ion intermediate precedes rate-limiting ring closure to form the cis-aziridine is implicated. A revised mode...