Conjugate addition–enantioselective protonation reactions
- James P. Phelan and
- Jonathan A. Ellman
Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1203–1228, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.116
Graphical Abstract
Figure 1: Two general pathways for conjugate addition followed by enantioselective protonation.
Scheme 1: Tomioka’s enantioselective addition of arylthiols to α-substituted acrylates.
Scheme 2: Sibi’s enantioselective hydrogen atom transfer reactions.
Scheme 3: Mikami’s addition of perfluorobutyl radical to α-aminoacrylate 11.
Scheme 4: Reisman’s Friedel–Crafts conjugate addition–enantioselective protonation approach toward tryptophan...
Scheme 5: Pracejus’s enantioselective addition of benzylmercaptan to α-aminoacrylate 20.
Scheme 6: Kumar and Dike’s enantioselective addition of thiophenol to α-arylacrylates.
Scheme 7: Tan’s enantioselective addition of aromatic thiols to 2-phthalimidoacrylates.
Scheme 8: Glorius’ enantioselective Stetter reactions with α-substituted acrylates.
Scheme 9: Dixon’s enantioselective addition of thiols to α-substituted acrylates.
Figure 2: Chiral phosphorous ligands.
Scheme 10: Enantioselective addition of arylboronic acids to methyl α-acetamidoacrylate.
Scheme 11: Frost’s enantioselective additions to dimethyl itaconate.
Scheme 12: Darses and Genet’s addition of potassium organotrifluoroborates to α-aminoacrylates.
Scheme 13: Proposed mechanism for enantioselective additions to α-aminoacrylates.
Scheme 14: Sibi’s addition of arylboronic acids to α-methylaminoacrylates.
Scheme 15: Frost’s enantioselective synthesis of α,α-dibenzylacetates 64.
Scheme 16: Rovis’s hydroheteroarylation of α-substituted acrylates with benzoxazoles.
Scheme 17: Proposed mechanism for the hydroheteroarylation of α-substituted acrylates with benzoxazoles.
Scheme 18: Sodeoka’s enantioselective addition of amines to N-benzyloxycarbonyl acrylamides 75 and 77.
Scheme 19: Proposed catalytic cycle for Sodeoka’s enantioselective addition of amines.
Scheme 20: Sibi’s enantioselective Friedel–Crafts addition of pyrroles to imides 84.
Scheme 21: Kobayashi’s enantioselective addition of malonates to α-substituted N-acryloyloxazolidinones.
Scheme 22: Chen and Wu’s enantioselective addition of thiophenol to N-methacryloyl benzamide.
Scheme 23: Tan’s enantioselective addition of secondary phosphine oxides and thiols to N-arylitaconimides.
Scheme 24: Enantioselective addition of thiols to α-substituted N-acryloylamides.
Scheme 25: Kobayashi’s enantioselective addition of thiols to α,β-unsaturated ketones.
Scheme 26: Feng’s enantioselective addition of pyrazoles to α-substituted vinyl ketones.
Scheme 27: Luo and Cheng’s addition of indoles to vinyl ketones by enamine catalysis.
Scheme 28: Curtin–Hammett controlled enantioselective addition of indole.
Scheme 29: Luo and Cheng’s enantioselective additions to α-branched vinyl ketones.
Scheme 30: Lou’s reduction–conjugate addition–enantioselective protonation.
Scheme 31: Luo and Cheng’s primary amine-catalyzed addition of indoles to α-substituted acroleins.
Scheme 32: Luo and Cheng’s proposed mechanism and transition state.
Figure 3: Shibasaki’s chiral lanthanum and samarium tris(BINOL) catalysts.
Scheme 33: Shibasaki’s enantioselective addition of 4-tert-butyl(thiophenol) to α,β-unsaturated thioesters.
Scheme 34: Shibasaki’s application of chiral (S)-SmNa3tris(binaphthoxide) catalyst 144 to the total synthesis ...
Scheme 35: Shibasaki’s cyanation–enantioselective protonation of N-acylpyrroles.
Scheme 36: Tanaka’s hydroacylation of acrylamides with aliphatic aldehydes.
Scheme 37: Ellman’s enantioselective addition of α-substituted Meldrum’s acids to terminally unsubstituted nit...
Scheme 38: Ellman’s enantioselective addition of thioacids to α,β,β-trisubstituted nitroalkenes.
Scheme 39: Hayashi’s enantioselective hydroarylation of diphenylphosphinylallenes.
Scheme 40: Hayashi’s enantioselective hydroarylation of diphenylphosphinylallenes.
Figure 4: Togni’s chiral ferrocenyl tridentate nickel(II) and palladium(II) complexes.
Scheme 41: Togni’s enantioselective hydrophosphination of methacrylonitrile.
Scheme 42: Togni’s enantioselective hydroamination of methacrylonitrile.
