Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of 3,3-difluoro-3H-indoles

• Yumei Wang,
• Guangzhu Wang,
• Yanping Zhu and
• Kaiwu Dong

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 205–211, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.20

• relatively strict reaction conditions (up to 150 bar H2). In 2022, Liu’s group reported an asymmetric hydrogenation of 3H-indoles catalyzed by a chiral Mn complex, which showed good yield and enantioselectivity [25]. In addition to metal catalysis for the enantioselective reduction, asymmetric

Group 13 exchange and transborylation in catalysis

• Dominic R. Willcox and
• Stephen P. Thomas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 325–348, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.28

• a B‒O/B‒H transborylation in catalysis was the catalytic Midland reduction of propargylic ketones developed by Thomas to give enantioenriched propargylic alcohols (Scheme 10) [74]. The reaction was proposed to occur by enantioselective reduction of the propargylic ketone 42 by myrtanyl borane 43 to

• reduction of CO2 with Me2S·BH3 as the terminal reductant [101]. Gallium catalysis Pioneering studies by Woodward reported the enantioselective reduction of ketones using HBcat and a mixture of MTBH2/LiGaH4 as the catalyst, achieving high yields (up to 96%) and enantioselectivities (up to 93% ee) (Scheme 24a

• ) [111]. The reaction was proposed to proceed through the enantioselective reduction of the ketone 95 by gallium hydride 96, followed by Ga‒O/B‒H exchange with HBcat to give an enantioenriched alkoxy catechol borane 98, affording the alcohol after workup (Scheme 24a). The mechanism was later explored in

Recent developments in enantioselective photocatalysis

• Callum Prentice,
• James Morrisson,
• Andrew D. Smith and
• Eli Zysman-Colman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 2363–2441, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.197

• protonation furnished the desired enantioenriched α-fluoroketones 225 in excellent yields and enantioselectivities (33 examples, up to >99:1 er). Jiang et al. used a related system for the enantioselective reduction of 1,2-diketones 227 (Scheme 35a) [96]. In this case the catalyst 228 is proposed to form

A review of asymmetric synthetic organic electrochemistry and electrocatalysis: concepts, applications, recent developments and future directions

• Munmun Ghosh,
• Valmik S. Shinde and
• Magnus Rueping

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2710–2746, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.264

• cinchonidine alkaloid-induced asymmetric electroreduction of acetophenone. Asymmetric electroreduction of 4- and 2-acetylpyridines at a mercury cathode in the presence of a catalytic amount of strychnine. Enantioselective reduction of 4-methylcoumarin in the presence of catalytic yohimbine. Cinchonine-induced

• using a bimetallic Pt@Cu cathode. Enantioselective reduction of ketones at mercury cathode using N,N'-dimethylquininium tetrafluoroborate as chiral inductor. Asymmetric synthesis of an amino acid using an electrode modified with amino acid oxidase and electron mediator. Asymmetric oxidation of p-tolyl

Synthesis of acremines A, B and F and studies on the bisacremines

• Nils Winter and
• Dirk Trauner

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2271–2276, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.219

• modestly enantioselective oxidation and a highly enantioselective reduction with kinetic resolution to access the acremine framework. The route proved to be scalable and delivered 300 mg of the natural product. Acremine F could further be converted into acremines A (1) and B (2) by a selective oxidation

Synthesis of nonracemic hydroxyglutamic acids

• Dorota G. Piotrowska,
• Iwona E. Głowacka,
• Andrzej E. Wróblewski and
• Liwia Lubowiecka

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 236–255, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.22

• (2S,3R,4S)-4 and (2R,3R,4S)-4. To secure the (3R,4R) and (3S,4S) configurations in 3,4-hydroxyglutamic acids enantioselective reduction of the carbonyl group of the cyclic imide (3R*,4S*)-110 prepared from meso-tartaric acid [108] needs to be elaborated (Scheme 27) [109]. Low temperature reduction of

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

• the enantioselective reduction of α-substituted conjugate addition acceptors, including catalytic hydrogenation, multiple reviews have already appeared on this topic, and therefore asymmetric catalytic reduction will not be covered here [11][12][13]. Conjugate addition followed by terminal

The aminoindanol core as a key scaffold in bifunctional organocatalysts

• Isaac G. Sonsona,
• Eugenia Marqués-López and
• Raquel P. Herrera

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 505–523, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.50

• trifluoroethylamine moiety [3][4][5]. However, it is in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis [6][7][8] where the aminoindanol core has gained more importance, being a recurrent structural motif in several organocatalytic species. Some examples are (a) the enantioselective reduction of ketones through the in situ

Highly stable and reusable immobilized formate dehydrogenases: Promising biocatalysts for in situ regeneration of NADH

• Barış Binay,
• Dilek Alagöz,
• Deniz Yildirim,
• Ayhan Çelik and
• S. Seyhan Tükel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 271–277, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.29

• a great potential in the enantioselective reduction of ketones [1][2] and/or carbon–carbon double bonds [3][4] to produce optically active compounds. However, most dehydrogenases use an expensive cofactor such as NAD(H) or NADP(H) [5]. Therefore, the regeneration of the cofactor is required to

The enantioselective synthesis of (S)-(+)-mianserin and (S)-(+)-epinastine

• Piotr Roszkowski,
• Jan. K. Maurin and
• Zbigniew Czarnocki

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1509–1513, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.164

• : chiral diamines; enantioselective reduction; epinastine; mianserin; ruthenium complexes; Introduction Mianserin (1) is a tetracyclic compound widely used as a drug in the treatment of depression. Despite the fact that the (S)-(+)-enantiomer of mianserin is more potent than the (R)-antipode in

• structurally similar aptazepine [8], we applied this protocol to the preparation of (S)-mianserin. The key step in the proposed synthetic pathway is the enantioselective reduction of an endocyclic imine that led to the chiral amine. Interestingly, starting from this intermediate we obtained mianserin and also

Bidirectional cross metathesis and ring-closing metathesis/ring opening of a C₂-symmetric building block: a strategy for the synthesis of decanolide natural products

• Bernd Schmidt and
• Oliver Kunz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2544–2555, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.289

• discouraging results we did not pursue enantioselective reduction methods further to establish the required 9R-configuration, but considered a resolution approach. Ketone 14 was first reduced with NaBH4 to the expected diastereomeric mixture of alcohols 18, which were then subjected to the conditions of the

Enantioselective reduction of ketoimines promoted by easily available (S)-proline derivatives

• Martina Bonsignore,
• Maurizio Benaglia,
• Laura Raimondi,
• Manuel Orlandi and
• Giuseppe Celentano

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 633–640, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.71

• shown to promote the enantioselective reduction of different substrates in good chemical yields. In the HSiCl3 addition to the model substrate N-phenylacetophenone imine, the organocatalyst of choice led to the formation of the corresponding amine with good stereoselectivity, up to 75% ee. Theoretical

• the hydroxy group may act as a competitive site of coordination for trichlorosilane. Driven by these results, we focused on a more in-depth study of the most promising system. Catalysts 5 and 6 were selected to investigate the substrate scope in the enantioselective reduction of differently

• substituted imines (Table 3). Catalyst 5 showed a good chemical activity, promoting the enantioselective reduction in yields up to 88%, except when a very bulky protecting group was used (Table 3, entry 4). In the reaction of both N-Ph and N-PMP imines derived from acetophenone a discrete level of

A practical two-step procedure for the preparation of enantiopure pyridines: Multicomponent reactions of alkoxyallenes, nitriles and carboxylic acids followed by a cyclocondensation reaction

• Christian Eidamshaus,
• Roopender Kumar,
• Mrinal K. Bera and
• Hans-Ulrich Reissig

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 962–975, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.108

• : Enantioselective reduction of pyridine carbonyl compounds, the addition of lithiated pyridine derivatives to chiral ketones or the resolution of racemates being the most common approaches. The preparation of chiral pyridine derivatives starting from simple enantiopure precursors is less common [27][28]. Recently

Continuous flow enantioselective arylation of aldehydes with ArZnEt using triarylboroxins as the ultimate source of aryl groups

• Julien Rolland,
• Xacobe C. Cambeiro,
• Carles Rodríguez-Escrich and
• Miquel A. Pericàs

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 56, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.56

• the apparent simplicity of the structures, their asymmetric synthesis is not trivial. For instance, access to these structures through enantioselective reduction of the corresponding ketones can become troublesome when both aryl groups are similar in their electronic and steric properties [2][3][4

Diastereoselective and enantioselective reduction of tetralin- 1,4-dione

• E. Peter Kündig and
• Alvaro Enriquez-Garcia

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 37, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.37

• . Tautomerization of 1,4-dihydroxynaphthalene. Alternative routes of access to tetralin-1,4-dione. Proposed origin of diastereomeric preference in the reduction of 2. Enantioselective reduction of 2. Mono-reduction of 2. Enantioselective mono-reduction of 2. Diastereoselective reduction of tetralin-1,4-dione (2

Synthesis of (–)-Indolizidine 167B based on domino hydroformylation/cyclization reactions

• Giuditta Guazzelli,
• Raffaello Lazzaroni and
• Roberta Settambolo

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 2, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-2

• -propyl group in the required position, undergoes sequential intramolecular cyclization/dehydration/hydrogenation in situ to give 5-n-propyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroindolizine (4), via 5-n-propyl-5,6-dihydroindolizine (3) having the same optical purity as the starting olefin; a successive enantioselective

• reduction gives the target compound (ee 92%) (Scheme 1). The rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins is an important industrial tool for the production of aldehydes [10][11]. During the last few years, the oxo process has been employed also in the synthesis of fine chemicals especially integrated in

Large- scale ruthenium- and enzyme- catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution of (rac)-1-phenylethanol

• Krisztián Bogár,
• Belén Martín-Matute and
• Jan-E. Bäckvall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2007, 3, No. 50, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-3-50

• aldehydes, [17][18] and asymmetric aldol reactions. [19][20][21][22][23] Biocatalysts have also been successfully employed in the enantioselective reduction of ketones.[24] The enzymatic resolution of racemic alcohols is a convenient alternative for preparing enantiomerically pure alcohols,[1][25][26][27