Rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular reductive aldol-type cyclization: Application for the synthesis of a chiral necic acid lactone

• Motoyuki Isoda,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Kenta Kameda,
• Kana Wakabayashi,
• Ryota Sato,
• Hideki Minami,
• Yukiko Karuo,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Kentaro Kawai and
• Masaaki Omote

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.176

• . Mechanistic investigation of the intramolecular cyclization The reaction mechanism of the intramolecular cyclization can only be speculative at this stage. We have already reported the generation of a rhodium hydride (Rh–H) complex from RhCl(PPh3)3 and Et2Zn, in which the reaction with tert-butyl acrylate

Rh-Catalyzed reductive Mannich-type reaction and its application towards the synthesis of (±)-ezetimibe

• Motoyuki Isoda,
• Kazuyuki Sato,
• Yurika Kunugi,
• Satsuki Tokonishi,
• Atsushi Tarui,
• Masaaki Omote,
• Hideki Minami and
• Akira Ando

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1608–1615, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.157

• -1 Hirokoshingai, Kure, Hiroshima 737-0112, Japan 10.3762/bjoc.12.157 Abstract An effective synthesis for syn-β-lactams was achieved using a Rh-catalyzed reductive Mannich-type reaction. A rhodium–hydride complex (Rh–H) derived from diethylzinc (Et2Zn) and a Rh catalyst was used for the 1,4

• Mannich-type reaction; rhodium–hydride; zinc enolate; Introduction The Mannich reaction is an important and classical C–C bond-forming reaction between an enolizable carbonyl compound and an imine to give the corresponding β-aminocarbonyl compound. For example, Shibasaki and his colleague reported the

• yield was 46%. In some of our previous publications [22][23][36], we proposed a reaction mechanism as shown in Figure 1. In the initial step, the Rh catalyst reacted with Et2Zn to give a rhodium–hydride complex 6 via the elimination of ethylene from the rhodium–ethyl complex 5. The formation of rhodium

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

• N-acylimine 59. Addition of the rhodium-hydride across the imine is then the enantiodetermining step, followed by protodemetalation to generate the product 54. Inspired by previous reports on the synthesis of α-amino esters using rhodium(I) catalysis, Sibi and co-workers investigated the

• rhodium catalyst binding to the benzoxazole nitrogen 68. Deuterium labeling studies were performed on the system and based on their results a mechanism was proposed in which the stereodetermining step is a rhodium-hydride transfer instead of protonation of an oxo-π-allylrhodium species (Scheme 17

An integrated photocatalytic/enzymatic system for the reduction of CO₂ to methanol in bioglycerol–water

• Michele Aresta,
• Angela Dibenedetto,
• Tomasz Baran,
• Antonella Angelini,
• Przemysław Łabuz and
• Wojciech Macyk

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 2556–2565, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.267

• –vis absorption spectrum recorded after the reaction shows the appearance of a band at 521 nm that is characteristic of the formation of the rhodium hydride. This was confirmed by taking the spectrum of the isolated complex. The addition of NAD+ resulted in NADH formation (a band at around 344 nm) in

Synthesis of cross-conjugated trienes by rhodium-catalyzed dimerization of monosubstituted allenes

• Tomoya Miura,
• Tsuneaki Biyajima,
• Takeharu Toyoshima and
• Masahiro Murakami

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 578–581, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.67

• -head manner to form the five-membered rhodacyclic intermediate A [22][23][24][25], which is in equilibrium with another rhodacyclic intermediate B via σ–π–σ isomerization. Then, β-hydride elimination takes place with B to form rhodium hydride C stereoselectively. Finally, reductive elimination from C