A
method
for
generating
alkynylmagnesium
chlorides
from
1-chlorovinyl
p-tolyl
sulfoxides
and
an
isopropylmagnesium
chloride-lithium
chloride
complex
(turbo
Grignard
reagent)
has
been
developed.
The
consists
of
a
sulfoxide/magnesium
exchange
reaction
turbo
reagent,
FritschButtenbergWiechell
rearrangement
the
resulting
magnesium
alkylidene
carbenoids,
deprotonation
terminal
alkynes
with
reagent.
are
reacted
variety
electrophiles
to
generate
internal
alkynes.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
146(13), P. 9241 - 9251
Published: March 19, 2024
Much
attention
has
been
focused
on
the
catalytic
asymmetric
creation
of
single
chiral
centers
or
two
adjacent
stereocenters.
However,
construction
nonadjacent
stereocenters
is
significant
importance
but
challenging
because
lack
remote
induction
models.
Herein,
based
a
C═C
bond
relay
strategy,
we
report
synergistic
Pd/Cu-catalyzed
1,5-double
model.
All
four
stereoisomers
target
products
bearing
1,5-nonadjacent
involving
both
allenyl
axial
and
central
chirality
could
be
obtained
divergently
by
simply
changing
combination
catalysts
with
different
configurations.
Control
experiments
DFT
calculations
reveal
novel
mechanism
1,5-oxidative
addition,
contra-thermodynamic
η3-allyl
palladium
shift,
conjugate
nucleophilic
substitution,
which
play
crucial
roles
in
control
reactivity,
regio-,
enantio-,
diastereoselectivity.
It
expected
that
this
strategy
may
provide
general
protocol
for
synthesis
structural
motifs
distant
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
62(31)
Published: June 1, 2023
The
skeletons
of
chiral
tetrasubstituted
allenes
bearing
a
vicinal
all-carbon
quaternary
stereocenter
are
importance
but
still
challenging
to
synthesize.
Herein,
we
report
enantio-
and
diastereoselective
γ-additions
1-alkynyl
ketimines
with
dual-copper-catalysis
under
mild
conditions,
affording
α-amino
allenoates
in
high
yields
(up
99
%
yield)
excellent
enantioselectivities
ee)
diastereoselectivities
>20
:
1
dr).
Importantly,
the
stereodivergent
synthesis
products
was
realized
by
asymmetric
γ-addition
reaction
Grignard
reagent
promoted
epimerization.
Moreover,
dual-copper-catalyzed
reactions
were
smoothly
applied
gram-scale
adopted
introduce
allenyl
moieties
into
bioactive
molecules.
Mechanistic
experiments
density
functional
theory
(DFT)
calculations
demonstrated
that
catalyzed
double
copper
catalysts.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
14(1)
Published: May 22, 2023
We
herein
describe
an
asymmetric
α-allylic
allenylation
of
β-ketocarbonyls
and
aldehydes
with
1,3-enynes.
A
synergistic
chiral
primary
amine/Pd
catalyst
was
identified
to
facilitate
the
utilization
1,3-enynes
as
atom-economic
achiral
allene
precursors.
The
catalysis
enables
construction
all-carbon
quaternary
centers-tethered
allenes
bearing
non-adjacent
1,3-axial
central
stereogenic
centers
in
high
level
diastereo-
enantio-selectivity.
By
switching
configurations
ligands
aminocatalysts,
diastereodivergence
can
be
achieved
any
four
diastereoisomers
accessed
enantio-
selectivity.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(13), P. 9940 - 9954
Published: June 19, 2024
Metal-catalyzed
allenylic
substitution
reactions
where
allenes
serve
as
electrophilic
precursors
have
been
recognized
a
rapid
way
for
novel
allene
construction.
On
the
contrary,
chemistry
in
which
act
nucleophiles
has
far
less
investigated,
especially
powerful
platform
such
metal-catalyzed
allylic
alkylation
reactions.
We
herein
describe
two
unprecedented
palladium-catalyzed
of
an
nucleophile.
In
first
reaction,
using
vinyloxazolidinones
allyl
precursor,
asymmetric
allylation
trisubstituted
allenones
worked
well
to
prepare
array
axially
chiral
tetrasubstituted
allenes.
Mechanistic
studies
and
density
functional
theory
(DFT)
calculations
indicated
that
weak
hydrogen-bonding
interaction
between
acidic
C(sp2)–H
allenone
nitrogen
anion
π-azaallyl-Pd
species
is
key
success
stereocontrol.
This
reaction
revealed
intriguing
reactivity
nucleophilic
time.
second
with
use
allenylethylene
carbonates
π-oxyallyl-Pd
precursors,
presented
unique
under
different
conditions
provide
divergent
synthetic
access
(E)-
(Z)-allenyl
diene
products.
Interestingly,
subsequent
sequential
intramolecular
cyclization/isomerization
(Z)-product
delivered
dihydrooxepine
derivatives
[5
+
2]
annulation
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
144(46), P. 21022 - 21029
Published: Nov. 10, 2022
The
general
enantioselective
catalytic
synthesis
of
axially
chiral
1,3-disubstituted
allenes
from
readily
available
racemic
propargylic
alcohol
derivatives
remains
a
long-standing
challenge
in
organic
synthesis.
Here
we
report
an
efficient
nickel-catalyzed
asymmetric
substitution
reaction/Myers
rearrangement
carbonates
that
furnishes
series
enantioenriched
using
newly
designed
N-sulfonylhydrazone
reagents
as
diazo
surrogates.
This
reaction
proved
to
be
remarkably
with
regard
substrate
scope,
affording
diverse
range
allenic
compounds
good
yields
excellent
enantioselectivities.
Additionally,
applications
this
powerful
strategy
for
the
methyl
(S)-8-hydroxyocta-5,6-dienoate,
(S)-laballenic
acid,
(S)-phlomic
and
(S)-Δ9,10-pentacosadiene
are
described,
further
highlighting
broad
potential
these
new
discovery
novel
reactions.
Journal of the American Chemical Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
145(18), P. 10001 - 10006
Published: April 26, 2023
We
have
developed
a
new
three-component
catalytic
coupling
reaction
of
alkynyl
boronates,
diazomethanes,
and
aliphatic/aromatic
ketones
in
the
presence
BINOL
derivatives.
The
proceeds
with
remarkably
high
enantio-
diastereoselectivity
(up
to
three
contiguous
stereocenters)
affording
tertiary
CF3-allenols
single
operational
step.
under
mild,
neutral,
metal-free
conditions,
which
leads
level
functional
group
tolerance.
Journal of Cheminformatics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Nov. 2, 2023
With
the
continuous
development
of
artificial
intelligence
technology,
more
and
computational
models
for
generating
new
molecules
are
being
developed.
However,
we
often
confronted
with
question
whether
these
compounds
easy
or
difficult
to
synthesize,
which
refers
synthetic
accessibility
compounds.
In
this
study,
a
deep
learning
based
model
called
DeepSA,
was
proposed
predict
synthesis
compounds,
provides
useful
tool
choose
molecules.
DeepSA
is
chemical
language
that
developed
by
training
on
dataset
3,593,053
using
various
natural
processing
(NLP)
algorithms,
offering
advantages
over
state-of-the-art
methods
having
much
higher
area
under
receiver
operating
characteristic
curve
(AUROC),
i.e.,
89.6%,
in
discriminating
those
synthesize.
This
helps
users
select
less
expensive
synthesis,
reducing
time
cost
required
drug
discovery
development.
Interestingly,
comparison
Graph
Attention-based
method
shows
SMILES
alone
can
also
efficiently
visualize
extract
compound's
informative
features.
available
online
below
web
server
(
https://bailab.siais.shanghaitech.edu.cn/services/deepsa/
)
our
group,
code
at
https://github.com/Shihang-Wang-58/DeepSA
.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 7, 2025
Controlling
the
reaction
selectivity
to
achieve
a
precision
synthesis
is
constant
concern
for
chemists.
Here,
we
report
palladium-catalyzed
deaminative
coupling
of
propargylamines
with
arylboronic
acids
generate
allene
skeletons.
Importantly,
this
approach
allows
regioselective
γ-arylation
unactivated
propargyl
tertiary
amines
access
various
allenes
in
absence
amino-activating
reagents.
We
present
wide
range
and
boronic
demonstrate
synthetic
application
target
products
construct
valuable
compounds.