Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 24, 2023
Abstract
Despite
the
remarkable
advances
in
research
field
of
asymmetric
catalytic
oxidation
reactions
via
hypervalent
iodines
with
simple
procedures,
high
level
efficiency
and
stereoselectivity
over
past
few
decades,
development
their
highly
scalable,
environmentally
benign,
sustainable
protocols
under
greener
organocatalysis
paradigm
for
further
industrial
translations
remains
a
long-standing
synthetic
organic
chemistry
process
engineering
challenge.
Herein,
we
design
synthesize
new
library
conformationally
flexible
recyclable
aryl
iodine
catalysts
by
utilization
(i)
waste
(chloramphenicol
base)
as
scaffold
(ii)
inexpensive
amino
acid
residue
(threonine)
chiral
source.
Our
iodine(III)
bearing
H-bond
donors
tunable
pocket
have
been
successfully
applied
diverse
robust
oxidative
transformations,
e.g.,
dearomatization,
spirolactonization,
direct
C(sp
2
)−H/C(sp
3
)−H
cross-coupling,
fluoridation.
processes
feature
column-isolation-free
approach,
easy-handling
operation,
upscaling
synthesis,
being
facilely
recycled
particular
precipitation.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(12), P. 9244 - 9253
Published: June 3, 2024
Catalytic
asymmetric
dearomatization
(CADA)
is
a
powerful
tool
for
the
rapid
construction
of
complex
chiral
three-dimensional
cyclic
molecules
featuring
quaternary
carbon
centers
from
readily
available
arenes.
However,
ubiquitous
nonfunctionalized
1-naphthols
to
afford
remains
challenging
and
undeveloped.
This
study
reports
dearomative
[4
+
1]
spiroannulation
via
copper
catalysis.
reaction
features
highly
chemo-,
regio-,
stereoselective
nucleophilic
addition
intramolecular
annulation
cascade
reactive
π-extended
copper-allenylidene,
thus
enabling
practical
synthesis
range
valuable
spirocyclic
enones
bearing
stereocenter
with
high
efficiency.
Furthermore,
this
protocol
applicable
phenols.
Control
experiments
supported
substitution-annulation
mechanism
by
excluding
process
involving
1,3-sigmatropic
shift.
Preliminary
biological
activity
studies
indicated
that
synthesized
hold
significant
promise
as
anticancer
agents
inducing
tumor
cell
apoptosis.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(12), P. 9254 - 9264
Published: June 3, 2024
Catalytic
asymmetric
dearomatization
reactions
of
α-unsubstituted
β-naphthols
are
very
challenging
due
to
the
high
energy
barrier
resulting
from
loss
aromaticity.
Herein,
we
describe
an
example
enantioselective
catalytic
dearomative
spiroannulation
with
yne-allylic
esters.
The
success
this
reaction
relied
on
copper-catalyzed
remote
strategy
using
esters
as
bis-electrophilic
reagents.
This
transformation
features
mild
conditions,
broad
functional
group
tolerance,
and
extensive
substrate
scope,
thereby
facilitating
efficient
construction
array
enantioenriched
naphthalene-2-one
spiroindolenine
derivatives.
Experimental
studies
density
theory
calculations
establish
pathway
origin
stereoselectivity.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Feb. 12, 2025
The
first
metal-
and
base-free
construction
of
diastereomeric
hydrobenzofurans
hydronaphthofurans,
which
were
capable
further
transformations
to
achieve
natural
product
frameworks,
was
achieved
by
the
intramolecular
oxidized
dearomatization
phenol
or
naphthol
derivatives
via
promotion
iodine
reagents.
Enantioselective
products
obtained
through
chiral
substrates
catalysts.
This
step-economical
protocol
built
multiple
centers
with
extensive
tolerance
various
substrates,
resulted
in
a
potential
molecular
library
for
developing
functional
polycyclic
scaffolds.
ACS Catalysis,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
13(12), P. 8273 - 8280
Published: June 6, 2023
A
class
of
confined
chiral
hypervalent
iodines
have
been
designed
and
developed
by
incorporating
two
sterically
demanding
BINOL-derived
units,
which
form
the
second-layer
environment,
into
iodine-containing
molecules
to
lock
down
conformation
catalyst
indirectly
create
a
compact
environment
around
active
site.
Good-to-excellent
enantioselectivities
achieved
with
these
catalysts
for
α-oxysulfonylation
ketones
(up
97.5:2.5
er)
oxidative
cyclization
5-oxo-5-arylpentanoic
acids
γ-butyrolactones
98:2
er),
thereby
demonstrating
utility
this
strategy
design.
ChemCatChem,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(18)
Published: July 17, 2023
Abstract
Iodine
and
its
hypervalent
derivatives
have
emerged
as
versatile
environmentally
friendly
oxidative
reagents
in
organic
synthesis,
offering
efficient
ways
to
form
new
bonds.
However,
the
use
of
iodine
is
challenging,
they
are
unstable,
potentially
explosive,
costly.
Therefore,
hypoiodite
species
derived
from
onium
iodites
using
safe
inexpensive
oxidants
considered
more
promising
for
facilitating
transformations.
Nevertheless,
applications
such
catalytic
systems
still
limited
scope,
especially
asymmetric
reactions.
In
this
concept
paper,
we
described
recent
progress
chiral
hypoiodite‐catalyzed
enantioselective
bond‐forming
reactions,
focusing
on
carbon–oxygen,
carbon–nitrogen,
carbon–carbon
bond
formation
reactions
ammonium
guanidinium
salts
iodites.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
89(16), P. 11487 - 11501
Published: July 30, 2024
Rational
design
and
development
of
organic
reactions
are
lofty
goals
in
synthetic
chemistry.
Quantitative
description
the
properties
molecules
by
physical
parameters
plays
an
important
role
this
regard.
In
Article,
we
report
energy
scale,
namely,
electrophile-arene
affinity
(EAA),
for
evaluating
thermodynamics
electrophilic
dearomatization
reactions,
a
class
transformations
that
can
rapidly
build
up
molecular
complexity
structural
diversity
converting
planar
aromatic
compounds
into
three-dimensional
cyclic
molecules.
The
acquisition
EAA
data
be
readily
achieved
theoretically
calculating
enthalpy
changes
(Δ
Organic Letters,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Nov. 28, 2024
An
electrochemical
approach
for
the
indirect
oxidative
generation
of
hypervalent
iodoarene
as
a
reaction
catalyst
has
been
reported.
The
proceeds
first
from
active
Cl
species
by
electro-oxidation,
followed
transfer
to
generate
ArICl
Green Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
25(24), P. 10447 - 10457
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
A
concise,
scalable
and
efficient
process
has
been
well
established
to
access
a
new
conformationally
flexible
recyclable
aryl
iodine
catalyst
library,
which
could
be
extensively
loaded
series
of
highly
enantioselective
oxidative
transformations.