
Chemistry - A European Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 11, 2024
Optically active mandelic acid esters represent a highly valuable class of building blocks in organic synthesis and recurrent motifs embedded bioactive compounds drugs. Herein, we provide an enantioselective one-pot based on Knoevenagel condensation/asymmetric epoxidation/domino ring-opening hydrolysis (DROH) sequence to the crude acids, which underwent final esterification step (R)-methyl mandelates. These products have been obtained good high overall yield enantioselectivity, using commercially widely available reagents catalyst including aldehydes, phenylsulfonyl acetonitrile, cumyl hydroperoxide, water epi-quinine-derived urea as organocatalyst. Moreover, versatility process has demonstrated prepare corresponding α-alkoxy manner, when primary alcohols domino (DROE) step. This system is first example non-enzymatic catalytic protocol allows straightforward asymmetric derivatives from aldehyde feedstocks.
Язык: Английский