Journal of the American Chemical Society, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 22, 2025

The synthesis of chiral tetrahydroquinolines (THQs) has garnered significant interest from medicinal chemists due to their frequent presence as pharmacophores in bioactive compounds. While existing synthetic methods have primarily focused on THQs with single or multiple endocyclic centers, the selective construction both endo- and exo-cyclic centers remains a challenge that requires further development. This study introduces dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR)-based transfer hydrogenation racemic 2-substituted quinolines, which yields structurally novel consecutive excellent stereoselectivities (59 examples, generally >20:1 dr >90% ee, up three stereocenters). Our approach offers mechanistically method for asymmetric transformation electron-deficient aromatic N-heterocycles presents an innovative way expand N-heterocycle chemical space chemistry.

Язык: Английский