Fe(III)-Catalyzed Ring Expansion of Cyclopropenone from Olefins via Radicals to Access Pyrone and Indanone Derivatives
Organic Letters,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 11, 2025
A
novel
approach
for
the
synthesis
of
pyrone
and
indanone
derivatives
utilizing
Fe(III)-catalyzed
reductive
radical
ring
expansion
olefins
cyclopropenone
has
been
proposed.
The
preliminary
mechanism
study
shows
that
alkyl
is
formed
by
hydrogen
atom
transfer,
which
can
open
tension
then
generate
intermediate.
There
are
two
paths
intermediate:
when
there
a
hydroxyl
group
at
β-position
olefin,
reaction
produces
pyrones,
otherwise
1-indanone
generated.
This
method
mild
conditions
wide
substrate
adaptability
allows
fragment
to
be
conveniently
accessed.
Язык: Английский
Bifunctional Ligand Enables Gold‐Catalyzed Propargyl C‐H Functionalization via Reactive Gold Allenylidene Intermediate
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
63(29)
Опубликована: Апрель 25, 2024
Abstract
Gold
allenylidene
species
have
been
seldom
exploited
as
reactive
intermediates
in
synthetically
versatile
catalytic
reactions.
By
employing
alkynylbenziodoxoles
the
substrates
and
bifunctional
WangPhos
metal
ligand,
this
work
demonstrated
ready
access
to
these
of
general
substitution
patterns
their
electrophilic
reactivities
at
γ‐carbon
center
with
a
diverse
range
nucleophiles.
The
reaction
is
driven
by
reductive
decomposition
benziodoxole
moiety
achieves
replacement
propargylic
proton
an
N/O/C‐based
nucleophile,
hence
realizing
reactivity
umpolung.
Corroborated
Density
Functional
Theory
(DFT)
calculations,
mechanism
involves
mild
deprotonation.
In
contrast
prior
works
tertiary
amine
functionality,
weakly
BrØnsted‐basic
amide
group
surprisingly
effective
deprotonation
position
under
gold‐ligand
cooperation
regime.
Язык: Английский
NHC-Catalyzed and Brønsted Acid Copromoted E → Z Isomerization Mode of Breslow Intermediates Leading to Ralfuranones
Organic Letters,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Май 12, 2025
Different
Z/E-isomers
of
functional
molecules
display
distinct
chemical
and
biological
activities.
The
E
→
Z
isomerization
reaction
is
a
contra-thermodynamic
direction
presents
long-standing
challenge
in
synthetic
transformation.
To
date,
organic
catalysis
methods
for
manipulating
E/Z
are
still
under
development.
Here
we
show
new
N-heterocyclic
carbene
(NHC)-catalyzed
mode.
E-isomer
enedial
undergoes
to
give
Z-isomer
Breslow
intermediate
via
NHC
catalysis,
an
intramolecular
hydrogen
bond
can
greatly
stabilize
this
conformation.
Subsequently,
the
Brønsted
acid
promotes
further
redox-neutral
reaction.
desired
ralfuranone
products
obtained
from
our
method
be
readily
transformed
various
molecules.
Язык: Английский
Bifunctional Ligand Enables Gold‐Catalyzed Propargyl C‐H Functionalization via Reactive Gold Allenylidene Intermediate
Angewandte Chemie,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
136(29)
Опубликована: Апрель 25, 2024
Abstract
Gold
allenylidene
species
have
been
seldom
exploited
as
reactive
intermediates
in
synthetically
versatile
catalytic
reactions.
By
employing
alkynylbenziodoxoles
the
substrates
and
bifunctional
WangPhos
metal
ligand,
this
work
demonstrated
ready
access
to
these
of
general
substitution
patterns
their
electrophilic
reactivities
at
γ‐carbon
center
with
a
diverse
range
nucleophiles.
The
reaction
is
driven
by
reductive
decomposition
benziodoxole
moiety
achieves
replacement
propargylic
proton
an
N/O/C‐based
nucleophile,
hence
realizing
reactivity
umpolung.
Corroborated
Density
Functional
Theory
(DFT)
calculations,
mechanism
involves
mild
deprotonation.
In
contrast
prior
works
tertiary
amine
functionality,
weakly
BrØnsted‐basic
amide
group
surprisingly
effective
deprotonation
position
under
gold‐ligand
cooperation
regime.
Язык: Английский