{"title":"Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Pictet-Spengler Reaction for Concise Synthesis of CF<sub>3</sub>-Substituted Tetrahydro-β-Carbolines.","authors":"Shigenobu Umemiya, Shinnosuke Nara, Masahiro Terada","doi":"10.1021/acs.orglett.5c01864","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluorine-containing compounds are widely found in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials. In particular, compounds containing enantioenriched trifluoromethyl groups are essential because they show metabolic stability, lipophilicity, and membrane permeability in vivo. In this study, an enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction of tryptamine derivatives with 1,1,1-trifluoro-4-[tris(1-methylethyl)silyl]-3-butyn-2-one catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid is demonstrated, which provides CF<sub>3</sub>-containing chiral tetrahydro-β-carboline derivatives in good yields with high enantioselectivities.</p>","PeriodicalId":54,"journal":{"name":"Organic Letters","volume":" ","pages":"6204-6210"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12172053/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic Letters","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c01864","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/6/3 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Fluorine-containing compounds are widely found in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and functional materials. In particular, compounds containing enantioenriched trifluoromethyl groups are essential because they show metabolic stability, lipophilicity, and membrane permeability in vivo. In this study, an enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction of tryptamine derivatives with 1,1,1-trifluoro-4-[tris(1-methylethyl)silyl]-3-butyn-2-one catalyzed by a chiral phosphoric acid is demonstrated, which provides CF3-containing chiral tetrahydro-β-carboline derivatives in good yields with high enantioselectivities.
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