{"title":"Catalytic Desymmetrizing Carbonyl–Amine Condensation Reaction to Construct Axially Chiral Diaryl Ethers","authors":"Tao Huang, Ze-Xin Zhou, Hui-Ling Zhou, Xu-Ping Liu, Yan-Fei Niu, Yi-Yuan Peng, Qiu-Ping Ding, Xing-Ping Zeng","doi":"10.1021/acs.orglett.6c03721","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Catalytic desymmetrizing carbonyl–amine condensation\r\n(CAC)\r\nreactions between prochiral 2,6-diamino diaryl ethers and cyclobutane-1,3-diones\r\nhave been developed for the highly enantioselective synthesis of axially\r\nchiral diaryl ethers in up to 99% ee values. This reaction represents\r\nthe first application of prochiral aromatic amines in catalytically\r\nasymmetric CAC reactions. Control experiments revealed that cyclobutane-1,3-diones\r\nshowed an obviously higher reactivity and enantioselectivities in\r\nthese asymmetric CAC reactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":54,"journal":{"name":"Organic Letters","volume":"28 41","pages":"12947–12952"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organic Letters","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.6c03721","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/10/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Catalytic desymmetrizing carbonyl–amine condensation
(CAC)
reactions between prochiral 2,6-diamino diaryl ethers and cyclobutane-1,3-diones
have been developed for the highly enantioselective synthesis of axially
chiral diaryl ethers in up to 99% ee values. This reaction represents
the first application of prochiral aromatic amines in catalytically
asymmetric CAC reactions. Control experiments revealed that cyclobutane-1,3-diones
showed an obviously higher reactivity and enantioselectivities in
these asymmetric CAC reactions.
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