Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100082
Meng-Die Li, Xin-Ru Wang, Tao-Yan Lin
{"title":"Recent advances in copper-catalyzed asymmetric propargylic substitution","authors":"Meng-Die Li, Xin-Ru Wang, Tao-Yan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Copper-catalyzed enantioselective propargylic substitution has become an increasingly reliable strategy to construct stereogenic centers over the past two decades. Currently, various catalytic systems and reaction modes have been developed for the synthesis of different chiral propargylic frameworks. Therein, stereochemical control can be achieved either through the nucleophilic addition at the γ-site of the copper-allenylidene intermediate, or the newly proposed nucleophilic addition of copper-vinylvinylidene intermediate comprising two reactive sites (γ, ε). This review briefly summarizes the development of copper-catalyzed asymmetric propargylic substitution on a variety of different substrates, including but not limited to propargylic esters, cyclic carbonates and carbamates, and yne-allylic esters.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100082"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000214/pdfft?md5=1aa6ee4010e77652e0d8df77e22de44f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000214-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100086
Peter Conen , Michael A.R. Meier
{"title":"Reactivities and mechanisms in organic reactions involving activation of elemental sulfur under basic conditions","authors":"Peter Conen , Michael A.R. Meier","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a readily available and benign waste product of the petrochemical industry, elemental sulfur displays desirable characteristics as a raw material for new processes. Accordingly, the use of elemental sulfur as a reactant or reagent in synthetic organic chemistry receives continuous interest. The implementation of sulfur in synthetic procedures often necessitates the presence of basic or nucleophilic compounds, which are known to serve as activators, enabling a diverse range of transformations. However, the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood, even for synthetically useful and well-established reactions that have been known for decades. While numerous reviews focus on the various types of products accessible via organic reactions involving elemental sulfur, this manuscript will put its emphasis on common mechanistic steps of these transformations, highlighting and discussing mechanistic studies and postulated pathways.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000251/pdfft?md5=5b2ca06c2ef7d0bd724e8a4b858a1e7c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000251-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141849795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100078
Katherine Wang, Coralie Thomas, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, John A. Gladysz
{"title":"A cobalt templated outer sphere hydrogen bond donor catalyst derived from 2-guanidinobenzimidazole: Synthesis, applications in carbon–carbon bond forming reactions, structure","authors":"Katherine Wang, Coralie Thomas, Nattamai Bhuvanesh, John A. Gladysz","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A lipophilic tricationic cobalt tris(chelate) complex of 2-guanidinobenzimidazole (GBI), [Co(GBI)<sub>3</sub>]<sup>3+</sup> 3BAr<sub>f</sub><sup>–</sup> (<strong>2</strong><sup>3+</sup> 3BAr<sub>f</sub><sup>–</sup>; BAr<sub>f</sub> = B(3,5-C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>)<sub>4</sub>), is prepared from the corresponding hydrophilic trichloride salt and Na<sup>+</sup> BAr<sub>f</sub><sup>–</sup> or Ag<sup>+</sup> BAr<sub>f</sub><sup>–</sup> under aqueous/organic biphasic conditions. This racemic chiral complex, which is obtained as a <em>mer</em> isomer and a tetradecahydrate as assayed by NMR and TGA, is an excellent catalyst for additions of dimethyl malonate and indole to <em>trans-</em>ß-nitrostyrenes (10 mol%), and cycloadditions of CO<sub>2</sub> to epoxides (1 mol%; solvent-free). Average yields (84 %, 91 %, 81 %) and rates are slightly greater than those obtained with a monocationic ruthenium GBI complex [(η<sup>5</sup>-C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>5</sub>)Ru(CO)(GBI)]<sup>+</sup> BAr<sub>f</sub><sup>–</sup> prepared earlier. Attempted crystallization of <strong>2</strong><sup>3+</sup> 3Cl<sup>–</sup> gives a tetramethanol solvate of a salt derived from loss of two molecules of HCl. This can be represented as [Co(GBI)(GBI<sub>–H</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sup>+</sup> Cl<sup>−</sup>, and bond lengths and hydrogen bonding motifs are carefully analyzed, especially in the context of dominant chelate resonance forms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100078"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000172/pdfft?md5=129d87487d5963230aee78924c599c96&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000172-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-04DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100083
Yiyin Liu , Kun Zhu , Xuemei Li , Xiaoyun Wu , Jinhui Feng , Atefeh Roosta , Qiaqing Wu , Dunming Zhu
{"title":"Asymmetric carbohydroxylation of alkenes via sequential photocatalytic oxo-alkylation and enzymatic reduction","authors":"Yiyin Liu , Kun Zhu , Xuemei Li , Xiaoyun Wu , Jinhui Feng , Atefeh Roosta , Qiaqing Wu , Dunming Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Asymmetric carbohydroxylation of alkenes offers an efficient approach to access chiral alcohols, a class of versatile building blocks in pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, from abundant simple alkenes. Herein we reported a sequential photo-biocatalysis protocol for the asymmetric carbohydroxylation of alkenes, involving a stepwise photocatalytic decarboxylative radical addition/Kornblum oxidation and enzymatic reduction. A series of chiral alcohols with bulky structures were synthesized in up to 75 % isolated yields and 99 % ee from <em>N-</em>hydroxyphthalimide esters and aryl alkenes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100083"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000226/pdfft?md5=0a3f1b332418a2bdbabd201092a6755e&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000226-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141582847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-06-15DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100079
Alessia Mori , Mariana Isabel Crespo Monteiro , Filipa Siopa , Giovanni Poli , Julie Oble
{"title":"Selective C3- or C5-Borylation of furfural derivatives: Enabling the synthesis of tri- and tetra-substituted furan Analogues","authors":"Alessia Mori , Mariana Isabel Crespo Monteiro , Filipa Siopa , Giovanni Poli , Julie Oble","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100079","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100079","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A strategy of C3/C4 and C5/C4 bis-C–H functionalization of furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural is presented. This task has been accomplished by the initial iridium-catalyzed C–H borylation of furfural, equipped with an appropriate imine function. Depending on the nature of the ligand employed, the borylation takes place selectively at C3 or C5, the products serving in turn as partners in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-couplings. After aldehyde function regeneration, some of the resulting heterobiaryl compounds underwent a, C3- or C5-directed, C4-selective Pd-catalyzed Fujiwara-Moritani olefination. These hitherto unknown serial C3/C4 and C5/C4 bis C–H functionalization strategies allow the straightforward conversion of the bio-sourced platform molecules furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural into tri- and tetra-substituted furaldehyde derivatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"11 ","pages":"Article 100079"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000184/pdfft?md5=483828ad7614b7fb594eb87e52ff5dfc&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000184-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141407424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100073
Viktor Klöpfer , Anurag Chinchole , Oliver Reiser
{"title":"Dual iron- and organophotocatalyzed hydroformylation, hydroacylation and hydrocarboxylation of Michael-acceptors utilizing 1,3,5-trioxanes as C1-Synthone","authors":"Viktor Klöpfer , Anurag Chinchole , Oliver Reiser","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A protocol based on photocatalytic cycles of both iron(III)chloride and 9,10-dicyanoanthracene (DCA) is developed for the masked hydroformylation, hydroacylation, and hydrocarboxylation of Michael-Acceptors utilizing readily available 1,3,5-trioxanes. Initiated by the LMCT of [FeCl<sub>4</sub>]<sup>–</sup> to generate chlorine radicals that promote hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) from the trioxanes, 9,10-dicyanoanthracene is used as co-photocatalyst to accelerate the formation of the desired products by facilitating the reoxidation of iron(II) to iron(III). The methodology is robust, allowing the generation of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids either by altering the trioxane and deprotection strategy or by subsequent photocatalyzed conversion of the initially obtained aldehydes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100073"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000123/pdfft?md5=6c9aa4e457cd19c96e477addafae25df&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000123-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140644658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100075
Ruth P. Paulino , Karen Ichikawa , Jonathan Sperry
{"title":"Synthesis and structural affirmation of pubesamides A and B, monoterpene N-benzoyltyramides from white sapote (Casimiroa pubescens)","authors":"Ruth P. Paulino , Karen Ichikawa , Jonathan Sperry","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Pubesamides A and B are structurally unusual monoterpene <em>N</em>-benzoyltyramides isolated from <em>Casimiroa pubescens</em>, a tropical fruiting tree with known psychotropic properties. Herein we report the structural affirmation of both natural products through a chemical synthesis that features a Lewis-acid assisted cross-metathesis reaction between a 1,1-disubstituted alkene and a dienone in the presence of the Hoveyda-Grubbs second generation catalyst. Stereochemically pure samples of pubesamide A and B isomerise upon standing, suggesting they are both genuine natural products.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100075"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000147/pdfft?md5=3c997764006db3c7f4cccf37b4f7f12d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000147-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141291372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064
Luis R. Domingo , Patricia Pérez , Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez , M. José Aurell
{"title":"A molecular electron density theory study of hydrogen bond catalysed polar Diels–Alder reactions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds","authors":"Luis R. Domingo , Patricia Pérez , Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez , M. José Aurell","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The hydrogen bond (HB) catalysed Diels-Alder (DA) reactions of acrolein with cyclopentadiene have been investigated within the Molecular Electron Density Theory (MEDT) at the <em>ω</em>B97X-D/6-311G(d,p) computational level. The formation of HBs increases the electrophilicity of these species, suggesting an acceleration of these polar Diels-Alder (P-DA) reactions with forward electron density flux. Formation of one or two HBs with acrolein decreases the activation energies of the HB-catalysed P-DA reactions by 1.7 (methanol) and 4.0 (squaramide) kcal·mol<sup>−1</sup>, with the corresponding DA reactions exhibiting low <em>endo</em> stereoselectivity. These HB-catalysed DA reactions proceed through non-concerted one-step mechanisms via asynchronous transition state structures (TSs). An Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA) energy partitioning analysis of the TSs indicates that the intra-atomic stabilization of the acrolein framework, coupled with the increase of the global electron density transfer, plays a crucial role in reducing the activation energies of these HB-catalysed DA reactions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000032/pdfft?md5=3c45e65bcb0a8c68ae6311981e65b963&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000032-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140290639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100074
Jie Sheng , Jiaming Cheng , Xu Cheng
{"title":"Electrochemical hydrodefluorination of an aromatic trifluoromethyl group with ammonia as the hydrogen source","authors":"Jie Sheng , Jiaming Cheng , Xu Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tchem.2024.100074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The aromatic difluoromethyl group (Ar-CF<sub>2</sub>H) is an emerging functional group found in pharmaceutical compounds. For synthesis, the hydrodefluorination of Ar-CF<sub>3</sub> molecules is a straightforward approach in terms of atom economy and substrate scope. The reported hydrodefluorination reaction focused on the Ar-CF<sub>3</sub> substrate bearing electron-withdrawing groups. In this report, we utilized electricity as the driving force for the hydrodefluorination of ArCF<sub>3</sub>, which involves electron-donating groups. By using ammonia as a traceless hydrogen and electron donor, the reaction could tolerate a variety of labile groups, including unprotected amine, pyrrole, furan, thioether, and silyl group, without sacrificial anodes in undivided cells. In this work, <em>t</em>BuOLi was found to be an essential additive for achieving good reactivity and chemoselectivity. Several Ar-CF<sub>2</sub>H pharmaceutical and intermediate products were synthesized via this approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100074"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X24000135/pdfft?md5=81d7a2cae6ce30b12c26a34a87698976&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X24000135-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140823089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tetrahedron chemPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2023-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100057
Wenming Zhu , Duo Zhang , Yucheng Li, Ming Yang
{"title":"Total synthesis of 1,2,11,12E-tetradehydrohardwickiic acid","authors":"Wenming Zhu , Duo Zhang , Yucheng Li, Ming Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100057","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tchem.2023.100057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Clerodane diterpenoids are a large class of natural products found in various species and exhibit a wide range of biological activities. <em>trans</em>-Clerodanes, which feature a <em>trans</em>-decalin core structure, are the most common subfamily of clerodane diterpenoids. Previously, we have developed a tail-to-head cyclization strategy <em>via</em> a titanium(III) catalyzed alkyne terminated radical polyene cyclization to synthesis C18 non-oxidized <em>trans</em>-clerodanes and sesquiterpene (hydro)quinones with a similar <em>trans</em>-decalin skeleton. In this communication, we reported the first asymmetric total synthesis of 1,2,11,12<em>E</em>-tetradehydrohardwickiic acid, a C18 oxidized <em>trans</em>-clerodane, through the product of titanium(III) catalyzed tail-to-head polyene cyclization of the derivative of farnesol. A hydroxyl group directed hydrogenation of alkene, an <em>E</em>-selective hydrobromination of terminal alkyne, and a Suzuki coupling were the key steps of the synthesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":74918,"journal":{"name":"Tetrahedron chem","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666951X23000232/pdfft?md5=4dc335a6b0a5b36ae7d33b8add32eafa&pid=1-s2.0-S2666951X23000232-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138621513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}