Synthesis 2016; 48(07): 935-959
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560396
review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Recent Advances in Direct Catalytic Dehydrative Substitution of Alcohols

Marian Dryzhakov
ISIS & icFRC, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France   Email: moran@unistra.fr
,
Edward Richmond
ISIS & icFRC, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France   Email: moran@unistra.fr
,
Joseph Moran*
ISIS & icFRC, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France   Email: moran@unistra.fr
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Publication History

Received: 26 October 2015

Accepted after revision: 04 December 2015

Publication Date:
03 February 2016 (online)


Abstract

This review describes methods for the direct catalytic dehydrative substitution of alcohols in the absence of stoichiometric activating agents, excluding methods that involve transfer hydrogenation. Although some earlier literature is discussed, this review mainly covers literature published from 2010 through August 2015.

1 Introduction

2 SN1-Type Reactivity

2.1 π-Activated Alcohols

2.1.1 Benzylic Alcohols

2.1.2 Allylic Alcohols

2.1.3 Propargylic Alcohols

2.2 Aliphatic Alcohols

2.3 Chemoselectivity Considerations

3 Stereospecific Methods

4 Enantioselective Methods

4.1 Enantioinduction via Transient Chiral Nucleophiles

4.1.1 Nucleophilic Capture of Cationic Intermediates

4.1.2 Nucleophilic Capture of Transition-Metal-Stabilized Intermediates

4.2 Enantioinduction via Transient Chiral Nucleophiles

4.3 Enantioinduction via Synergistic Chiral Catalysis

4.4 Enantioinduction via Bifunctional Catalysis

5 Conclusion and Outlook