Stereoselective Organocatalytic Alkylations with Carbenium Ions

Andrea Gualandi; Pier Giorgio Cozzi

doi:10.1055/s-0032-1317939

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Synlett 2013; 24(3): 281-296
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1317939

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Stereoselective Organocatalytic Alkylations with Carbenium Ions

Authors

Andrea Gualandi

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’, Via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy Fax: +39(051)2099456 Email: piergiorgio.cozzi@unibo.it
Pier Giorgio Cozzi*

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Chimica ‘G. Ciamician’, Via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy Fax: +39(051)2099456 Email: piergiorgio.cozzi@unibo.it

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It was a great pleasure to discuss many new and very ‘distant’ subjects with Dr. Ing. Alessandro Bramanti and with the NNL team in Bari, now involved in the European project MolarNET. Ferrocenyl alcohols and many chemicals were a precious gift from Johnson Matthey Catalysis. I give my keenest acknowledgments for a very generous supply of ferrocene derivatives to Antonio Zanotti-Gerosa, a world leader in stereoselective hydrogenation, but principally a very good friend. I am grateful to my outstanding colleagues and friends in the Ciamician Department for helpful discussions. I am also extremely grateful for very fruitful talks with Herbert Mayr. I would like to acknowledge Claire Margaret Wilson for proofreading this document. I have briefly mentioned the students involved in the project and their practical and intellectual contributions – again, thanks to all of you!

Abstract

Diastereoselective S_N1-type reactions have been known for many years and have been used in the synthesis of many natural products. It has recently been shown that chiral nucleophiles, obtained using organocatalytic methodologies, can react with highly reactive carbenium ions in a stereoselective fashion. Based on this, carbenium ions can be applied in asymmetric catalytic reactions.

1 Introduction

1.1 Reaction of Ferrocenyl Alcohols with Lewis Acids

2 Reaction of Alcohols ‘on Water’

2.1 Stability of Carbenium Ions and the Mayr Scale

3 Organocatalytic Stereoselective S_N1-Type Reactions of Aldehydes and Isolated Carbenium Ions

3.1 Attempts at the Related Asymmetric S_N1-Type α-Alkylation of Ketones

3.2 Organocatalytic Stereoselective S_N1-Type Reactions under Oxidative Conditions

4 Organocatalytic S_N1-Type Reactions Involving Lewis Acids

5 Alkylation of Aldehydes Made Simple with the Benzodithiolylium Ion

6 Organocatalytic S_N1-Type Reactions Involving Brønsted Acids

7 S_N1-Type Reactions Promoted by Chiral Thioureas

8 Conclusion and Perspectives

Key words

organocatalysis - S_N1-type reactions - carbenium ions - alkylations - stereoselectivity

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