Enantioselective Allenoate-Claisen Rearrangement Using Chiral Phosphate Catalysts.
Javier MiróTobias GenschMario EllwartSeo-Jung HanHsin-Hui LinMatthew S SigmanF Dean TostePublished in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2020)
Herein we report the first highly enantioselective allenoate-Claisen rearrangement using doubly axially chiral phosphate sodium salts as catalysts. This synthetic method provides access to β-amino acid derivatives with vicinal stereocenters in up to 95% ee. We also investigated the mechanism of enantioinduction by transition state (TS) computations with DFT as well as statistical modeling of the relationship between selectivity and the molecular features of both the catalyst and substrate. The mutual interactions of charge-separated regions in both the zwitterionic intermediate generated by reaction of an amine to the allenoate and the Na+-salt of the chiral phosphate leads to an orientation of the TS in the catalytic pocket that maximizes favorable noncovalent interactions. Crucial arene-arene interactions at the periphery of the catalyst lead to a differentiation of the TS diastereomers. These interactions were interrogated using DFT calculations and validated through statistical modeling of parameters describing noncovalent interactions.
Keyphrases
- ionic liquid
- highly efficient
- density functional theory
- amino acid
- room temperature
- metal organic framework
- molecular docking
- molecular dynamics
- molecular dynamics simulations
- reduced graphene oxide
- crystal structure
- mass spectrometry
- water soluble
- atomic force microscopy
- monte carlo
- structure activity relationship