Asymmetric isothiourea-catalysed formal [3+2] cycloadditions of ammonium enolates with oxaziridines

Siobhan Rose Smith; Charlene Fallan; James Edward Taylor; Ross Sinclair McLennan; David Sydney Bernard Daniels; Louis Christian Morrill; Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin; Andrew David Smith

doi:10.1002/chem.201501271

Asymmetric isothiourea-catalysed formal [3+2] cycloadditions of ammonium enolates with oxaziridines

Siobhan Rose Smith, Charlene Fallan, James Edward Taylor, Ross Sinclair McLennan, David Sydney Bernard Daniels, Louis Christian Morrill, Alexandra Martha Zoya Slawin, Andrew David Smith

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Abstract

A highly enantioselective Lewis base-catalysed formal [3+2] cycloaddition of ammonium enolates and oxaziridines to give stereodefined oxazolidin-4-ones in high yield is described. Employing an enantioenriched oxaziridine in this process leads to a matched/mis-matched effect with the isothiourea catalyst and allowed the synthesis of either syn- or anti-stereodefined oxazolidin-4-ones in high dr, yield and ee. Additionally, the oxazolidin-4-one products have been derivatised to afford functionalised enantioenriched building blocks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10530–10536
Journal	Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume	21
Issue number	29
Early online date	12 Jun 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201501271
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2015

Keywords

Organocatalysis
Nitrogen heterocycles
Oxygen heterocycles
Asymmetric synthesis

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