89232-30-4Relevant articles and documents
Bifunctional Iminophosphorane-Catalyzed Enantioselective Sulfa-Michael Addition to Unactivated α,β-Unsaturated Amides
Dixon, Darren J.,Formica, Michele,Hamlin, Trevor A.,Rozsar, Daniel,Yamazaki, Ken
supporting information, p. 1006 - 1015 (2022/02/03)
The first metal-free catalytic intermolecular enantioselective Michael addition to unactivated α,β-unsaturated amides is described. Consistently high enantiomeric excesses and yields were obtained over a wide range of alkyl thiol pronucleophiles and elect
Ammonia-borane as a Catalyst for the Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids
Ramachandran, P. Veeraraghavan,Hamann, Henry J.
supporting information, p. 2938 - 2942 (2021/05/04)
Ammonia-borane serves as an efficient substoichiometric (10%) precatalyst for the direct amidation of both aromatic and aliphatic carboxylic acids. In situ generation of amine-boranes precedes the amidation and, unlike the amidation with stoichiometric amine-boranes, this process is facile with 1 equiv of the acid. This methodology has high functional group tolerance and chromatography-free purification but is not amenable for esterification. The latter feature has been exploited to prepare hydroxyl- and thiol-containing amides.
Thermodynamically controlled chemoselectivity in lipase-catalyzed aza-Michael additions
Rivera-Ramírez, José Domingo,Escalante, Jaime,López-Munguía, Agustín,Marty, Alain,Castillo, Edmundo
supporting information, p. 76 - 82 (2015/01/30)
Chemoselective synthesis of N-protected β-amino esters involving lipase-catalyzed aza-Michael additions and α,β-unsaturated precursors is mainly hampered by the two electrophilic sites present on these compounds. In order to control the chemoselectivity a solvent engineering strategy based on the thermodynamic behaviour of products in media of different polarity was designed. This strategy allowed to obtain aza-Michael adducts from benzylamine and different acrylates with high selectivity. In almost all reactions carried out in n-hexane, a non-polar solvent, aminolysis was avoided while the corresponding Michael adducts were exclusively synthesized in 53-78% yields. On the contrary, in reactions carried out in a polar solvent such as 2-methyl-2-butanol the aminolysis products were favoured. Thermodynamic analyses of these processes using the COSMO-RS method helped to understand some of the key factors affecting chemoselectivity and confirmed that a reliable estimation of the thermodynamic interactions of solutes and solvents allows an adequate selection of a reaction media that may lead to chemoselectivity.