Starting from commercially available ketones, a reproducible and reliable strategy for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted nitroalkenes was successfully developed, using a two-step procedure; the HWE olefination of the ketone to form the corresponding α,β-unsaturated esters is followed by a nitration reaction to introduce the nitro group in the α position of the ester group. The enantioselective organocatalytic reduction of these compounds has also been preliminarily studied, to access the functionalized enantioenriched nitroalkanes, which are useful starting materials for further synthetic elaborations. The absolute configuration of the reduction product was established by chemical correlation of the chiral nitroalkane with a known product; preliminary DFT calculations were also conducted to rationalize the stereochemical outcome of the organocatalytic enantioselective reduction.
Synthesis of tetrasubstituted nitroalkenes and preliminary studies of their enantioselective organocatalytic reduction / P. Camarero González, S. Rossi, M.A. Sanz, F. Vasile, M. Benaglia. - In: MOLECULES. - ISSN 1420-3049. - 28:7(2023), pp. 3156.1-3156.12. [10.3390/molecules28073156]
Synthesis of tetrasubstituted nitroalkenes and preliminary studies of their enantioselective organocatalytic reduction.
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Starting from commercially available ketones, a reproducible and reliable strategy for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted nitroalkenes was successfully developed, using a two-step procedure; the HWE olefination of the ketone to form the corresponding α,β-unsaturated esters is followed by a nitration reaction to introduce the nitro group in the α position of the ester group. The enantioselective organocatalytic reduction of these compounds has also been preliminarily studied, to access the functionalized enantioenriched nitroalkanes, which are useful starting materials for further synthetic elaborations. The absolute configuration of the reduction product was established by chemical correlation of the chiral nitroalkane with a known product; preliminary DFT calculations were also conducted to rationalize the stereochemical outcome of the organocatalytic enantioselective reduction.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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