Exploring benzylic gem-C(sp3)–boron–silicon and boron–tin centers as a synthetic platform

Autor: Anton Cunillera, Alexandr Shafir, Ana B. Cuenca, Laura G Rodríguez, Marta Díaz Baranda, Wei W. Chen, Nahiane Pipaon Fernández
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Chemical Science
ISSN: 2041-6539
2041-6520
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01741a
Popis: A stepwise build-up of multi-substituted Csp3 carbon centers is an attractive, conceptually simple, but often synthetically challenging type of disconnection. To this end, this report describes how gem-α,α-dimetalloid-substituted benzylic reagents bearing boron/silicon or boron/tin substituent sets are an excellent stepping stone towards diverse substitution patterns. These gem-dimetalloids were readily accessed, either by known carbenoid insertion into C–B bonds or by the newly developed scalable deprotonation/metallation approach. Highly chemoselective transformations of either the C–Si (or C–Sn) or the C–B bonds in the newly formed gem-Csp3 centers have been achieved through a set of approaches, with a particular focus on exploiting the synthetically versatile polarity reversal in organometalloids by λ3-aryliodanes. Of particular note is the metal-free arylation of the C–Si (or C–Sn) bonds in such gem-dimetalloids via the iodane-guided C–H coupling approach. DFT calculations show that this transfer of the (α-Bpin)benzyl group proceeds via unusual [5,5]-sigmatropic rearrangement and is driven by the high-energy iodine(III) center. As a complementary tool, the gem-dimetalloid C–B bond is shown to undergo a potent and chemoselective Suzuki–Miyaura arylation with diverse Ar–Cl, thanks to the development of the reactive gem-α,α-silyl/BF3K building blocks.
This work was funded by MINECO (CTQ2017-86936-P), MICINN (PID2020-113661GB-I00) and AGAUR (2017 SGR 01051 and 2017 SGR 00294), as well as financial support from URL (2019-URL_Proj-034), IQS-Obra Social La Caixa (2017-URL-Intermac-010) and an entry-level grant from CSIC. IQS is also acknowledged for a doctoral scholarship to W. W. C., and CSIC for the JAE Intro scholarship for L. R. G.
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