Evidence for a Boroxinate Based Brønsted Acid Derivative of VAPOL as the Active Catalyst in the Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination Reaction

Autor: Li Huang, Gang Hu, William D. Wulff, Rui H. Huang
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131:15615-15617
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/ja904589k
Popis: Studies are described that were designed to determine the structure of the active catalyst in the asymmetric catalytic aziridination of imines with ethyl diazoacetate (AZ reaction). Evidence suggests that the active catalyst contains a boroxine ring in which one of the three boron atoms is spiro-fused with the two phenol groups of the VAPOL ligand. (11)B and (1)H NMR evidence supports the boroxinate structure B in which the counterion to the boroxinate is the protonated form of the imine. The boroxinate structure is also supported by two solid state structures of a VAPOL boroxinate in which the gegen cation is tetramethyl ammonium and 4-dimethylaminopyridinium.
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