Stereoselective Formation of Carbon−Carbon Bonds via SN2-Displacement: Synthesis of Substituted Cycloalkyl[b]indoles

Autor: Richard D. Tillyer, Jean-François Marcoux, and Arlene E. McKeown, Dalian Zhao, Edward J. J. Grabowski, Michael C. Hillier
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 70:8385-8394
ISSN: 1520-6904
0022-3263
DOI: 10.1021/jo051146p
Popis: A general asymmetric synthesis of substituted cycloalkyl[b]indoles has been accomplished. The key features of this approach are (1) the utilization of a Japp-Klingemann condensation/Fischer cyclization to prepare cycloalkyl[b]indolones, (2) the asymmetric borane reduction of these heterocyclic ketones with (S)-OAB to obtain enantiomerically pure alcohols, and (3) the stereoselective S(N)2-displacement of these indole alcohol substrates with a carbon nucleophile under Mitsunobu conditions to set the C1 or C3 tertiary carbon stereocenter. The use of trimethylphosphine (PMe3) and bis(2,2,2-trichloroethyl) azodicarboxylate (TCEAD) was found to have an effect on the Mitsunobu dehydrative alkylation.
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