Catalytic Reductive Pinacol-Type Rearrangement of Unactivated 1,2-Diols through a Concerted, Stereoinvertive Mechanism

Autor: Erhan Ozkal, Walter Thiel, Nikolaos Drosos, Bastien Cacherat, Gui-Juan Cheng, Bill Morandi
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56:13377-13381
ISSN: 1433-7851
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201704936
Popis: A catalytic pinacol-type reductive rearrangement reaction of internal 1,2-diols is reported herein. Several scaffolds not usually amenable to pinacol-type reactions, such as aliphatic secondary-secondary diols, undergo the transformation well without the need for prefunctionalization. The reaction uses a simple boron catalyst and two silanes and proceeds through a concerted, stereoinvertive mechanism that enables the preparation of highly enantiomerically enriched products. Computational studies have been used to rationalize the preference for migration over direct deoxygenation.
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