On the Racemization of Chiral Imidazolines

Autor: Teresa Bartholomeyzik, Heewon Lee, Carl A. Busacca, Sreedhar Cheekoori, Sherry Shen, Anjan Saha, Shengli Ma, Nelu Grinberg, Chris H. Senanayake
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73:9756-9761
ISSN: 1520-6904
0022-3263
Popis: Racemization of chiral imidazolines with base has been studied for the first time following an unexpected finding in the synthesis of chiral imidazoline ligands. Amine bases do not cause racemization. Strong inorganic bases can induce racemization, yet this occurs only when the nitrogen is unsubstituted, in agreement with a symmetry-allowed thermal disrotatory ring opening and closure from a diazapentadienyl anion. Surprisingly, even with electron-withdrawing N-substituents, no racemization is observed. Conditions which allow for the racemization-free manipulations of this important compound class have been defined and developed.
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