The author of 《Well-Designed Phosphine-Urea Ligand for Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Methacrylonitrile: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study》 were Xiong, Yang; Du, Zhuanzhuan; Chen, Haohua; Yang, Zhao; Tan, Qiuyuan; Zhang, Changhui; Zhu, Lei; Lan, Yu; Zhang, Min. And the article was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society in 2019. Application In Synthesis of o-Bromobenzaldehyde The author mentioned the following in the article:
A novel chiral phosphine-urea bifunctional ligand has been developed for Cu-catalyzed asym. 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of iminoesters with methacrylonitrile, a long-standing challenging substrate in asym. catalysis. Distortion-interaction energy anal. based on d. functional theory (DFT) calculations reveals that the distortion energy plays an important role in the observed enantioselectivity, which can be attributed to the steric effect between the phosphine ligand and the dipole reactant. DFT calculations also indicate that nucleophilic addition is the enantioselectivity-determining step and hydrogen bonding between the urea moiety and methacrylonitrile assists in control of the diastereo- and enantioselectivity. By a combination of metal catalysis and organocatalysis, excellent diastereo- and enantioselectivities (up to 99:1 diastereomeric ratio, 99% enantiomeric excess) as well as good yields are achieved. A wide range of substitution patterns of both iminoester and acrylonitrile is tolerated by this catalyst system, providing access to a series of highly substituted chiral cyanopyrrolidines with up to two quaternary stereogenic centers. The synthetic utility is demonstrated by enantioselective synthesis of antitumor agent ETP69 with a pivotal nitrile pharmacophore and an all-carbon quaternary stereogenic center. In the part of experimental materials, we found many familiar compounds, such as o-Bromobenzaldehyde(cas: 6630-33-7Application In Synthesis of o-Bromobenzaldehyde)
o-Bromobenzaldehyde(cas: 6630-33-7) is used in L-threonine aldolase-catalyzed enantio/diastereoselective aldol reactions.Application In Synthesis of o-BromobenzaldehydeIt is also used in L-threonine aldolase-catalyzed enantio and diastereoselective aldol reactions. Further, it reacts with trichloromethane to prepare 1-(2-bromo-phenyl)-2,2,2-trichloro-ethanol.
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