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Dirhodium‐Catalyzed Enantioselective B−H Bond Insertion of gem ‐Diaryl Carbenes: Efficient Access to gem ‐Diarylmethine Boranes
- Source :
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60:24214-24219
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- The scarcity of reliable methods for synthesizing chiral gem-diarylmethine borons limits their applications. Herein, we report a method for highly enantioselective dirhodium-catalyzed B-H bond insertion reactions with diaryl diazomethanes as carbene precursors. These reactions afforded chiral gem-diarylmethine borane compounds in high yield (up to 99 % yield), high activity (turnover numbers up to 14 300), high enantioselectivity (up to 99 % ee) and showed unprecedented broad functional group tolerance. The borane compounds synthesized by this method could be efficiently transformed into diaryl methanol, diaryl methyl amine, and triaryl methane derivatives with good stereospecificity. Mechanistic studies suggested that the borane adduct coordinated to the rhodium catalyst and thus interfered with decomposition of the diazomethane, and that insertion of a rhodium carbene (generated from the diaryl diazomethane) into the B-H bond was most likely the rate-determining step.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15213773 and 14337851
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ade44c76d5e692f4223b4ab9e001e5dd