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ArticleNature chemistry2024

Organocatalytic aromatization-promoted umpolung reaction of imines.

Ye-Hui Chen, Meng Duan, Si-Li Lin, Yu-Wei Liu, Jun Kee Cheng, Shao-Hua Xiang, Peiyuan Yu, Kendall N Houk, Bin Tan

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Ye-Hui Chen *Shenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Meng Duan *Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4689-9811
Si-Li LinShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Yu-Wei LiuShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Jun Kee ChengShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Shao-Hua XiangShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-5626
Peiyuan YuShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4367-6866
Kendall N HoukDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. houk@chem.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8387-5261
Bin TanShenzhen Grubbs Institute, Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. tanb@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8219-9970

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) Nos. 21825105National Science Foundation (NSF) CHE-1764328
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The umpolung functionalization of imines bears vast synthetic potential, but polarity inversion is less efficient compared with the carbonyl counterparts. Strong nucleophiles are often required to react with the N-electrophiles without catalytic and stereochemical control. Here we show an effective strategy to realize umpolung of imines promoted by organocatalytic aromatization. The attachment of strongly electron-withdrawing groups to imines could enhance the umpolung reactivity by both electronegativity and aromatic character, enabling the direct amination of (hetero)arenes with good efficiencies and stereoselectivities. Additionally, the application of chiral Brønsted acid catalyst furnishes (hetero)aryl C-N atropisomers or enantioenriched aliphatic amines via dearomative amination from N-electrophilic aromatic precursors. Control experiments and density functional theory calculations suggest an ionic mechanism for the umpolung reaction of imines. This disconnection expands the options to forge C-N bonds stereoselectively on (hetero)arenes, which represents an important synthetic pursuit, especially in medicinal chemistry.

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