Access to Chiral Rigid Hemicyanine Fluorophores from Tröger Bases and α-Imino Carbenes
Author(s) -
Nidal Saleh,
Alessandro Bosmani,
Céline Besnard,
Thomas Bürgi,
Denis Jacquemin,
Jérôme Lacour
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
organic letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.94
H-Index - 239
eISSN - 1523-7060
pISSN - 1523-7052
DOI - 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02726
Subject(s) - chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , catalysis , stereochemistry , organic chemistry
Chiral hemicyanine fluorophores are afforded in three steps only from Tröger bases via α-imino carbene additions, an original aminal deprotection and Cu(II)-mediated oxidation. The stable benzodiazepinoindolium salts are readily isolated and present (chir)optical properties that can be fine-tuned by late-stage cross-coupling functionalization. The hemicyanine character of dyes was rationalized using first principles.
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