Silyl Imine Electrophiles in Enantioselective Catalysis: A Rosetta Stone for Peptide Homologation, Enabling Diverse N-Protected Aryl Glycines from Aldehydes in Three Steps | Zendy

Dawn M. Makley | Zendy; Jeffrey N. Johnston | Zendy

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Silyl Imine Electrophiles in Enantioselective Catalysis: A Rosetta Stone for Peptide Homologation, Enabling Diverse N-Protected Aryl Glycines from Aldehydes in Three Steps

Author(s) -

Dawn M. Makley,

Jeffrey N. Johnston

Publication year - 2014

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/ol501297a

Subject(s) - chemistry , electrophile , imine , aryl , umpolung , silylation , enantioselective synthesis , epimer , amidine , trimethylsilyl , catalysis , organic chemistry , amino acid , combinatorial chemistry , stereochemistry , nucleophile , alkyl , biochemistry

We report that N-(trimethylsilyl)imines serve in the Bis(AMidine)-catalyzed addition of bromonitromethane with a high degree of enantioselection. This allows for the production of a range of protected α-bromo nitroalkane donors (including Fmoc) for use in Umpolung Amide Synthesis (UmAS). Hence, peptide homologation with nonnatural aryl glycine amino acids is achieved in three steps from aromatic aldehydes, which are plentiful and inexpensive. Epimerization during the homologation step is circumvented by avoiding an α-amino acid intermediate.

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