Liu, Yuanhua published the artcileEfficient Access to Chiral 2-Oxazolidinones via Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Scope Study, Mechanistic Explanation, and Origin of Enantioselectivity, Recommanded Product: 3-Acetylthiophene, the main research area is oxazolidinone preparation enantioselective; oxazolone hydrogenation nickel catalyst.
Cheap transition metal Ni-catalyzed asym. hydrogenation of 2-oxazolones I (R = Me, Ph, thiophen-3-yl, etc.) was successfully developed, which provided an efficient synthetic strategy to prepare various chiral 2-oxazolidinones II with 95%-99% yields and 97%->99% ee. The gram-scale hydrogenation could be proceeded well with >99% ee in the presence of low catalyst loading (up to 3350 TON). This Ni-catalyzed hydrogenation protocol demonstrated great synthetic utility, and the chiral 2-oxazolidinone product II was easily converted to a variety of other important mols. in good yields and without loss of ee values, such as chiral dihydrothiophene-2(3H)-thione, amino alc., oxazoline ligand, and allenamide. Moreover, a series of deuterium labeling experiments, control experiments, and DFT calculations were conducted to illustrate a reasonable catalytic mechanism for this Ni-catalyzed asym. hydrogenation, which involved a tautomerization between the enamine and its isomer imine and then went through asym. 1,2-addition of Ni(II)-H to the preferred imine.
ACS Catalysis published new progress about Density functional theory, B3LYP. 1468-83-3 belongs to class benzothiophene, name is 3-Acetylthiophene, and the molecular formula is C6H6OS, Recommanded Product: 3-Acetylthiophene.
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