title: Organocatalytic asymmetric tandem Michael addition-hemiacetalization: a route to chiral dihydrocoumarins, chromanes, and 4H-chromenes.
abstract: Asymmetric tandem Michael addition-hemiacetalization between aliphatic aldehydes and (E)-2-(2-nitrovinyl)phenols was investigated for constructing benzopyran backbones. Interestingly, the diastereo- and enantioselectivities changed markedly when the reaction was mediated by different types of secondary amine catalysts. The diphenylprolinol silyl ether 7 promoted the reaction with excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99% ee) but with moderate diastereoselectivities (2.8:1 to 10:1). Prolylprolinols are another type of efficient catalyst. Among them, l,l-prolylprolinol 5c is identified as the optimal species, showing high catalytic activity, good enantioselectivities (up to 89% ee), and excellent diasereoselectivities (up to 50:1 dr). Various aliphatic aldehydes and substituted (E)-2-(2-nitrovinyl)phenols were proven to be well tolerated in this tandem reaction. In addition, the chroman-2-ols 3 yielded in the above reactions could be conveniently transformed to synthetically and biologically significant chiral dihydrocoumarin, chroman, and 4H-chromene derivatives.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Dengfu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Yajun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuefa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D000447:Aldehydes / Q000737:chemistry; D000588:Amines / Q000737:chemistry*; D001578:Benzopyrans / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002384:Catalysis; D002839:Chromans / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D003374:Coumarins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D003500:Cyclization; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010636:Phenols / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D000588:Amines; D001578:Benzopyrans; D002839:Chromans; D003374:Coumarins; D010636:Phenols