Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Cacchi Reaction: Asymmetric Synthesis of Axially Chiral 2,3-Disubstituted Indoles. 2020

Yu-Ping He, and Hua Wu, and Qian Wang, and Jieping Zhu
Laboratory of Synthesis and Natural Products, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SB-ISIC-LSPN, BCH 5304, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.

We report herein the first examples of a palladium-catalyzed enantioselective Cacchi reaction for the synthesis of indoles bearing a chiral C2-aryl axis. In the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 and (R,R)-QuinoxP* ligand, reaction of N-aryl(alkyl)sulfonyl-2-alkynylanilides with arylboronic acids under oxygen atmosphere afforded enantioenriched 2,3-disubstituted indoles in high yields and enantioselectivity. The indole ring is constructed de novo in this process and a complexation-induced chirality transfer is proposed to account for the observed enantioselectivity.

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