Catalytic Asymmetric Aza-Diels-Alder Reaction of Ketimines and Unactivated Dienes. 2021

Qun Zhao, and Yao Li, and Qing-Xia Zhang, and Jin-Pei Cheng, and Xin Li
State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.

The enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction is efficient for constructing chiral tetrahydropyridines, but the catalytic asymmetric aza-Diels-Alder reaction of ketimines with unactivated dienes is still a challenging topic. Herein, guided by computational screening, a highly enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction of 2-aryl-3H-indol-3-ones with unactivated dienes was realized by using a B(C6 F5 )3 /chiral phosphoric acid catalyst system under mild conditions. The reaction has a broad scope with respect to both aza-Diels-Alder reaction partners and hence offers rapid access to an array of tetrahydropyridine derivatives with pretty outcomes (up to 99 % yield, >20:1 dr and 98:2 er). The reaction is very efficient: lowering catalyst loadings for the model reaction to 0.1 mol %, enantioselectivity is still maintained. The synthetic utility was confirmed by transformations of the products. DFT calculations provide convincing evidence for the interpretation of stereoselection.

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