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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 60(14): 7906-7912, 2021 03 29.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33469976
RESUMO
A new mode of carbene-catalyzed heteroatom activation and asymmetric reactions is disclosed. The reaction starts with addition of a carbene catalyst to a (benz)imidazole-derived aldimine substrate. Subsequent oxidation and proton transfer lead to the formation of a catalyst-bound triaza-diene as the key intermediate, in which the nitrogen atom at a site remote to the catalyst-substrate bond is activated. This unusual triaza-diene intermediate then undergoes highly enantioselective reactions with activated ketones through a concerted asynchronous pathway, as supported by mechanistic studies and preliminary density function theory calculation.