Enantiodivergent Sulfoxidation Catalyzed by a Photoswitchable Iron Salen Phosphate Complex.
Chemistry
; 29(24): e202203539, 2023 Apr 25.
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Here we describe a photoswitchable iron(III) salen phosphate catalyst, which is able to catalyze the enantiodivergent oxidation of prochiral aryl alkyl sulfides to chiral aryl alkyl sulfoxides. The stable (S)-axial isomer of the catalyst produced enantioenriched sulfoxides with the (R)-configuration in up to 75 % e.e., whereas the photoisomerized metastable (R)-axial isomer of the catalyst favored the formation of (S)-sulfoxides in up to 43 % e.e. The maximum Δe.e. value obtained in the enantiodivergent sulfoxidation was 118 %, which is identical to the maximum Δe.e. value that was measured in the enantiodivergent epoxidation of alkenes by a related recently described Mn1 catalyst. This iron-based catalyst broadens the scope of photoswitchable enantiodivergent catalysts and may be used in the future to develop a photoswitchable catalytic system that can write digital information on a polymer chain in the form chiral sulfoxide functions.
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