Enantio- and diastereodivergent synthesis of fused indolizines enabled by synergistic Cu/Ir catalysis

Highly diastereo-/enantioselective assembly of 2,3-fused indolizine derivatives could be easily available through a cascade allylation/Friedel-Crafts type reaction enabled by a synergistic Cu/Ir catalysis. This designed protocol provides an unprecedented and facile route to enantioenriched indolizin...

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Published in:Chemical science (Cambridge) 2023-04, Vol.14 (15), p.4134-4142
Main Authors: Zhu, Bing-Ke, Xu, Hui, Xiao, Lu, Chang, Xin, Wei, Liang, Teng, Huailong, Dang, Yanfeng, Dong, Xiu-Qin, Wang, Chun-Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Allyl compounds
Catalysis
Chemical reactions
Chemistry
Copper
Enantiomers
Friedel-Crafts reaction
Iridium
Protonation
Quantum mechanics
Stereoisomerism
Stereoselectivity
Substrates
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Summary:Highly diastereo-/enantioselective assembly of 2,3-fused indolizine derivatives could be easily available through a cascade allylation/Friedel-Crafts type reaction enabled by a synergistic Cu/Ir catalysis. This designed protocol provides an unprecedented and facile route to enantioenriched indolizines bearing three stereogenic centers in moderate to high yields with excellent stereoselective control, which also featured broad substrate generality. Remarkably, four stereoisomers of the 2,3-fused indolizine products could be efficiently constructed in a predictable manner through the pairwise combination of copper and iridium catalysts. The synthetic utility of this method was readily elaborated by a gram-scale reaction, and synthetic transformations to other important chiral indolizine derivatives. Quantum mechanical explorations constructed a plausible synergetic catalytic cycle, revealed the origins of stereodivergence, and rationalized the protonation-stimulated stereoselective Friedel-Crafts type cyclization to form the indolizine products. Highly selective assembly of 2,3-fused indolizines was achieved via a cascade allylation/Friedel-Crafts type reaction with Cu/Ir catalysis. This protocol furnishes a stereodivergent synthesis of chiral indolizines bearing three stereogenic centers with excellent results.
ISSN:2041-6520
2041-6539
DOI:10.1039/d3sc00118k