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Stereocontrolled cyanohydrin ether synthesis through chiral Bronsted acid-mediated vinyl ether hydrocyanation.


ABSTRACT: Vinyl ethers can be protonated to generate oxocarbenium ions that react with Me3SiCN to form cyanohydrin alkyl ethers. Reactions that form racemic products proceed efficiently upon conversion of the vinyl ether to an ?-chloro ether prior to cyanide addition in a pathway that proceeds through Brønsted acid-mediated chloride ionization. Enantiomerically enriched products can be accessed by directly protonating the vinyl ether with a chiral Brønsted acid to form a chiral ion pair. Me3SiCN acts as the nucleophile and PhOH serves as a stoichiometric proton source in a rare example of asymmetric bimolecular nucleophilic addition into an oxocarbenium ion. Computational studies have provided a model for the interaction between the catalyst and the oxocarbenium ion.

SUBMITTER: Lu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856640 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Stereocontrolled cyanohydrin ether synthesis through chiral Brønsted acid-mediated vinyl ether hydrocyanation.

Lu Chunliang C   Su Xiaoge X   Floreancig Paul E PE  

The Journal of organic chemistry 20130904 18


Vinyl ethers can be protonated to generate oxocarbenium ions that react with Me3SiCN to form cyanohydrin alkyl ethers. Reactions that form racemic products proceed efficiently upon conversion of the vinyl ether to an α-chloro ether prior to cyanide addition in a pathway that proceeds through Brønsted acid-mediated chloride ionization. Enantiomerically enriched products can be accessed by directly protonating the vinyl ether with a chiral Brønsted acid to form a chiral ion pair. Me3SiCN acts as t  ...[more]

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