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SUBMITTER: Horwitz MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618493 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horwitz Matthew A MA Tanaka Naoya N Yokosaka Takuya T Uraguchi Daisuke D Johnson Jeffrey S JS Ooi Takashi T
Chemical science 20150730 11
A metal-free stereoselective reductive coupling reaction between isatins and aldehydes is reported. The reaction relies on commercial diethyl phosphite (∼€70 kg<sup>-1</sup>) as the stoichiometric reductant. Base-catalyzed Pudovik addition and phosphonate/phosphate rearrangement achieved polarity inversion on the isatin, and the derived carbanions were trapped by aldehydes with subsequent dialkoxyphosphinyl migration. Chiral iminophosphoranes were used as basic catalysts to achieve high diastere ...[more]