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SUBMITTER: Bew SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5502890 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bew Sean P SP Liddle John J Hughes David L DL Pesce Paolo P Thurston Sean M SM
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170405 19
We report a multi-component asymmetric Brønsted acid-catalyzed aza-Darzens reaction which is not limited to specific aromatic or heterocyclic aldehydes. Incorporating alkyl diazoacetates and, important for high ee's, ortho-tert-butoxyaniline our optimized reaction (i.e. solvent, temperature and catalyst study) affords excellent yields (61-98 %) and mostly >90 % optically active cis-aziridines. (+)-Chloramphenicol was generated in 4 steps from commercial starting materials. A tentative mechanism ...[more]