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SUBMITTER: Yetra SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9847668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yetra Santhivardhana Reddy SR Schmitt Nathan N Tambar Uttam K UK
Chemical science 20221208 3
We have developed a chiral amine catalyzed enantioselective α-alkylation of aldehydes with amino acid derived pyridinium salts as alkylating reagents. The reaction proceeds in the presence of visible light and in the absence of a photocatalyst <i>via</i> a light activated charge-transfer complex. We apply this photochemical stereoconvergent process to the total synthesis of the lignan natural products (-)-enterolactone and (-)-enterodiol. Mechanistic studies support the ground-state complexation ...[more]