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Spin-Center Shift-Enabled Direct Enantioselective ?-Benzylation of Aldehydes with Alcohols.

ABSTRACT: Nature routinely engages alcohols as leaving groups, as DNA biosynthesis relies on the removal of water from ribonucleoside diphosphates by a radical-mediated "spin-center shift" (SCS) mechanism. Alcohols, however, remain underused as alkylating agents in synthetic chemistry due to their low reactivity in two-electron pathways. We report herein an enantioselective ?-benzylation of aldehydes using alcohols as alkylating agents based on the mechanistic principle of spin-center shift. This strategy harnesses the dual activation modes of photoredox and organocatalysis, engaging the alcohol by SCS and capturing the resulting benzylic radical with a catalytically generated enamine. Mechanistic studies provide evidence for SCS as a key elementary step, identify the origins of competing reactions, and enable improvements in chemoselectivity by rational photocatalyst design.

SUBMITTER: Nacsa ED

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5896313 | biostudies-other | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Spin-Center Shift-Enabled Direct Enantioselective α-Benzylation of Aldehydes with Alcohols.

Nacsa Eric D ED MacMillan David W C DWC

Journal of the American Chemical Society 20180222 9

Nature routinely engages alcohols as leaving groups, as DNA biosynthesis relies on the removal of water from ribonucleoside diphosphates by a radical-mediated "spin-center shift" (SCS) mechanism. Alcohols, however, remain underused as alkylating agents in synthetic chemistry due to their low reactivity in two-electron pathways. We report herein an enantioselective α-benzylation of aldehydes using alcohols as alkylating agents based on the mechanistic principle of spin-center shift. This strategy ...[more]

PMID: 29400958

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