Synthesis of chiral heterocycles by ligand-controlled regiodivergent and enantiospecific Suzuki Miyaura cross-coupling

Jinyue Ding, Taras Rybak and Dennis G. Hall ()
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Jinyue Ding: University of Alberta
Taras Rybak: University of Alberta
Dennis G. Hall: University of Alberta

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Non-aromatic nitrogen- and oxygen-containing heterocycles such as piperidines and pyrans are prevalent components of natural products and pharmaceutical drugs. Although it has been a workhorse as a synthetic method for assembling unsaturated sp2-hybridized substrates, transition metal-catalysed cross-coupling chemistry is traditionally not a suitable approach to prepare chiral non-aromatic heterocycles. Several mechanistic issues hamper the coupling of stereogenic secondary sp3-hybridized carbon-metal centres. Moreover, use of unsymmetrical allylic boronates in the Suzuki Miyaura cross-coupling is further complicated by the possibility of forming two regioisomeric products. Here we address this two-pronged problem and demonstrate that chiral enantiomerically enriched heterocyclic allylic boronates can be coupled with high stereochemical retention with a wide variety of aryl and alkenyl halides to independently afford both regioisomeric 2- and 4-substituted dihydropyrans and dehydropiperidines in high selectivity. A divergent mechanism is proposed where regiochemistry is governed by the nature of the ligands on the palladium catalyst. This scalable method is applied to the efficient preparation of the neuroactive alkaloid anabasine and the antidepressant drug paroxetine.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6474

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