Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
Improved Methodology for the Preparation of Chiral Amines
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hydrogen bonding, is chiral and its reaction with <strong>the</strong> Hantzsch dihydropyridine could give an<br />
enantiomerically enriched amine and pyridine. After screening different phosphoric acid<br />
catalysts, catalyst 9 was found to be <strong>the</strong> best catalyst <strong>for</strong> this reaction and 1.0 mol% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
catalyst resulted in 93% ee <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> product with an excellent yield <strong>of</strong> 96% (scheme 3.19). [59]<br />
OMe<br />
OMe<br />
O<br />
+PMPNH 2<br />
-H 2 O<br />
N<br />
HN<br />
X*<br />
EtOOC<br />
N<br />
H<br />
COOEt<br />
HN<br />
PMP<br />
H<br />
HX*<br />
H 2 N<br />
H<br />
X*<br />
OMe<br />
EtOOC<br />
N<br />
COOEt<br />
Scheme 3.18. Mechanism <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chiral</strong> Brønsted Acid Catalysed Reductive Amination.<br />
O<br />
9(1mol%),toluene,35 o C,71h, 98%<br />
HN PMP<br />
EtOOC<br />
COOEt<br />
N<br />
H<br />
(1.4 equiv)<br />
93% ee<br />
i-Pr<br />
i-Pr<br />
O<br />
O<br />
i-Pr<br />
P<br />
O i-Pr OH<br />
i-Pr i-Pr<br />
9<br />
Scheme 3.19. Organocatalytic Reductive Amination Developed by List.<br />
List also investigated <strong>the</strong> reductive amination <strong>of</strong> aldehydes. He proposed that under <strong>the</strong><br />
conditions <strong>of</strong> reductive amination an α-branched aldehyde substrate would undergo a fast<br />
racemization in <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> amine and acid catalyst via an imine/enamine<br />
tautomerization. The reductive amination <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two imine enantiomers would <strong>the</strong>n<br />
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