Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Addition of Thiophenols to Oxabenzonorbornadienes

Sifeng Li; Zhiwu Lu; Ling Meng; Jun Wang

doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02592

Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Addition of Thiophenols to Oxabenzonorbornadienes

Sifeng Li, Zhiwu Lu, Ling Meng, Jun Wang^*

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Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

A highly efficient asymmetric ring addition reaction of oxabenzonorbornadienes with thiophenols using an iridium/(S)-xyl-binap catalyst is developed. This catalyst system overcomes catalyst poisoning and background reactions and allows the formation of exclusive thiol addition products in high yields (up to 97% yield) with excellent enantioselectivities (up to 98% ee). Particularly noteworthy is that no competitive ring-opened side products are observed. X-ray crystal structure analysis confirmed the adduct is solely in the exo-configuration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5276–5279
Number of pages	4
Journal	Organic Letters
Volume	18
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02592
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2016

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