Axially chiral N-arylindoles bearing a stereogenic C—N axis are unique important scaffolds in natural products,advance materials,pharmaceuticals and privileged chiral ligands or catalysts.Herein,we report the direct ...Axially chiral N-arylindoles bearing a stereogenic C—N axis are unique important scaffolds in natural products,advance materials,pharmaceuticals and privileged chiral ligands or catalysts.Herein,we report the direct synthesis of C—N axially chiral N-arylindoles through a Pd-catalyzed free amine-directed atroposelective C—H olefination enabled by a spiro phosphoric acid(SPA)ligand.A wide range of enantioenriched N-aromatic amine indoles were obtained in high yields with good enantioselectivities(35 examples,up to 91%yield and up to 96%ee).The chiral products with free amine group offer an effective functional handle for down-stream diversity-oriented synthesis.展开更多
基金We thank the support from National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1504302,2021YFF0701603)National Natural Science Foundation of China(U22A20388,92256302,21925109 for B.-F.S.,22271250 for T.Z.)+1 种基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(226-2023-00115,226-2022-00224,226-2022-00175)Zhejiang Provincial NSFC(LD22B030003)。
文摘Axially chiral N-arylindoles bearing a stereogenic C—N axis are unique important scaffolds in natural products,advance materials,pharmaceuticals and privileged chiral ligands or catalysts.Herein,we report the direct synthesis of C—N axially chiral N-arylindoles through a Pd-catalyzed free amine-directed atroposelective C—H olefination enabled by a spiro phosphoric acid(SPA)ligand.A wide range of enantioenriched N-aromatic amine indoles were obtained in high yields with good enantioselectivities(35 examples,up to 91%yield and up to 96%ee).The chiral products with free amine group offer an effective functional handle for down-stream diversity-oriented synthesis.