The cooperative catalysis of an achiral Lewis base and a chiral N-heterocyclic carbene(NHC)enables a highly enantioselective[4+3]annulation of benzoxazinanones with isatin-derived enals.DMAP serves as a nucleophilic L...The cooperative catalysis of an achiral Lewis base and a chiral N-heterocyclic carbene(NHC)enables a highly enantioselective[4+3]annulation of benzoxazinanones with isatin-derived enals.DMAP serves as a nucleophilic Lewis base to promote decarboxylation of benzoxazinanones,which leads to azaortho-xylylene intermediates that undergo[4+3]annulations with NHC-bound homoenolates.This method breaks the substrate scope limitation of transition-metal-catalyzed variants,thus a broader range of benzoxazinanones are tolerated,and provides a straightforward entry to enantioenriched spirooxindoles in high structural diversity.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.21831007 and 22071229).
文摘The cooperative catalysis of an achiral Lewis base and a chiral N-heterocyclic carbene(NHC)enables a highly enantioselective[4+3]annulation of benzoxazinanones with isatin-derived enals.DMAP serves as a nucleophilic Lewis base to promote decarboxylation of benzoxazinanones,which leads to azaortho-xylylene intermediates that undergo[4+3]annulations with NHC-bound homoenolates.This method breaks the substrate scope limitation of transition-metal-catalyzed variants,thus a broader range of benzoxazinanones are tolerated,and provides a straightforward entry to enantioenriched spirooxindoles in high structural diversity.