Visible-Light Induction/Brønsted Acid Catalysis in Relay for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Tetrahydroquinolines

Org Lett. 2019 Jun 7;21(11):4173-4176. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01354. Epub 2019 May 24.

Abstract

An efficient method merging Brønsted acid catalysis with visible-light induction for the highly enantioselective synthesis of tetrahydroquinolines has been developed. This mild process directly transforms 2-aminoenones into 2-substituted tetrahydroquinolines with excellent enantioselectivities through a relay visible-light-induced cyclization/chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation reaction.

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  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't