Silver Trifluoromethanesulfonate-Catalyzed Annulation of Propargylic Alcohols with 3-Methyleneisoindolin-1-one

J Org Chem. 2020 Feb 21;85(4):2626-2634. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02533. Epub 2020 Jan 7.

Abstract

A silver-catalyzed formal [3 + 3] annulation of 3-methyleneisoindolin-1-one with alkynol for the synthesis of 1,5-dihydroindolizin-3(2H)-one derivatives is disclosed. The protocol allows practical synthesis of N-heterocyclic scaffolds with a broad scope of functional groups and could be efficiently scaled up to gram scale, which incarnates a potential application of this methodology. In addition, a range of chlorine anion substitution of alkenes can be constructed by adjusting the structure of the alkynol substrates with the use of TMSCl.