Asymmetric Palladium-Catalyzed Aminochlorination of Unactivated Alkenes

Org Lett. 2023 Apr 21;25(15):2685-2690. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.3c00771. Epub 2023 Apr 7.

Abstract

A novel Pd-catalyzed enantioselective aminochlorination of alkenes via a 6-endo cyclization is reported herein, which provides easy access to a wide array of structurally diverse 3-chloropiperidines in good yields with excellent enantioselectivities. Notably, both an electrophilic chlorination reagent (NCS) and the sterically bulky chiral pyridinyl-oxazoline (Pyox) ligand are crucial to the successful reaction.