Shelf-stable electrophilic trifluoromethylating reagents: A brief historical perspective

• Norio Shibata,
• Andrej Matsnev and
• Dominique Cahard

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 65, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.65

• % yield [17]. In 2008–2009, we found that chiral nonracemic cinchona alkaloids and guanidines act as Brønsted bases to generate ammonium or guanidinium enolates for the enantioselective electrophilic trifluoromethylation of β-keto esters with Umemoto reagents with good enantioselectivities in the range 60

Asymmetric reactions in continuous flow

• Xiao Yin Mak,
• Paola Laurino and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 19, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.19

• yield observed between each run and without the need for catalyst regeneration, providing 78% total yield of 14 with 88% ee. Cinchona alkaloid derivatives have been featured in a number of solid support-based continuous flow asymmetric reactions. For example, a Wang-resin supported quinine derivative

• also employed in a similar flow system for the asymmetric α-chlorination of acid chlorides (Scheme 7) [31][32]. This cinchona alkaloid derivative served the dual purpose of dehydrohalogenation and asymmetric induction, and was found to be reusable at least up to 100 times, after regeneration each time

C₂-symmetric bisamidines: Chiral Brønsted bases catalysing the Diels- Alder reaction of anthrones

• Deniz Akalay,
• Gerd Dürner,
• Jan W. Bats and
• Michael W. Göbel

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 28, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.28

• exerted by chiral Brønsted bases. Moderate to excellent stereoselectivities of products 3 have been reported using pyrrolidines 4 [1][2], cyclic guanidine 5 [3], or cinchona alkaloids 6 [4] as catalysts. Recently, we could promote this type of cycloaddition by metal-free bisoxazolines 7 in up to 70% ee

Enantioselective nucleophilic difluoromethylation of aromatic aldehydes with Me₃SiCF₂SO₂Ph and PhSO₂CF₂H reagents catalyzed by chiral quaternary ammonium salts

• Chuanfa Ni,
• Fang Wang and
• Jinbo Hu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.21

• catalysts for asymmetric synthesis, cinchona alkaloids and their derivatives can catalyze an amazing array of synthetically important reactions, providing access to chiral products of high enantiopurity [32][33]. Several examples have been reported on the enantioselective incorporation of trifluoromethyl

• difluoromethylation reaction of aromatic aldehydes with Me3SiCF2SO2Ph or PhSO2CF2H in the presence of a cinchona alkaloid-based chiral quaternary ammonium salt. Results and Discussion Enantioselective nucleophilic difluoromethylation of aromatic aldehydes with Me3SiCF2SO2Ph We started our investigation with the

• ), cinchonine (CN), and cinchonidine (CD) at different reaction temperatures. We found the structure of the cinchona alkaloid had some influence on the enantioselectivity. When a cinchonine or quinidine derivative was used, the main isomer was obtained as (+)-3a, and CN 6a was superior to QD 7a. The optimized

DBFOX- Ph/metal complexes: Evaluation as catalysts for enantioselective fluorination of 3-(2-arylacetyl)-2-thiazolidinones

• Takehisa Ishimaru,
• Norio Shibata,
• Dhande Sudhakar Reddy,
• Takao Horikawa,
• Shuichi Nakamura and
• Takeshi Toru

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 16, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.16

• reactions. Stoichiometric approaches based on cinchona alkaloid/Selectfluor® combinations [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32], chiral ligand/metal-catalyzed [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57] or organocatalytic [58