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J Org Chem. 2020 Jun 19;85(12):7976-7985. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00796. Epub 2020 Jun 02.

Diastereoselective Synthesis of Enantioenriched Trifluoromethylated Ethylenediamines and Isoindolines Containing Two Stereogenic Carbon Centers by Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation Using HFC-23.

The Journal of organic chemistry

Kazuki Hirano, Takuya Saito, Yamato Fujihira, Daniel M Sedgwick, Santos Fustero, Norio Shibata

Affiliations

  1. Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-5888, Japan.
  2. Departmento de Química Orgánica, Universitat de València, Burjassot 46100, Spain.
  3. Institute of Advanced Fluorine-Containing Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, 688 Yingbin Avenue, Jinhua 321004, China.

PMID: 32421330 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00796

Abstract

Fluoroform, HFC-23, is an industrial byproduct from the synthesis of polytetrafluoroethylene and is a vastly underused resource; however, its physicochemical properties have hindered progress toward synthetic uses. Herein, we describe the use of HFC-23 as a cheap trifluoromethylating agent in two reactions for the highly diastereoselective synthesis of medicinally attractive chiral amines with two stereogenic carbon centers: a base-dependent, stereodivergent nucleophilic addition to synthesize enantioenriched vicinal diamines and a tandem nucleophilic addition/aza-Michael sequence toward enantioenriched isoindolines.

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