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Copper-Phosphido Catalysis: Enantioselective Addition of Phosphines to Cyclopropenes**

  • Brian S. Daniels
  • , Xintong Hou
  • , Stephanie A. Corio
  • , Lindsey M. Weissman
  • , Vy M. Dong
  • , Jennifer S. Hirschi
  • , Shaozhen Nie
  • University of California at Irvine
  • State University of New York Binghamton University
  • GlaxoSmithKline

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Abstract

We describe a copper catalyst that promotes the addition of phosphines to cyclopropenes at ambient temperature. A range of cyclopropylphosphines bearing different steric and electronic properties can now be accessed in high yields and enantioselectivities. Enrichment of phosphorus stereocenters is also demonstrated via a Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation (DyKAT) process. A combined experimental and theoretical mechanistic study supports an elementary step featuring insertion of a CuI-phosphido into a carbon-carbon double bond. Density functional theory calculations reveal migratory insertion as the rate- and stereo-determining step, followed by a syn-protodemetalation.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere202306511
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume62
Issue number36
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 4 2023

Keywords

  • Asymmetric Catalysis
  • Copper-Phosphido
  • Cyclopropenes
  • Hydrophosphination

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