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. 2017 Oct 9;56(42):13107-13111.
doi: 10.1002/anie.201705943. Epub 2017 Sep 8.

Nickel-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Silyl Ketene Imines to In Situ Generated Indol-2-ones: Highly Enantioselective Construction of Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters

Jianfeng Zheng  1 , Lili Lin  1 , Li Dai  1 , Qiong Tang  1 , Xiaohua Liu  1 , Xiaoming Feng  1   2
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Nickel-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Silyl Ketene Imines to In Situ Generated Indol-2-ones: Highly Enantioselective Construction of Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters

Jianfeng Zheng et al. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. .

Abstract

The first enantioselective conjugate addition of silyl ketene imines to in situ generated indol-2-ones was performed in the presence of a chiral N,N'-dioxide/NiII catalyst. This method provides efficient access to chiral β-alkyl nitriles bearing congested vicinal all-carbon quaternary stereocenters in up to 90 % yield with 23:1 d.r. and 98 % ee. The products enable facile transformations to chiral pyrroloindoline frameworks and spirocyclohexane oxindole derivatives. A possible transition state was also proposed to explain the origin of the asymmetric induction.

Keywords: 3-bromooxindoles; asymmetric catalysis; conjugate addition; quaternary stereocenters; silyl ketene imines.

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