Abstract

Highly enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of amino acid-derived azomethine ylides with alkenes have been performed, for the first time, under gold-catalysis using ( S a)- or ( R a)-Binap-gold(I) trifluoroacetate complexes, with the cationic Binap-gold acting as a Lewis acid and the counteranion as a base. Maleimides and trans-1,2-bis(phenylsulfonyl)ethylene were reacted with imino esters at room temperature in the absence of a base to afford, in very good yields, the corresponding polysubstituted prolines with total endo-diastereoselection and higher enantioselectivities than the Binap-silver trifluoroacetate complex.

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