Abstract
A novel "umpolung" intramolecular cyclization of alkynyl imines, in which the electrophilic imine sp2 -carbon formally serves as a nucleophilic site, was developed under Brønsted base catalysis. The reaction involves the unprecedented catalytic generation of α-aminoester enolates from α-iminoesters via the 1,2-addition of the anion of a secondary phosphite to an imine moiety followed by the [1,2]-rearrangement of a dialkoxyphosphoryl moiety from carbon to nitrogen, which is a formal umpolung process, and the intramolecular addition to an alkyne. This is a rare example of a [1,2]-rearrangement of a dialkoxyphosphoryl moiety from carbon to nitrogen to generate an α-amino carbanion and the first catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reaction utilizing the resulting carbanion as a nucleophile.
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