Abstract
AbstractHydroxylative dearomatization reactions of phenols (HPD) offer an efficient way to assemble complex, biologically relevant scaffolds. Despite this, enantioselective hydroxylative phenol dearomatizations for the construction of bicyclo[2.2.2]octenones are classically limited to stoichiometric chiral reagents, and a practical, enantioselective catalytic method has remained elusive. Herein, we describe a highly enantioselective, organocatalytic tandem o‐HPD‐[4+2] reaction. Our methodology utilizes a chiral oxaziridinium organocatalyst, that is available in both enantiomeric forms, to afford dearomatized products in high enantioselectivity over a range of phenol substitution patterns. This approach was applied to the highly enantioselective synthesis of (+)‐biscarvacrol (99 : 1 e.r.) and (−)‐bis(2,6‐xylenol) (94 : 6 e.r.). The practicality of our conditions was demonstrated at gram‐scale, using an amine precatalyst, accessible in a single synthetic step.
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