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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Advances, 13(9), 2023

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1645

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Regiodivergent catalytic asymmetric dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclic heteroaromatics

Journal article published in 2023 by Lei Peng ORCID, Zhen Zeng ORCID, Kai Li ORCID, Yidong Liu ORCID, Yu Lan ORCID, Hailong Yan ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The catalytic dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclic heteroaromatics including benzofurans and indoles provides rapid access to functionalized heterocyclic molecules. Because of the inherent stereoelectronic differences, the furan or pyrrole nucleus is more prone to dearomative cycloaddition than the benzene ring. Here, we realized a geometry-based differentiation approach for achieving C6-C7 and C7-C7a regioselectivity. The rotationally restricted σ bond at C7 position respectively placed the C6-C7 and C7-C7a sites of benzofurans or indoles in an optimal spatial orientation toward the axially chiral heterodiene, thus affording two enantioenriched polycyclic compounds from a single racemic heterobiaryl atropisomers. Calculation results of density functional theory interpreted the mechanism of this parallel kinetic resolution. The bioactivity of the dearomatized products was evaluated in cancer cell lines with certain compounds exhibiting interesting biological activities.