Transition metal-catalyzed stereoselective [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of chiral ynamides

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Xuejun Zhang, xzhang@chem.umn.edu and Richard P. Hsung, hsung@chem.umn.edu. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Smith Hall, 207 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
In recent years, ynamides chemistry has emerged as a field of interest for the development of new synthetic methodologies. Here, we report a transition metal catalyzed [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction of chiral ynamides. Upon treatment with Wilkinson's catalyst [20 mol%], a chiral ynamide and an appropriate diene undergoes an intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition in toluene at 110 oC, followed by aromatization, give highly substituted aromatic system in good yields with a modest atropisomeric selectivity, while a chiral ynamide tethered to a 1,3-butadiene undergoes a highly diastereoselective intramolecular cycloaddition to give the respective nitrogen heterocycle in high yields as a single isomer.