Volume 54, Issue 8 pp. 2361-2365
Communication

Ligand-Controlled Regiodivergent Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation Reaction to Access α,α-Difluoroketones

Ming-Hsiu Yang

Ming-Hsiu Yang

Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive, Lawrence, KS 66045 (USA)

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Douglas L. Orsi

Douglas L. Orsi

Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive, Lawrence, KS 66045 (USA)

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Prof. Dr. Ryan A. Altman

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Ryan A. Altman

Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive, Lawrence, KS 66045 (USA)

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First published: 07 January 2015
Citations: 81

We thank the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (5207-DNI1) and the Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research (701-HF12) for support of this research. Additional financial support from the University of Kansas, Office of the Provost, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the General Research Fund (2301795) is gratefully acknowledged. Support for the NMR instrumentation was provided by an NSF Academic Research Infrastructure Grant (9512331), an NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant (9977422), and an NIH Center Grant (P20 GM103418).

Graphical Abstract

α,α-Difluoroketones are useful building blocks for the synthesis of therapeutics and probes for chemical biology. To access this substructure, complementary palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation reactions were developed to provide linear and branched α-allyl-α,α-difluoroketones. The regioselectivity was enabled by the fluorine substituents of the substrate and controlled by the ligand.

Abstract

α,α-Difluoroketones possess unique physicochemical properties that are useful for developing therapeutics and probes for chemical biology. To access the α-allyl-α,α-difluoroketone substructure, complementary palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative allylation reactions were developed to provide linear and branched α-allyl-α,α-difluoroketones. For these orthogonal processes, the fluorination pattern of the substrate enabled the ligands to dictate the regioselectivity of the transformations.

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