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  • visible light activated catalytic enantioselective β alkylation of α β unsaturated 2 acyl imidazoles using hantzsch esters as radical reservoirs
    Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2018
    Co-Authors: Xiaoqiang Huang, Francisco F De Assis, Midori Akiyama, Ronaldo A Pilli, Eric Meggers
    Abstract:

    An efficient and practical method for the enantioselective β-functionalization of α,β-unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles is described. The method uses a previously devised chiral-at-metal Rhodium catalyst (Λ-RhS, 4 mol %) along with Hantzsch ester derivatives as alkyl radical sources. The Rhodium Complex exerts a dual role as the visible-light-absorbing unit upon substrate binding and as the asymmetric catalyst. The method provides up to quantitative yields with excellent enantioselectivities up to 98% ee and can be classified as a redox-neutral, electron-transfer-catalyzed reaction.

  • direct visible light excited asymmetric lewis acid catalysis of intermolecular 2 2 photocycloadditions
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017
    Co-Authors: Xiaoqiang Huang, Taylor R Quinn, Klaus Harms, Richard D Webster, Lilu Zhang, Olaf Wiest, Eric Meggers
    Abstract:

    A reaction design is reported in which a substrate-bound chiral Lewis acid Complex absorbs visible light and generates an excited state that directly reacts with a cosubstrate in a highly stereocontrolled fashion. Specifically, a chiral Rhodium Complex catalyzes visible-light-activated intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions, providing a wide range of cyclobutanes with up to >99% ee and up to >20:1 d.r. Noteworthy is the ability to create vicinal all-carbon-quaternary stereocenters including spiro centers in an intermolecular fashion.