Stereospecific Radical Bromination of ß‐Aryl Alcohols with Thiourea Additives Through A Serendipitous Discovery of A 1,2‐Aryl Migration

Habib Assy, Uttam K. Mishra, Tom Rösler, Raman Khurana, N. Gabriel Lemcoff, Ofer Reany

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תקציר

The development of new protocols for stereospecific and stereoselective halogenation transformations by mild reaction conditions is a highly desirable research target for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Following the straightforward methodology for directly transforming a wide scope of alcohols to alkyl bromides and chlorides using substoichiometric amounts of thioureas and N-halo succinimides (NXS) as a halogen source in a single step, we noticed that in apolar solvents bromination of chiral secondary alcohols did not produce the expected racemates. In this study, the stereochemical aspects of the bromination reaction were examined. Surprisingly, bromination of (±)-threo- or (±)-erythro-3-phenyl-2-butanols revealed a single diastereomeric brominated product with retention of configuration. The scope of these reactions was expanded on several β-aryl alcohols. During these studies, an unexpected stereospecific 1,2-migration of the phenyl group was shown to take place. The proposed mechanism of the 1,2-phenyl migration involves the formation of a spiro[2,5]octadienyl radical, which is then attacked by a bromide radical at any of the two cyclopropyl positions anti to the phenyl position, leading to products that retain the stereoisomeric configuration of the starting material.

שפה מקוריתאנגלית
עמודים (מ-עד)e202403831
כתב עתChemistry - A European Journal
מזהי עצם דיגיטלי (DOIs)
סטטוס פרסוםפורסם - 15 ינו׳ 2025

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