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Title: INVESTIGATING THE DIASTEREOSELECTIVITY OF PHOTOREDOX α-ARYLATION OF AMINES
Authors: Huang, Emily Bau-Chia
Advisors: MacMillan, David
Department: Chemistry
Class Year: 2014
Abstract: This thesis investigates the diastereoselectivity of a novel visible-light photoredox-catalyzed C-H bond activation reaction that introduces aryl groups at the position adjacent to a tertiary amine nitrogen. To examine the diastereoselectivity of the α-arylation of amines reaction, a variety of acyclic amines bearing a chiral center at the β position, two atoms away from nitrogen, were synthesized. The stereochemical outcome of the products of acyclic amine substrates successfully functionalized under the photoredox amine α-arylation conditions were assessed by X-ray crystallography. Under the conditions of fac-Ir(ppy)\(_{3}\) photoredox-catalyzed α-arylation with cyanoarenes, 1,2-disubstituted acyclic amines bearing a hydrogen, methyl group, and TBS-protected alcohol bonded to the chiral center β carbon engage in photocoupling with high diastereoselectivity (>20:1) in moderate to high yield. The excellent levels of diastereoselectivity observed in this reaction may be rationalized using a model of asymmetric induction that considers allylic 1,3-strain in deriving the favored energyminimized conformer. In the A\(_{1,3}\)-minimized molecular conformations, facial discrimination of arene radical anion in approach of the acyclic amine induces the unusually high diastereoselectivity observed in the aminoalcohol case.
Extent: 114 pages
URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019019s266q
Type of Material: Princeton University Senior Theses
Language: en_US
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