Asymmetric synthesis of 4H-1,3-oxazines: enantioselective reductive cyclization of N-acylated β-amino enones with trichlorosilane catalyzed by chiral Lewis bases?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2009-05-11 DOI: 10.1039/B905102C

Abstract

N-Acylated β-amino enones reductively cyclize by treatment with trichlorosilane and a chiral Lewis base catalyst to afford optically active 4H-1,3-oxazines, which can be transformed to other chiral compounds without racemization.

Graphical abstract: Asymmetric synthesis of 4H-1,3-oxazines: enantioselective reductive cyclization of N-acylated β-amino enones with trichlorosilane catalyzed by chiral Lewis bases
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