Chiral Lewis acid catalysis in a visible light-triggered cycloaddition/rearrangement cascade
Simone Stegbauer, Christian Jandl, Thorsten Bach
Abstract
Chiral Lewis acid catalysis enables the formation of enantioenriched polycyclic benzoisochromenes 2 from simple 1-naphthaldehydes 1 in an efficient cascade process triggered by a visible light-initiated ortho photocycloaddition.
Topics & Concepts
CascadeCascade reactionChemistryCatalysisDominoCycloadditionYield (engineering)MoleculePhotochemistryLewis acids and basesCombinatorial chemistryStereochemistryOrganic chemistryMaterials scienceMetallurgyChromatographyRadical Photochemical ReactionsOxidative Organic Chemistry ReactionsCatalytic C–H Functionalization Methods