Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.137, No.51, 16116-16120, 2015
Ligand-Controlled Divergent C-H Functionalization of Aldehydes with Enynes by Cobalt Catalysts
We describe a highly step and atom economical cobalt-catalyzed cydization of 1,6-enynes with aldehydes to synthesize functionalized pyrrolidines and dihydrofurans with high chemo- and stereoselectivity. The catalytic reaction plausibly proceeds via the cobaltacycle intermediate generated from the reaction of enyne substrate with cobalt catalyst, followed by switchable C-H functionalization of weakly coordinating aldehydes depending on the electronic nature of the ligand.