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    Chen, Chien-Tien; Su, Yu-Cheng; Lu, Chia-Hao; Lien, Chien-I; Hung, Shiang-Fu; Hsu, Chan-Wei; Agarwal, Rachit; Modala, Ramuasagar; Tseng, Hung-Min; Tseng, Pin-Xuan; Fujii, Ryoma; Kawashima, Kyohei; Mori, Seiji

    ACS catalysis, 06/2021, Letnik: 11, Številka: 12
    Journal Article

    Asymmetric three-component 1,2-oxytrifluoromethylations of styrenes were explored by using N-oxyphthalimide (NOPI) as the resulting benzylic radical anchor after cross-coupling by a CF3 radical under the catalyses of chiral N-salicylidene-derived oxovanadium­(V) complexes. Among the 15 different solvents and 15 different catalysts examined, the best scenarios were in i-PrOH with C3-tert-butyl or C3-fluoro-/2,5-dimethylphenyl-substituted vanadyl catalysts that led to the corresponding complementary S and R products in up to 88% yields and 87/86% ees, respectively, with further enrichment to at least 94% ee after a single recrystallization. The ccontrol α-(2-phenylcyclopropyl)­styrene was tested to prove the asymmetric event involving the benzylic radical species. DFT computations showed that the SOMO of the benzylic radical is placed in a way to orient the CF3CH2 group away from the tert-butyl group in the salicylidene-l-tert-butylglycinate template by interacting with the N-oxygen atom of NOPI bound to the vanadium center with a bimolecular homolytic substitution (SH2) type mechanism. The enantioselectivity profile was dominated by several noncovalent interactions between the intermediary vanadium­(NOPI) complex and the resulting benzylic radical.