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A telescoping process involving the consecutive addition of four reagents (trifluorodiazoethane, phosphine, allenyl ester, and acetic acid) into a single reactor was developed for the novel functionalization of allenyl esters. First, new phosphazenes derived from trifluorodiazoethane and phosphines were generated and reacted with allenyl esters to give unexpected α-iminophosphoranes through the creation of C=P, C=N, and C-H bonds at the α-, β-, and γ-carbon atoms, respectively, of the allenyl esters. The α-iminophosphoranes did not react with aldehydes in a classic Wittig reaction, but instead β-enamino esters were obtained. The overall sequence of reactions offered a formal hydrohydrazonation of allenyl esters. The method was extended to other related diazo compounds and applied to the preparation of novel 5-pyrazolone derivatives. Not only is the telescoping process described herein an effective approach for truncating the multistep synthesis, but also each step has been dissected to understand and support the reaction mechanisms., (© 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)

The regio- and stereoselective ring opening of 1,2- and 1,3-sulfamidates with trifluoromethanethiolate anion is reported. This direct introduction of the whole SCF 3 motif is a straightforward synthetic route toward β- and γ-SCF 3 amines and α-amino acid derivatives. The utility of this reaction was further illustrated by incorporation of Cys(S-CF 3 ) into di- and tripeptides.

A simple C 2 -symmetric chiral bisoxazoline is demonstrated to use hydrogen bonding to catalyze an important family of aldol reactions of trifluoroacetaldehyde hemiacetals with various β-carbonyl acids. This reaction is highly enantioselective, delivering chiral nonracemic trifluoromethylated alcohols with excellent optical purity and good isolated yields. This concept of relaying chiral information via a chiral hydrogen-bond acceptor should be applicable to a vast number of organocatalytic processes.

A novel copper-catalyzed one-pot cross-coupling of β-ketoacids with in situ generated trifluorodiazoethane has been developed. This reaction provides a direct and efficient method, in which one C-C bond and one C-O bond were formed in a carbenoid center with concomitant denitrogenation-dehydrogenation-decarboxylation, to afford trifluoromethylated aldol products. In several preliminary experiments, good to high enantioselectivities were also obtained., (© 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.)