Hydrogen Bond Direction Enables Palladium-Catalyzed Branch- and Enantioselective Allylic Aminations and Beyond

Abstract

The palladium-catalyzed branch- and enantioselective allylic amination of vinyl benzoxazinones was accomplished through controlling the hydrogen bond direction. This protocol provides a rapid and efficient route for synthesizing an important building block, chiral amino alkene, from widely available aliphatic amines in 64 → 99% yields with up to 99% ee. Furthermore, this transformation and the accompanying products were utilized to develop one-pot reactions through dual catalysis, affording chiral indolines with good synthetic efficiency and excellent enantiocontrol.