Catalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Sulfenylation of Diarylthiazolidin-2,4-diones
Abstract
This work reports the first application of diarylthiazolidin-2,4-diones as nucleophiles in asymmetric catalysis. By utilizing chiral amino acid-based (thio)urea–tertiary amines as the catalysts, we successively established asymmetric conjugate addition to nitroolefins and sulfenylation to N-(sulfanyl)-succinimides of diarylthiazolidin-2,4-diones. Two series of biologically important 5-aryl-5-substituted thiazolidin-2,4-diones were obtained with high enantio- and diastereoselectivities (up to >99% ee and >19:1 dr). The enantioenriched adducts were found to show satisfactory anticancer activities against three different cancer cell lines using the MTT assay. All of these successes depended on the development of a general and expedient synthetic strategy to provide diverse 5H-thiazolidin-2,4-diones.
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