Enantioselective Organocatalytic Sulfenylation of β-Naphthols

摘要

An enantioselective sulfenylation of β-naphthols has been developed for the first time using a newly synthesized cinchona-derived thiourea as the catalyst and N -(arylthio) succinimide (or phthalimide) as an electrophilic sulfur source. Various enantioenriched naphthalenones with an S-containing all-substituted stereocenter were prepared via a dearomatization strategy under mild reaction conditions.