Asymmetric synthesis of N-bridged [3.3.1] ring systems by phosphonium salt/Lewis acid relay catalysis

Abstract

Optically pure pseudo-natural products (PNPs) bearing N-bridged [3.3.1] ring systerm provide a platform for structure−activity relationship studies, but currently no examples of catalytic asymmetric strategies are available to construct such scaffolds. Here the authors show a general method for constructing such N-bridged [3.3.1] ring systems via a bifunctional phosphonium salt/Lewis acid relay catalysis.