Catalytic Asymmetric Access to Structurally Diverse -Alkoxy Amines via a Kinetic Resolution Strategy.

Chiral -alkoxy amines are increasingly vital substrates in bioscience. However, asymmetric synthetic strategies for these compounds remain scarce. Catalytic kinetic resolution represents an attractive approach to prepare structurally diverse enantiopure -alkoxy amines, which has remained elusive due to the notably reduced nucleophilicity of the nitrogen atom together with the low bond dissociation energies of labile NO-C and N-O bonds. We here report a general kinetic resolution of -alkoxy amines through chemo- and enantioselective oxygenation. The mild and green titanium-catalyzed approach features broad substrate scope (55 examples), noteworthy functional group compatibility, high catalyst turnover number (up to 5200), excellent selectivity factor ( > 150), and scalability.