Unlocking the Aromatic Cope Rearrangement with Gold(I) Catalysis
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Abstract
The Aromatic Cope Rearrangement (ArCopeR) is a highly challenging chemical reaction under thermal conditions, pri-marily attributed to the loss of aromaticity during the initial [3,3]-sigmatropic step of the process. Such rare transfor-mation typically requires high temperatures and specially engineered 1,5-hexadiene scaffolds, making it impractical for straightforward synthesis of new molecules. Here, we demonstrated that gold(I) catalysts significantly lower the energet-ic barriers associated to ArCopeR, enabling the reaction to be carried out at low temperature (rt to 70°C) in dichloro-ethane or hexafluoroisopropanol with high yields. Specifically, phosphine gold(I) complex ((p-CF3Ph)3PAuOTf) permits for the diastereoselective and divergent aromatic Cope rearrangement from various α-allyl-α’-heteroaromatic γ-lactone or malonate derivatives, while N-heterocyclic carbene gold(I) (IPrAuNTf2) allows the selective dearomatization reaction. Extended quantum mechanics calculations, consistent with experimental observations, reveal that (i) an interweaved transformation occurs instead of the expected ArCope cascade made of formal [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement and [1,3]H-shift steps, and that (ii) van der Waals interactions between the catalyst and substrate contribute to the interrupt-ed ArCope process leading to dearomatize products. This study presents the first catalytic and synthetically useful proto-col to promote ArCopeR under mild conditions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".