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Gil Ordóñez, Marta Maestro Fernández, Alicia Ortega, Pablo Jambrina, Pablo G. Andrés García, José María Producción Científica Chiral pyrazolones with a spirocyclic centre at the C4-position are widely found in a large family of medically relevant compounds. In recent years, organocatalysis, particularly that performed with quiral N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), has allowed the enantioselective synthesis of these spirocyclic compounds despite its inherent difficulty. In this work, we describe the fully diastereo- and highly enantioselective synthesis of novel spirocyclic pyrazolone γ-butyrolactones via NHC-catalysed [3+2] annulation reaction of enals and 1H-pyrazol-4,5-diones. To understand the catalytic mechanism and origin of stereoselectivity, electronic structure calculations were carried out. After considering various pathways, we concluded that stereoselectivity-determining step is the formation of the lactone that proceeds after addition of the NHC derived homoenolate to the electrophilic carbonyl group of pyrazolin-4,5-dione. Our calculations predict that the free energy barrier is lower for the (RS) product, which is also the main product experimentally obtained. 2021-12-09 2021-12-09 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022, vol. 9, n. 2, p. 420-427 2052-4110 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50776 10.1039/D1QO01462E eng https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2022/QO/D1QO01462E info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Royal Society of Chemistry