1,4-addition of organoboron

The first example of asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition of organoboron reagents to enones was described in 1998 by Hayashi and Miyaura. Significant progress has been made in the past few years. This asymmetric addition reaction can be carried out in aqueous solvent for a broad range of substrates, such as a,/ -unsaturated ketones, esters, amides, phosphonates, nitroalkenes. The enantioselectivity is always very high (in most cases over 90% ee). This asymmetric transformation provides the best method for the enantioselective introduction of aryl and alkenyl groups to the / -position of these electron-deficient olefins. 

Nitroalkenes are good candidates for the rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-addition of organoboronic acids. Hayashi et al. reported that the reaction of 1-nitrocyclohexene with phenylboronic acid in the presence of rhodium/ -BINAP catalyst gave 99% ee of 2-phenyl-1-nitrocyclohexane (Scheme 38).117... 

Figure 3.15. Scope of Rh/(S)-binap-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-addition of organoboronic acids to a,P-enones.

Senda, T. Ogasawara, M. Hayashi, T. Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Organoboron Reagents to 5,6-Dihydro-2(lH)-pyridinones. Asymmetric Synthesis of 4-Aryl-2-piperidinones. ]. Org. Chem. 2001, 66, 6852-6856. 

Hayashi, T. Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Organoboronic Acids and their Derivatives to Electron-Deficient Olefins, Synlett 2001, 879-887. 

Recently, Hayashi reported the details of a rhodium/diene-catalyzed 1,4-addition of organoboron reagents to quinone monoketals 108, which provides a rapid access to a-arylated tetralones in high yield and stereoselectivity [94]. 

Scheme 5.34 Ruthenium-catalyzed 1,4-addition of organoboronic adds to a,p-unsaturated ketones, as described by Shintani and Hayashi [92].

Hayashi, T. Takahashi, M. Takaya, Y. Qgasawara, M. Catalytic Cycle of Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric 1,4-Addition of Organoboronic Acids. Arylrhodium, Oxa-Jt-allylrhodimn, and Hydroxorhodimn Intermediates. /. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002,124,5052-5058. 

Organoboron reagents ate pariictdarly well suited for 1,4-additions of aryl and vinyl groups to enones. Hayasbi et al. developed a highly enantioselective RliQ)/ BlNAP-catalyzed 1,4-addilion of pbenylbotonic add lo cyclic and acyclic enones [24] fSclieme 7.5) and 1-alkenylpbospbonales [25]. 

The rhodium-catalyzed addition of aryl- and 1-alkenylboronic acids tooc, unsaiurated ketones, aldehydes, esters, and amides gave the conjugate 1,4-addition products in high yidds. The ifaodium(I) complexes also catalyzed the 1,2-addition of organoboronic acids to aldehydes or N-sulfonyl aldimines. The dficiency of protocol was demonstrated in the asymmetric addition reactions of organoboronic acids in the presoice of a rhodium(acacV BINAP complex. 

Addition reactions of organoboronic acids to electron-deficient alkenes were found to be catalyzed by rhodium(i)931 or dicationic palladium(n) complexes.932,933 The reaction proceeding through the transmetallation to a transition metal has been proved to be a general technique for a wide range of selective carbon-carbon bond formation via 1,4-addition to a,/ -unsaturated ketones, aldehydes, esters, and amides, and the 1,2-addition to aldehydes and imines (Equation (217)).934... 

The metal-catalyzed addition reaction of organoboron compounds have not yet been well developed, but die reaction of NaBPh4 or arylboronic acids with enones in the presence of Pd(OAc)2 and NaOAc or SbCL, was recently reported by Uemura and his coworkers.2 The reaction was proposed to proceed through the oxidative addition of the C-B bond to the Pd(0) species however, another probable process, the transmetalation to transition metals, may allow a similar catalytic transformation by the use of organoboronic acids. We report here the 1,4-addition reaction of organoboronic acids to oc, J-unsaturated ketones or esters and 1,2-addition to aldehydes or imines catalyzed by a (acac)Rh(CHj=CH2)2/phosphine complex, which may involve the B-Rh transmetalation as the key step. 

Darses and co-workers have published a series of papers on the synthesis of stereo-defined trisubstituted alkenes by the coupling of readily available unreactive MBH adducts with either organoboronic acids or potassium tri-fluoro(organo)borates in the presence of a rhodium complex via a reaction pathway involving a 1,4-addition/p-hydroxy elimination mechanism. Compared with the aforementioned Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction, this reaction does not need the activation of the hydroxyl group with acetate or carbonate therefore it is more desirable, particularly in terms of atom economy. For the MBH adducts derived from methyl acrylates, the initial reported catalyst, [ Rh-(cod)Cl 2], was active at 50 °C for boronic acids and at 70 °C... 

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