Asymmetric addition reactions

Heathcock, C. H. The aldol addition reaction. Asymmetric Synth. 1984, 3,111-212. 

Addition reactions. Asymmetric allyl transfer from allyl boronates to A-acyl imines is assisted by (5)-3,3 -diphenyl-BINOL Alkenyldimethoxyboranes react with conjugated carbonyl compounds with excellent enantioselectivity in the presence of a chiral 3,3 -diiodo-BINOL. ... 

Similarly, the two faces at a trigonal earbon in a molecule containing a stereogenic center are diastereotopie. Both ehiral and achiral reactants can distinguish between these diastereotopie faces. Many examples of diastereotopie transformations of sueh eompounds are known. One of the cases that has been examined elosely is addition reactions at a trigonal center adjacent to an asymmetric carbon. Particular attention has been given to the case of nucleophilie addition to carbonyl groups. 

Asymmetric syntheses of heterocycles by conjugate addition reactions 98EJO2051. 

Quite a number of asymmetric thiol conjugate addition reactions are known [84], but previous examples of enantioselective thiol conjugate additions were based on the activation of thiol nucleophiles by use of chiral base catalysts such as amino alcohols [85], the lithium thiolate complex of amino bisether [86], and a lanthanide tris(binaphthoxide) [87]. No examples have been reported for the enantioselective thiol conjugate additions through the activation of acceptors by the aid of chiral Lewis acid catalysts. We therefore focussed on the potential of J ,J -DBFOX/ Ph aqua complex catalysts as highly tolerant chiral Lewis acid catalyst in thiol conjugate addition reactions. 

With the success in Lewis acid-catalyzed thiol conjugate addition reactions mentioned above, we further tried to apply the J ,J -DBFOX/Ph-nickel(II) aqua complex catalyst to the catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of hydroxyl-amines [88, 89]. However, after some preliminary examinations, we found that... 

The l ,J -DBFOX/Ph-transition metal aqua complex catalysts should be suitable for the further applications to conjugate addition reactions of carbon nucleophiles [90-92]. What we challenged is the double activation method as a new methodology of catalyzed asymmetric reactions. Therein donor and acceptor molecules are both activated by achiral Lewis amines and chiral Lewis acids, respectively the chiral Lewis acid catalysts used in this reaction are J ,J -DBFOX/Ph-transition metal aqua complexes. 

Asymmetric otganocnppet reacti addition reaction. Altliougli bigli lected sLibsttate/cuprate systems, 1 asymmetric... 

Compared to tlie intensive and successfrd development of copper catalysts for asymmetric 1,4-addition reactions, discussed in Cbapt. 7, catalytic asymmetric al-lylic substitution reactions have been tlie subjects of only a few studies. Diflictilties arise because, in tlie asymmetric y substitution of unsymniettical allylic electto-pb des, tlie catalyst bas to be capable of controlling botli tegioselectivity and enan-tioselectivity. 

Azirines (three-membered cyclic imines) are related to aziridines by a single redox step, and these reagents can therefore function as precursors to aziridines by way of addition reactions. The addition of carbon nucleophiles has been known for some time [52], but has recently undergone a renaissance, attracting the interest of several research groups. The cyclization of 2-(0-tosyl)oximino carbonyl compounds - the Neber reaction [53] - is the oldest known azirine synthesis, and asymmetric variants have been reported. Zwanenburg et ah, for example, prepared nonracemic chiral azirines from oximes of 3-ketoesters, using cinchona alkaloids as catalysts (Scheme 4.37) [54]. 

In most cases of diastereoselective nucleophilic addition reactions where achiral organometallic reagents are added to chiral carbonyl compounds, the chirulity inducing asymmetric center is in close vicinity to the newly created center and cannot be removed without the loss of chirality of either the inducing center or the newly formed center. This type of reaction is very useful in propagating chirality in a molecule from one center to an adjacent one, or in immolative processes. 

It is interesting to speculate that asymmetric induction may be the consequence of the exo anomeric effect, a stereoelectronic effect that favors the conformation 5 that places the aglycone O-C bond antiperiplanar to the pyran C(1) —C(2) bond7fi. Related asymmetric induction has also been observed in aldehyde addition reactions of the related, but racemic, pinacol (Z)-y-(tetrahydropyranyloxy)allylboronate49. As indicated in the examples above, however, the level of diastereoselectivity is modest and the only application in asymmetric synthesis is Wuts exo-brevicomin synthesis75. 

The configuration at sulfur is mainly responsible for the sense of asymmetric induction. It is of interest to note that butylcopper and lithium dibutylcuprate undergo addition reactions in the opposite stereochemical sense. The adducts can be converted to chiral /i-disubstituted carboxylic acids1. 

The first five telomers (n = 1 - 5) were isolated and identificated. The authors showed that telomers T2 and T3 are preferentially formed in one stereoisomeric form (with minor amounts of other possible isomers), i.e. the radical addition reaction makes it possible to perform asymmetric control at the steps of chain transfer and chain growth. The partial chain transfer constants Cn are given in this work, which are within the range from 0.3 to 0.5 for radicals C2-C5. We consider... 

Allylic silanes react with aldehydes, in the presence of Lewis acids, to give an allyl-substituted alcohol. In the case of benzylic silanes, this addition reaction has been induced with Mg(C104)2 under photochemical conditions. The addition of chiral additives leads to the alcohol with good asymmetric induction. In a related reaction, allylic silanes react with acyl halides to produce the corresponding carbonyl derivative. The reaction of phenyl chloroformate, trimethylallylsilane, and AICI3, for example, gave phenyl but-3-enoate. ... 

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