Allyl rhodium complexes, alkylation

Changing the transition-metal from palladium to rhodium (equation 62) makes possible, in addition to the straight-chain alkylation product (243), the regio- and stereoselective synthesis of amino acid derivatives with a terminal double bond (242), starting from optically active branched allylic substrates 241 (Table 21)" . Remarkably, the substitution products were obtained with high enantiomeric excesses, what might result from a slow isomerization of the intermediary formed allyl rhodium complexes ". 

A combination of rhodium complexes and phosphates promotes a highly regioselective allylic alkylation of unsym-metric allylic esters, where alkylation occurs at the more substituted allylic terminus of the esters (Equation (46)). As Evans and his co-workers reported, both the regio- and stereochemistry of the starting allylic esters are maintained in the allylic alkylated products (Equation (47)). Thus, the rhodium-catalyzed allylic alkylation takes place at the carbon substituted by a leaving group with net retention of configuration. A variety of carbon-centered... 

In 2003, Hayashi and his co-workers found that highly enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed allylic alkylation took place with l-aryl-2-propenyl acetates by using an achiral /3-diketonate ligand for the rhodium complexes in the presence of (diphenylphosphino)binaphthyloxazoline 60b. Fine-tuning of the /3-diketonate part resulted in enhancement in enantioselectivity up to 97% ee (Equation (49)). " ... 

There are also several situations where the metal can act as both a homolytic and heterolytic catalyst. For example, vanadium complexes catalyze the epoxidation of allylic alcohols by alkyl hydroperoxides stereoselectively,57 and they involve vanadium(V) alkyl peroxides as reactive intermediates. However, vanadium(V)-alkyl peroxide complexes such as (dipic)VO(OOR)L, having no available coordination site for the complexation of alkenes to occur, react homolyti-cally.46 On the other hand, Group VIII dioxygen complexes generally oxidize alkenes homolytically under forced conditions, while some rhodium-dioxygen complexes oxidize terminal alkenes to methyl ketones at room temperature. 

The synthesis of the C20—C26 fragment started with a 4-alkylation of methyl aceto-acetate The first stereocentre was introduced by enantioselecuve catalytic hydrogenation with Noyort s (S)-binap rhodium complex (cf p 102f.) Stereoselective Frater-Seebach alkylation with allyl bromide introduced the second stereocentre in 90% yield (cf p 27) Stereospecifid introduction of the stereocentres C24 and C2 was achieved by a chelation controlled addition of an allylstannane to an aldehyde (see p 66f) After some experimentation with Lewis acid catalysts and reaction conditions a single diastereomer of the desired configuration was ob-... 

Tin.—Allyltin compounds, especially under rhodium-complex catalysis, react with acyl chlorides to give allyl ketones or with aryl halides to give allylarenes. Bridgehead alkyl bromides are reduced on photolysis with Bu"3SnH, whilst the system (Bu"3Sn)20-Br2 oxidizes sulphides to sulphoxides. )V-(Alkoxycar-bonyl)amino-acids are obtained upon treatment of cyclic anhydrides with Bu3SnN3 and heating in an alcohol. ... 

Regio- and stereoselective rhodium-catalyzed allylic alkylations of chelated amino add ester enolates have been elaborated. Rhodium complexes in comparison with palladium complexes show a different regioselectivity and have less tendency to isomerize (Scheme 19). ... 

Rhodium.— The kinetics of reaction of Rh(A -C6H5)(CO)(PR3) with alkyl and with benzyl halides indicate a second-order rate law and nucleophilic attack by the rhodium at the a-carbon of the alkyl or benzyl halide. The kinetics of reaction of the above rhodium complex with PR3 = PPhs with allyl halides suggest a more complicated mechanism. ... 

Very often, the kinetics of rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation do not follow the expected first order in alkene concentration and the minus one order in GO pressure. Severe or slight incubation has also been observed. To those skilled in the art, it is known that impurities such as 1,3-alkadienes, enones, and terminal alkynes may be the cause of such behavior. In a mixture of 1-alkenes and butadiene for instance, the latter is much more reactive and will react preferentially with the rhodium hydride catalyst. The allylic rhodium species formed, however, reacts much more sluggishly with carbon monoxide than alkyl rhodium complexes, and thus the catalyst is tied up in this inactive sink. 

Our study on the synthesis, structure and catalytic properties of rhodium and iridium dimeric and monomeric siloxide complexes has indicated that these complexes can be very useful as catalysts and precursors of catalysts of various reactions involving olefins, in particular hydrosilylation [9], silylative couphng [10], silyl carbonylation [11] and hydroformylation [12]. Especially, rhodium siloxide complexes appeared to be much more effective than the respective chloro complexes in the hydrosilylation of various olefins such as 1-hexene [9a], (poly)vinylsiloxanes [9b] and allyl alkyl ethers [9c]. 

The formation of a branched chiral product from the alkylation of monosubstituted substrates is not limited to the catalysis of metals described thus far. Allylic alkylation reactions catalyzed with rhodium [211] and iridium [212] complexes have been shown to occur at the more... 

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