Ansa-metallocenes chiral

Enantioselective hydrozirconation using, for example, chiral ansa-metallocenes [242] remain largely unexplored. 

A scandium complex, Cp ScH, also polymerizes ethylene, but does not polymerize propylene and isobutene [125]. On the other hand, a linked amidocyclo-pentadienyl complex [ Me2Si( / 5-C5 Me4)( /1 -NCMe3) Sc(H)(PMe3)] 2 slowly polymerizes propylene, 1-butene, and 1-pentene to yield atactic polymers with low molecular weight (Mn = 3000-7000) [126, 115]. A chiral, C2-symmetric ansa-metallocene complex of yttrium, [rac-Me2Si(C5H2SiMe3-2-Buf-4)2YH]2, polymerizes propylene, 1-butene, 1-pentene, and 1-hexene slowly over a period of several days at 25°C to afford isotactic polymers with modest molecular weight [114]. 

When a chiral ansa-type zirconocene/MAO system was used as the catalyst precursor for polymerization of 1,5-hexadiene, an main-chain optically active polymer (68% trans rings) was obtained84-86. The enantioselectivity for this cyclopolymerization can be explained by the fact that the same prochiral face of the olefins was selected by the chiral zirconium center (Eq. 12) [209-211]. Asymmetric hydrogenation, as well as C-C bond formation catalyzed by chiral ansa-metallocene 144, has recently been developed to achieve high enantioselectivity88-90. This parallels to the high stereoselectivity in the polymerization. 

Chiral C2-symmetric ansa-metallocenes, also referred to as bridged metallocenes, find extensive use as catalysts that effect asymmetric C—C bond-forming transformations [4]. In general, bridged ethylene(bis(tetrahydroindenyl))zirconocene dichloride ((ebthi)ZrCl2) 1 or its derived binaphtholate ((ebthi)Zrbinol) 2 [5] and related derivatives thereof have been extensively utilized in the development of a variety of catalytic asymmetric alkene alkylations. 

Collins and co-workers have performed studies in the area of catalytic enantioselective Diels—Alder reactions, in which ansa-metallocenes (107, Eq. 6.17) were utilized as chiral catalysts [100], The cycloadditions were typically efficient (-90% yield), but proceeded with modest stereoselectivities (26—52% ee). The group IV metal catalyst used in the asymmetric Diels—Alder reaction was the cationic zirconocene complex (ebthi)Zr(OtBu)-THF (106, Eq. 6.17). Treatment of the dimethylzirconocene [101] 106 with one equivalent of t-butanol, followed by protonation with one equivalent of HEt3N -BPh4, resulted in the formation of the requisite chiral cationic complex (107),... 

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The C2-symmetric ansa metallocenes possess a C2 axis of symmetry, are chiral, and their two active sites are both chiral. The two sites are equivalent (homotopic) and enantioselective for the same monomer enantioface. The result is isoselective polymerization. C2 ansa metallocenes are one of two classes of initiators that produce highly isotactic polymer, the other class being the C ansa metallocenes (Sec. 8-5e). C2 ansa metallocenes generally produce the most isoselective polymerizations. 

In catalysts obtained from chiral stereorigid metallocenes of class III with C2 molecular symmetry (helical), such as racemic isomers of ansa-metallocenes, e.g. rac.-(IndCH2)2MtX2 (Table 3.1) and rac.-(ThindCH2)2MtX2, the two coordination positions available for the incoming monomer and the growing... 

The obtained chiral ansa-metallocenes, after activation with methylaluminox-ane, were indeed found, in independent studies by Ewen [22] and by Kaminsky and Kiilper [101], to polymerise propylene and higher y-oldins to produce highly isotactic polymers [30]. 

By using chiral organolanthanide ansa-metallocenes for methyl methacrylate polymerisation, highly stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate)s were obtained a syndiotactic or isotactic polymer could be synthesised, depending on the kind of metallocene catalyst [536],... 

Because ansa metallocenes had been found to be effective polymerization catalysts, exploration of chelating bis(arylimido) complexes has been undertaken, typical examples being (48-51). In general, these have distorted octahedral structures with mo-n in the range 1.73-1.75A and ZMo=N-R in the range 155-162°. Complex (51), which is chiral, catalyzed the kinetic resolution of styrene oxide with ane.e of 30%. 

Several titanium ani a-metallocenes have been prepared which incorporate chiral centers in the backbone as a way of influencing the stereoselectivity of ansa-metallocene formation. Chiral backbones that have been... 

Chiral C2-symmetric early-late complexes can be obtained via similar complexation starting from bis phosphinoenolato zirconocene. Assembly of phenyl-substituted phospha-metallocene and [(binap)Rh(cod)] + leads also to a chiral hetero dinuclear complex. The unprecedented thermal room temperature isomerization ofZr derivative was exploited to achieve its dynamic resolution producing enantiopure bimetallic ansa metallocene. ... 

Cationic ansa metallocenes can be utilized as chiral catalysts in Diels-Alder reactions. For example, in the presence of the cationic zirconocene complex [(ebthi)Zr(Ot-Bu) thf]+, the [4 + 2] cycloaddition of acrolein and cyclopentadiene proceeds efficiently to afford endo and exo cycloadducts (equation 71). In reactions in which methyl acrylate is used as the dienophile, cycloadditions occur with lower levels of enan-tioselection (23% ee), but with significantly higher degrees of diastereoselectivity (17 1 endo, exo). In these processes, recent studies demonstrated the great influence of chiral metallocene structure and the dramatic solvent effect. ... 

The efficacy of ansa metallocenes as polymerization catalysts has stimulated research into chelating bis(arylimido) complexes, including those with chiral ligands. The first of these, (62), and derivatives (63) and (64) (n= 1, 2) were reported by Gibson et al. in 1996.121 The complexes display distorted octahedral structures with d(Mo=N), Z(Mo=N—C) and Z(N=Mo=N) in the ranges 1.725-1.754 A, 155-162° and 100-103°, respectively. Complexes featuring strained, seven-membered, unsymmetrical ansa bis(imido ligands), e.g., (65), have also been reported.113 The first chiral bis(imido)-MoVI complex, C2-symmetric (66), catalyzes the kinetic resolution of styrene oxide and enantioselective trimethylsilylcyanation of benzaldehyde with 30% and 20% e.e., respectively.151... 

Cj-symmetric structures having one of the two Cp ligands endowed with bilateral symmetry (such as fluorenyl) have several synthetic advantages, the main being the absence of a meso-isomer (Figure 28). We recall here that the latter is instead formed as the undesired byproduct in the synthesis of the C2-symmetric chiral ansa-metallocenes. 

Brintzinger and coworkers produced a titanium complex with a binaphthyl linked ansa metallocene ligand [56[. Upon activation with nBuLi, this complex catalyzed the reductions of B and 2 phenyl 1 pyrroline in 76 and 98% ee, respectively. Titanium catalysts with chiral amido cyclopentadienyl ligands have also been reported, but were considerably less stereoselective than the metallocene based ones [57]. 

A very different type of catalyst was developed by Buchwald et al. [6] the chiral Ti complex with Brintzinger s ansa-metallocene ligand (ebthi) is extraordinarily effective for the enantioselective hydrogenation of cychc imines with high optical yields (>97% ee). Unfortunately, the activity and productivity of this Ti catalyst are relatively low compared to Rh- and Ir-diphosphine catalysts. The stereochemical outcome of the reaction can be predicted by straightforward steric arguments. Acyclic imines are reduced with lower enantioselectivity, probably due to isomerization problems and the presence of syn/anti isomers. Studies with multifunctional imines or in presence of other substrates revealed that the scope of the Ti-ebthi catalyst is rather Hmited. Partial or total catalyst inhibition is observed in presence of most functional groups, expect amines, alcohols, acetals, and halides [39]. 

According to an early hypothesis21, stereoregular isotactic polymerization requires the presence of chirality within the catalyst. Thus, with achiral metallocenes mostly atactic polymers are obtained. Chiral ansa-metallocenes with substituted cyclopentadienyl ligands, or especially with indenyl and tetrahydroindenyl ligands, are effective in stereoselective polymer synthesis. 

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