Aromatic kinetic resolution

Dihydronaphthalene is often used as a model olefin in the study of epoxidation catalysts, and very often gives product epoxides in unusually high ee s. In 1994, Jacobsen discovered in his study on the epoxidation of 1,2-dihydronaphthalene that the ee of the epoxide increases at the expense of the minor enantiomeric epoxide.Further investigation led to the finding that certain epoxides, especially cyclic aromatically conjugated epoxides, undergo kinetic resolution via benzylic hydroxylation up to a krei of 28 (Scheme 1.4.9). 

Finally, as an old example of kinetic resolution of racemic mixtures, mention must be made on the report of Kise and Tomiuchi on the significant effect of acetonitrile on the enantioselectivity of different proteases toward the kinetic resolution of aromatic amino acid ethyl esters (5-8). For instance, (l)-DOPA (8) was obtained with 99% ee in the presence of 90% v/v acetonitrile [9]. 

The resolution of racemic ethyl 2-chloropropionate with aliphatic and aromatic amines using Candida cylindracea lipase (CCL) [28] was one of the first examples that showed the possibilities of this kind of processes for the resolution of racemic esters or the preparation of chiral amides in benign conditions. Normally, in these enzymatic aminolysis reactions the enzyme is selective toward the (S)-isomer of the ester. Recently, the resolution ofthis ester has been carried out through a dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) via aminolysis catalyzed by encapsulated CCL in the presence of triphenylphosphonium chloride immobilized on Merrifield resin (Scheme 7.13). This process has allowed the preparation of (S)-amides with high isolated yields and good enantiomeric excesses [29]. 

J. B. A. Ross, W. R. Laws, J. C. Sutherland, A. Buku, P. G. Katsoyannis, I. L. Schwartz, and H. R. Wyssbrod, Linked-function analysis of fluorescence decay kinetics Resolution of side-chain rotamer populations of a single aromatic amino acid in small polypeptides, Photochem. Photobiol. 44, 365-370 (1986). 

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List later reported the asymmetric reductive amination of a wide spectrum of aromatic and aliphatic a-branched aldehydes via dynamic kinetic resolution (Scheme 5.27) [49]. The initial imine condensation product is believed to undergo fast racemization in the presence of the acid catalyst Ih through an imine/enamine tautomerization pathway. Preferential reductive amination of one of the imine enantiomers furnishes the optically pure P-branched amine. 

Makino, K., Hiroki, Y. and Hamada, Y. Dynamic Kinetic Resolution Catalyzed by Ir Axially Chiral Phosphine Catalyst Asymmetric S3mthesis of anti-Aromatic -Hydroxy-ot-amino Acid Esters. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 5784—5785. 

Substituted aliphatic and aromatic a-keto ethers (Scheme 18.5) are also amenable to enantioselective hydrogenation catalyzed by cinchona-modified Pt catalysts.25 However, as opposed to the prochiral ketones discussed earlier, kinetic resolution is observed for these chiral substrates. At conversions of 20A2%, ee s of 91-98% were obtained when starting with a racemic substrate (see Table 18.5). It is somewhat surprising that a-keto ethers without substituent in the a-position, such as methoxy acetone, reacted very slowly or not at all and led to very low enantioselectivities,6 and from the results described earlier for a-ketoacetals, the same is expected if 2 substituents are present. 

This possibility of intimate association of rhodium with the aromatic ring suggests further experiments. A logical extension of asymmetric syntheses involving prochir-al reactants is a kinetic resolution with related chiral reactants under similar conditions. In the one case of hydroboration-amination where this has been applied, it has proved to be very effective. The reactant was prepared directly by a Heck reaction on 1,2-dihydronaphthalene, and under the standard conditions of catalytic hydrobora-tion gave >45% of both enantiomerically pure recovered alkene with (after oxidative work-up) the alcohol of opposite hand, mainly as the trans-isomer. This procedure forms a simple and potentially useful route to pharmacologically active substances, demonstrated by the racemic synthesis shown [105] (Scheme 34). 

Another class of peroxidases which can perform asymmetric sulfoxidations, and which have the advantage of inherently higher stabilities because of their non-heme nature, are the vanadium peroxidases. It was shown that vanadium bromoperoxidase from Ascophyllum nodosum mediates the production of (R)-methyl phenyl sulfoxide with a high 91% enantiomeric excess from the corresponding sulfide with H202 [38]. The turnover frequency of the reaction was found to be around 1 min-1. In addition this enzyme was found to catalyse the sulfoxidation of racemic, non-aromatic cyclic thioethers with high kinetic resolution [309]. 

This suite of cycloketone-converting BVMOs has recently been expanded for enzymes displaying appealing properties in the kinetic resolution of linear ketones. A BVMO from PseudomonasJluorescens turned out to be particularly useful for the conversion of terminal ketones to chiral diol derivatives [42, 69], while PAMO and HAPMO are suitable biocatalysts for the kinetic resolution of aromatic ketones and aldehydes [70]. 

Chromium(salen) catalysts are excellent reagents for the desymmetrization of OT to-epoxides. Thus, tfr-stilbene oxide is converted to the (3, 3 )-aminoalcohol in the presence of catalytic quantities of chromium-salen complex in methylene chloride solution open to the atmosphere. The addition of small quantities of triethylamine was found to dramatically increase enantioselectivities (by almost 25%). This catalytic system also promotes an efficient aminolytic kinetic resolution (AKR) of racemic epoxides with 2-type symmetry (Equation 18) <20040L2173, 1999TL7303>. W fo-Epoxides can be opened with aromatic amines in water in the presence of 1 mol% of an Sc(ni) catalyst ligated to 1.2mol% of a chiral bipyridine ligand <2005OL4593>. 

Generally the reaction of unsaturated aldehydes (aromatic, olefmic and acetylenic) with chiral boronates has provided homoallylic alcohols in low to moderate enantioselectivity [124]. However, the enantioselectivity of the allyl- and 2-bu-tenylborations of benzaldehyde and unsaturated aldehydes is significantly improved when a metal carbonyl complex is utilized as the substrate [131]. For example, the reaction of iron carbonyl-complexed diene 225, chromium carbonyl-complexed benzaldehyde 226 and dicobalt hexacarbonyl-complexed acetylene 227 all give significantly increa.sed allyl and 2-butenylboration selectivities compared to the parent aldehydes (Fig. 10-6). In the case of chiral substrates 225 and 226, these species can be obtained in enantioenriched form by kinetic resolution by use of the asymmetric allylboration reaction. 

Researchers at Celgene developed both (R) and (S) selective transaminases that were active on a range of aliphatic and aromatic ketones and amines [25, 55 57]. Two approaches were employed based upon kinetic resolution, which has been discussed above, and asymmetric synthesis. The asymmetric synthesis approach starts with a... 

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