Allylation asymmetric

Asymmetric versions of several Pd-catalyzed reactions have been under active study. Among them, Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylations have been carried out most extensively with much success. Several types of Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylation, by which racemic, meso, and achiral substrates are converted into enan-tiomerically enriched compounds, have been extensively studied using a number of chiral ligands [33]. 

Attention should be paid in the studies on asymmetric allylation to the fact that allylation of malonates is reversible and under thermodynamic control at higher temperature and longer reaction time [34]. For example, the congested malonate 

85 rearranged to 86 under catalysis of Pd. Also the chiral malonate 87 (87 % ee) was racemized to 5 % ee after treatment with Pd(dppb)2 for 165 h [35]. 

A general view of asymmetric allylation is summarized briefly here, and numerous examples of asymmetric syntheses are cited in individual sections. The asymmetric synthesis is classified into the following types based on how the differentiation or enantio-discriminating events occur  

differentiation of the enantiotopic leaving groups of meso compounds  

To accelerate aUylation with aUylstaimanes, addition of a Lewis acid is often required, because coordination of the Lewis acid to the carbonyl can enhance the electrophilicity of the substrate and facilitate the couphng reaction. Since Yamamoto showed that a nonracemic Lewis acid, chiral (acyloxy)borane (CAB), catalyzed enantioselective allylation [73], chiral Lewis acid catalysts have been extensively developed. Above all, easily available chiral compounds such as BINOL and BINAP have been most frequently used as chiral auxiliaries [74], and enantioselective allylations of C-N double bonds and of carbonyl groups have been achieved [48a, 75]. 

Keck s asymmetric allylation has been employed independently by two research groups in the construction of the C1-C14 and fragments of fhe paclilaxel- 

Bis(oxazolinyl)phenylrhodium(III) aqua complexes have been shown to act as 

Denmark discovered that coordination of a chiral Lewis base to a Lewis acid en- 

Maruoka developed bidentate Lewis acids, with BINOL as chiral auxiliary, which 

A number of such ligands have been developed. They typically include a diphenylphosphino aryl unit connected to a chiral group. Bisamides 9.128 derived from rran5-l,2-diaminocyclohexane, and also other diamines, have proved valuable, as have phosphinooxazoline derivatives, such as 9.129.  

Palladium-catalysed reaction of the dibenzoate 9.131 with a chloropurine 9.134 gave either enantiomer according to the choice of ligand. The remaining benzoate could then be replaced by a substituted malonate to give the disubstituted product 9.135, again with palladium catalysis. After dihydroxylation of the double bond, the malonate moiety could be stripped down to provide the hydroxymethyl substituent. Substitution of the chloride by ammonia and removal of the acetonide gave the nucleoside 9.137. 

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Enamines derived from ketones are allylated[79]. The intramolecular asymmetric allylation (chirality transfer) of cyclohexanone via its 5-proline ally ester enamine 120 proceeds to give o-allylcyclohexanone (121) with 98% ee[80,8l]. Low ee was observed in intermolecular allylation. Similarly, the asymmetric allylation of imines and hydrazones of aldehydes and ketones has been carried out[82]. 

Asymmetric allylation of carbon nucleophiles has been carried out extensively using Pd catalysts coordinated by various chiral phosphine ligands and even with nitrogen ligands, and ee > 90% has been achieved in several cases. However, in most cases, a high ee has been achieved only with the l,3-diaryl-substitiitcd allylic compounds 217, and the synthetic usefulness of the reaction is limited. Therefore, only references are cited[24,133]. 

In mosl allylation reactions, only a catalytic amount of CuCN-2LiCl is required [41]. Use of die chiral ferrocenylamine 104 as a catalyst makes enables asymmetric allylation of diorganozinc reagents to be effected witli allylic chlorides iScbeme 2.3G) [78]. Related electropb des such as propargylic bromides [79] and unsaturated epoxides [80] also undergo Su2 -substitution reactions iScbeme 2.37). 

Hie use of tlie cliiral catalyst 19b for asymmetric allylic substitution of allylic substrates bas been studied in some deta d fSdieme 8.18) and, under ji-selective reaction conditions, asymmetric induction was indeed obtained [28, 34]. 

The best procedure reported to date for the asymmetric allylation of aldehydes using tributyl(2-propenyl)stannane involves the catalyzed addition with the BINOL-TiCl2 complex as catalyst. Good yields and ee s were obtained for both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes using 20 mol% of the catalyst127. 

Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation is a typical catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reaction [ 126 -128]. The Pd-complex of the ligand (R)-3b bearing methyl, 2-biphenyl and cyclohexyl groups as the three substituents attached to the P-chirogenic phosphorus atom was found to be in situ an efficient catalyst in the asymmetric allylic alkylation of l-acetoxy-l,3-diphenylprop-2-en (4) with malonate derivatives in the presence of AT,0-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide (BSA) and potassium acetate, affording enantioselectivity up to 96% and quantitative... 

Scheme 30. Example of Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation...

Yamano T, Taya N, Kawada M, Huang T, Imamoto T (1999) Tetrahedron Lett 40 2577 Brunner H, Nishiyama H, Itoh K (1993) Asymmetric hydrosilylation. In Ojima I (ed) Catalytic asymmetric synthesis. Wiley-VCH, New York, chap 6 Sawamura M, Kuwano R, Ito Y (1994) Angew Chem, Int Ed Engl 33 111 Kuwano R, Uemura T, Saitoh M, Ito Y (1999) Tetrahedron Lett 40 1327 Hayashi T (1993) Asymmetric allylic substitution and grignard cross-coupling. In Ojima I (ed) Catalytic asymmetric synthesis. WUey-VCH, New York, chap 7-1 Trost BM, Vranken DLV (1996) Chem Rev 96 395 Consiglio G,Waymouth RM (1989) Chem Rev 89 257... 

Fig. 2.22 Combination of chiral imidazolidin-2-ylidenes and biphenyl linkers in the chiral catalysts or catalyst precursors for the asymmetric allylic alkylations...

Scheme 1. Asymmetric allylic alkylation of rac-3-acetoxy-l,3-diphenyl-l-propene (rac-I) with dimethyl malonate catalysed by Pd/1 colloidal system. (Reprinted from Reference [44], 2004, with permission from American Chemical Society.)...

In 2004, Shi et al. reported Pd-catalysed asymmetric allylic substitutions using axially chiral S/S- and S/O-heterodonor ligands based on the binaphthalene backbone. The test reaction was performed in the presence of... 

In 2001, Imamoto et al. reported the preparation of novel chiral S/P-bidentate ligands containing a chirogenic centre at the phosphorus atom and their stereoinduction capability in palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic substitution reactions (Scheme 1.14)." ... 

In 1999, Ikeda et al. reported a new type of sulfur-oxazoline ligands with an axis-fixed or -unfixed biphenyl backbone prepared in good yields by coupling reactions of methoxybenzene derivatives substituted with a chiral oxazoline and a sulfur-containing Grignard reagent. These ligands were subsequently evaluated for the test palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation... 

The catalytic enantioselective desymmetrization of meso compounds is a powerful tool for the construction of enantiomerically enriched functionalized products." Meso cyclic allylic diol derivatives are challenging substrates for the asymmetric allylic substitution reaction owing to the potential competition of several reaction pathways. In particular, S 2 and 5n2 substitutions can occur, and both with either retention or inversion of the stereochemistry. In the... 

The catalytic enantioselective addition of vinylmetals to activated alkenes is a potentially versatile but undeveloped class of transformations. Compared to processes with arylmetals and, particularly alkylmetals, processes with the corresponding vinylic reagents are of higher synthetic utility but remain scarce, and the relatively few reported examples are Rh-catalysed conjugate additions. In this context, Hoveyda et al. reported very recently an efficient method for catalytic asymmetric allylic alkylations with vinylaluminum reagents that were prepared and used in Thus, stereoselective reactions... 

Moreover, a few chiral ferrocenylsulfur-imine ligands were investigated in the palladium-catalysed asymmetric allylic alkylation of 1,3-diphenylpropenyl acetate and cyclohexenyl acetate with dimethyl maionate (Scheme... 

Good fortune and design in the discovery of iridium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution. 

A fourth focus of catalytic chemistry in our laboratory has been iridium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution. Dr. Toshimichi Ohmura had been studying additions to rhodium and iridium allyl and benzyl complexes in hopes of developing... 

Asymmetric Allylation. One of the recent new developments on this subject is the asymmetric allylation reaction. It was found that native and trimethylated cyclodextrins (CDs) promote enantiose-lective allylation of 2-cyclohexenone and aldehydes using Zn dust and alkyl halides in 5 1 H2O-THF. Moderately optically active products with ee up to 50% were obtained.188 The results can be rationalized in terms of the formation of inclusion complexes between the substrates and the CDs and of their interaction with the surface of the metal. 

More recently, catalytic asymmetric allylations of imines and imine derivatives in aqueous media have been studied. An /V-spiro C2-symmetrical chiral quaternary ammonium salt (5,5)-I-Br (,S, .S )-()-Np-NAS-Br] has been evaluated in the allylation of glycine tert-Bu ester benzophenone Schiff base [Ph2C=NCH2COOCMe3] for synthesis of both natural and unnatural a-amino acids (Eq. 11,45).76... 

As shown in Scheme 2.20, selective lithiation of substrate 2-87 by treatment with LDA in THF at -78 °C triggers an intramolecular Michael/intermolecular aldol addition process with benzaldehyde to give a mixture of diastereomers 2-90 and 2-91. 2-91 was afterwards transformed into 2-92, which is used as a chiral ligand for Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution reactions [29]. 

Asymmetric synthesis of tricyclic nitro ergoline synthon (up to 70% ee) is accomplished by intramolecular cyclization of nitro compound Pd(0)-catalyzed complexes with classical C2 symmetry diphosphanes.94 Palladium complexes of 4,5-dihydrooxazoles are better chiral ligands to promote asymmetric allylic alkylation than classical catalysts. For example, allylic substitution with nitromethane gives enantioselectivity exceeding 99% ee (Eq. 5.62).95 Phosphi-noxazolines can induce very high enatioselectivity in other transition metal-catalyzed reactions.96 Diastereo- and enantioselective allylation of substituted nitroalkanes has also been reported.9513... 

In asymmetric reactions, chiral phosphine ligands such as BINAP derivatives are used as effective chiral ligands in silver complexes. In particular, an Agr-BINAP complex activates aldehydes and imines effectively and asymmetric allylations,220-222 aldol reactions 223 and Mannich-type reactions224 proceed in high yield with high selectivity (Scheme 51). 

Some attempts to obtain a polymer-supported catalyst for chiral asymmetric allylic alkylation have been reported with some success in respect of catalyst recycling on activity, but with unsatisfactory results concerning enantioselectivity.188,189... 

The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution using seven different phosphano-oxazoline ligands at various ligand-to-metal ratios was also studied.112 An aluminum block containing 27 wells was placed in a dry box in which the reactions were carried out in parallel. Analyses were performed by conventional chiral GC equipped with an autosampler. Such a setup allowed about 33 catalyst evaluations per day. Apparently, only a few dozen were carried out in the study, resulting in the identification of a catalyst showing an ee-value of 74% in the reaction of 4-acyloxy-2-pentene with malonate.112 It is not clear whether further ligand diversification would lead to catalysts more selective than the record set in this case by the Trost-catalyst (92% ee).113... 

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