Asymmetric palladium catalysts

While hydrosilylation of 1-alkenes and HSiCl3 with platinum catalysts provides linear products (1-trichlorosilylalkanes), palladium chloride modified with phosphines gives products carrying the trichlorosilyl group at the secondary carbon. This is highly remarkable because all other metal complexes studied so far lead to 1-substituted products. This regioselectivity leads to the possibility to carry out asymmetric hydrosilylation. 

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In an extension of this work, the Shibasaki group developed the novel transformation 48—>51 shown in Scheme 10.25c To rationalize this interesting structural change, it was proposed that oxidative addition of the vinyl triflate moiety in 48 to an asymmetric palladium ) catalyst generated under the indicated conditions affords the 16-electron Pd+ complex 49. Since the weakly bound triflate ligand can easily dissociate from the metal center, a silver salt is not needed. Insertion of the coordinated alkene into the vinyl C-Pd bond then affords a transitory 7t-allylpalladium complex 50 which is captured in a regio- and stereocontrolled fashion by acetate ion to give the optically active bicyclic diene 51 in 80% ee (89% yield). This catalytic asymmetric synthesis by a Heck cyclization/ anion capture process is the first of its kind. 

The reactions of nitrones constitute the absolute majority of metal-catalyzed asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions. Boron, aluminum, titanium, copper and palladium catalysts have been tested for the inverse electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of nitrones with electron-rich alkenes. Fair enantioselectivities of up to 79% ee were obtained with oxazaborolidinone catalysts. However, the AlMe-3,3 -Ar-BINOL complexes proved to be superior for reactions of both acyclic and cyclic nitrones and more than >99% ee was obtained in some reactions. The Cu(OTf)2-BOX catalyst was efficient for reactions of the glyoxylate-derived nitrones with vinyl ethers and enantioselectivities of up to 93% ee were obtained. 

Styrene, a-ethyl-asymmetric hydroformylation catalysts, platinum complexes, 6, 266 asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts, rhodium complexes, 6, 250 Styrene, a-methyl-asymmetric carbonylation catalysis by palladium complexes, 6, 293 carbonylation... 

Silanes (R3SiH) also add to alkenes to form a new alkyl silane (RaSi—R ) in the presence of a hyponitrite. Silanes add to dienes with a palladium catalyst, and asymmetric induction is achieved by using a binapthyl additive. ° ... 

The reductive amination of ketones can be carried out under hydrogen pressure in the presence of palladium catalysts. However, if enantiopure Q -aminoketones are used, partial racemization of the intermediate a-amino imine can occur, owing to the equilibration with the corresponding enam-ine [102]. Asymmetric hydrogenation of racemic 2-amidocyclohexanones 218 with Raney nickel in ethanol gave a mixture of cis and trans 1,2-diamino cyclohexane derivatives 219 in unequal amounts, presumably because the enamines are intermediates, but with excellent enantioselectivity. The two diastereomers were easily separated and converted to the mono-protected cis- and trans- 1,2-diaminocyclohexanes 220. The receptor 221 has been also synthesized by this route [103] (Scheme 33). 

Fig. 2.25 Palladium catalysts and postulated intermediates in the asymmetric conjugate addition of phenyl boronic acids to cyclohex-2-enone...

For the asymmetric hydrosilylation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene (42) (Scheme 3-17), the enantioselectivity is higher in the reaction with phenyldifluorosilane than that with trichlorosilane or methyidichlorosilane. The reaction of 42 with phenyldifluorosilane in the presence of a palladium catalyst coordinated with ferrocenylphosphine... 

The most active palladium catalyst system developed for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene (Scheme 23) involves the use of the (/ )-MOP-phen ligand (38), which shows significant enhancement of enantioselectivity compared to (R)-MeO-MOP (80% ee from (38), 39% ee from (36a)).114 Other phosphine ligands that afford active palladium catalysts for the same transformation include the /3-7V-sulfonylaminoalkylphosphine (39) and phosphetane ligand (40) (Equation (13)).115-117 A comparison of the enantioselectivities of these ligands for the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene is given in Table 8. 

The asymmetric allylic alkylation (AAA) reaction has been adapted for use with pyrrole nucleophiles <06JACS6054>. For example, treatment of pyrrole 55 and cyclopentene 56 with a palladium catalyst in the presence of a chiral additive gave pyrrole 57 in up to 92% ee. The latter was elaborated into piperazinone-pyrrole natural product, agelastatin A 94. 

A single report appears in the literature regarding the use of chirally modified palladium catalysts in reductive enyne cyclization.60 Upon exposure of 1,6-enyne 36a to the indicated palladium pyridine-oxazoline complex in the presence of EtjSiH, cyclization product 36b is formed in good yield, but with only modest levels of asymmetric induction (Scheme 26). 

The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrenes has been applied to the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of l-aryl-l,2-diols from arylacetylenes (Scheme 6).46 Thus, ( )-l-aryl-2-(trichlorosilyl)ethenes, which are readily generated by platinum-catalyzed hydrosilylation of arylacetylenes, were treated with trichlorosilane and the palladium catalyst coordinated with MOP ligand 12f to give 1 -aryl-1,2-bis(silyl)ethanes, oxidation of which produced the enantiomerically enriched (95-98% ee) 1,2-diols. 

In the asymmetric hydrosilylation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene 38 (Scheme 10, Table 4), catalyzed by chiral ferrocenylphosphines 5 and 40, the enantioselectivity is higher with phenyldifluorosilane than that with trichlorosilane or methyldichlorosilane (entries 1—4). The reaction of 38 with phenyldifluorosilane in the presence of a palladium catalyst coordinated with ferrocenylphosphine 40b gave allylsilane (A)-39c with 77% ee.58,59 The use of (j3-N-sulfonylaminoalkyl (phosphine 35a for the reaction of 38 with methyldichlorosilane exhibited the same level of asymmetric induction (entries 5-6).53 In this asymmetric hydrosilylation, combination of trichlorosilane and... 

A new type of asymmetric hydrosilylation which produces axially chiral allenylsilanes has been reported by use of a palladium catalyst coordinated with the bisPPFOMe ligand 51b.64 The hydrosilylation of l-buten-3-ynes substituted with bulky groups such as tert-butyl at the acetylene terminus took place in a 1,4-fashion to give allenyl(trichloro)-silanes with high selectivity. The highest enantioselectivity (90% ee) was observed in the reaction of 5,5-dimethyl-T hexen-3-yne with trichlorosilane catalyzed by the bisPPFOMe-palladium complex (Scheme 13). 

Hydrosilylation of 1,6-dienes accompanied by cyclization giving a five-membered ring system is emerging as a potential route to the synthesis of functionalized carbocycles.81,81a,81b 82 As its asymmetric version, diallylmalonates 86 were treated with trialkylsilane in the presence of a cationic palladium catalyst 88, which is coordinated with a chiral pyridine-oxazoline ligand. As the cyclization-hydrosilylation products, //ww-disubstituted cyclopentanes 87 were obtained with high diastereoselectivity (>95%), whose enantioselectivity ranged between 87% and 90% (Scheme 25).83 83a... 

Nakamura et al.100 found that in the presence of palladium catalysts imines undergo allylation readily, providing the corresponding homoallylamines with high yields. Thus, chiral palladium complex 157 has been synthesized and applied in the asymmetric allylation of imines using allyl tributyltin as the allylation reagent. In Scheme 3-54, moderate yield and up to 82% ee have been obtained with 157 as the chiral catalyst.101... 

Keywords Asymmetric Hydrogenation m Carbon Dioxide m Carbonylation m Dimethylformamide Enantioselectivity m Formic Acid m Homogeneous Hydrogenation n Palladium Catalysts Radical Reactions m Ruthenium Catalysts m Supercritical Fluids m Solvent Replacement... 

An asymmetric version of the Pd-catalyzed hydroboration of the enynes was reported in 1993(118]. The monodentate phosphine (S)-MeO-MOP was used as a chiral ligand for the palladium catalyst. Enantioselectivity of the asymmetric hydroboration was estimated from the enantiopurity of homopropargyl alcohols, which were obtained from the axially chiral allenylboranes and benzaldehyde via an SE pathway (Scheme 3.78). 

The catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allenes was first achieved by Elsevier and co-workers in 1989 [104]. A palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of an allenyl-metal compound 250 (M = ZnCl, MgCl or Cu) with iodobenzene in the presence of DIOP 251 gave 252 in 25% ee (Scheme 4.65). The synthesis of 252 by the reaction of 250 (M = Br) with phenylzinc chloride in the presence of a chiral palladium catalyst gave a quantitative conversion but very low enantiomeric excesses (3-9% ee). 

Scheme 4.65 First catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allene 252 with a chiral palladium catalyst.

Scheme 4.66 Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of allenylboranes by a chiral palladium catalyst.

The complete transformation of a racemic mixture into a single enantiomer is one of the challenging goals in asymmetric synthesis. We have developed metal-enzyme combinations for the dynamic kinetic resolution (DKR) of racemic primary amines. This procedure employs a heterogeneous palladium catalyst, Pd/A10(0H), as the racemization catalyst, Candida antarctica lipase B immobilized on acrylic resin (CAL-B) as the resolution catalyst and ethyl acetate or methoxymethylacetate as the acyl donor. Benzylic and aliphatic primary amines and one amino acid amide have been efficiently resolved with good yields (85—99 %) and high optical purities (97—99 %). The racemization catalyst was recyclable and could be reused for the DKR without activity loss at least 10 times. 

Other important examples of immobilized palladium catalysts (48)-(50) which were employed in Heck, Suzuki-Miyaura and allylic alkylation reactions are summarized in Fig. 4.4 [123]. Catalyst (49) is particularly noteworthy as it is a recyc-able amphiphilic resin-supported P,N-chelating Pd-complex which performs asymmetric allylic alkylations in water. 

Another approach for the chemoselective and asymmetric iodination of unactivated C H bonds was reported with a palladium catalyst using a chiral auxiliary (Scheme 5.19). Excellent diastereoselectivities were induced by chelating the auxiliary to the palladium catalyst center followed by an electrophilic C—H activation and iodination. Studies showed that I2 acts as both the reactant and the activator to form the reactive catalyst precursor, Pd3(OAc)3. After the reaction was completed, the formed Pdl2 was precipitated from the solution and could be reused several times without losing reactivity and selectivity. 

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