BINAP hydrogenation

Ru/(S)-BINAP Hydrogenation of substituted acrylic acid 5-Naproxcn Pharmaceutical 97... 

Fig. 18. Models for the stereochemical course of Ru-BINAP hydrogenation of aikenes...

Fig. 20. Substituent direction and kinetic resolutions in ruthenium BINAP hydrogenations...

The antiinflammatory drug naproxen is sold as its (S)-enantiomer. One large-scale synthesis uses a Ru-BINAP hydrogenation catalyst. What compound would you hydrogenate to prepare naproxen ... 

Asymmetric hydrogenation has been achieved with dissolved Wilkinson type catalysts (A. J. Birch, 1976 D. Valentine, Jr., 1978 H.B. Kagan, 1978). The (R)- and (S)-[l,l -binaph-thalene]-2,2 -diylblsCdiphenylphosphine] (= binap ) complexes of ruthenium (A. Miyashita, 1980) and rhodium (A. Miyashita, 1984 R. Noyori, 1987) have been prepared as pure atrop-isomers and used for the stereoselective Noyori hydrogenation of a-(acylamino) acrylic acids and, more significantly, -keto carboxylic esters. In the latter reaction enantiomeric excesses of more than 99% are often achieved (see also M. Nakatsuka, 1990, p. 5586). 

Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation was one of the first enantioselective synthetic methods used industrially (82). 2,2 -Bis(diarylphosphino)-l,l -binaphthyl (BINAP) is a chiral ligand which possesses a Cg plane of symmetry (Fig. 9). Steric interactions prevent interconversion of the (R)- and (3)-BINAP. Coordination of BINAP with a transition metal such as mthenium or rhodium produces a chiral hydrogenation catalyst capable of inducing a high degree of enantiofacial selectivity (83). Naproxen (41) is produced in 97% ee by... 

N O Y O R I Chiral homogeneous hydrogenation Homogeneous chiral hydrogenation ol unsaluraled alcohols, or cartMxyNc acids, enamides, ketones in the presence ol BINAP Ru or Rh complex 8 as catalyst. 

D. 2(S)-(fl-tert-Butoxycarbonyl-a-(R)-hydroxyethyl)-4-(R)-hydroxy-pyrrolidine- 1-carboxylic acid, tert-butyl ester. The identical procedure was followed, in this case using the (,S)-BINAP catalyst (5)-l. Hydrogenation is conducted for 64 hr, and the reaction mixture is then transferred to a 250-mL, round-bottomed flask and concentrated to dryness. The residue is dissolved in 17 mL of methanol and cooled to 15°C. After the slow addition of 7 mL of DI water, the solution is aged for 15 min gradually forming a thin slurry. More DI water (75 mL) is added over 1 hr and the mixture is allowed to stand for an additional 1 hr at 15°C. The resulting crystals (Note 19) are filtered at 15°C, washed with 10 mL of 1 4-MeOH water, and then dried overnight in a vacuum oven (35°C, 686 mm) to yield 7.0 g (70%) of (R)-hydroxy ester 4b (Note 20). 

Reaction Characteristics of Immobilized Ru-BINAP Catalysts in Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Dimethyl itaconate... 

In this work, various Ru-BINAP catalysts immobilized on the phosphotungstic acid(PTA) modified alumina were prepared and the effects of the reaction variables (temperature, H2 pressure, solvent and content of triethylamine) on the catalytic performance of the prepared catalysts were investigated in the asymmetric hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate (DMIT). 

Fig. 1. P MAS NMR spectrum of (a)Ru-BrNAP/PTA/y-Al203, and (b)Ru-BINAP crt rlex In order to find the characteristics of the immobilized catalyst, asymmetric hydrogenation of the prochiral C=C bond was performed as a model reaction. Firstly, three different homogeneous Ru-BINAP complexes including [RuCl2((R)-BINAP)], [RuCl((R)-BINAP)(p-cymene)]Cl and [RuCl((R)-BINAP)(Benzene)]Cl were immobilized on the PTA-modified alumina. Reaction test of immobilized catalysts showed that [RuCl2((R)-BINAP)] was the most active and selective so all the experiment were done using this catalyst afterwards.

Effect of reaction conditions on the asymmetric hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate over immobilized Ru-BINAP catalyst... 

Asymmetric hydrogenation of 2- Ru-BINAP-chiral S-Naprt)xen Pharma... 

Asymmetric hydrogenation of diketene with Ru-(S)-BINAP to Maxwell (1997)... 

Manufacture of ruthenium precatalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation. The technology in-licensed from the JST for the asymmetric reduction of ketones originally employed BINAP as the diphosphine and an expensive diamine, DAIPEN." Owing to the presence of several patents surrounding ruthenium complexes of BINAP and Xylyl-BINAP, [HexaPHEMP-RuCl2-diamine] and [PhanePHOS-RuCl2-diamine] were introduced as alternative catalyst systems in which a cheaper diamine is used. Compared to the BINAP-based systems both of these can offer superior performance in terms of activity and selectivity and have been used in commercial manufacture of chiral alcohols on multi-100 Kg scales. 

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