2 ’- -1,1 ’-binaphthyl asymmetric allylations

Some monophosphines are also revealed to work as reasonably effective ligands. Imamoto and Tsuruta prepared and applied P-chirogenic monophosphines 38 to the allylic alkylation (up to 96% ee) (Equation (7)). Nelson and Hilfiker found that monophosphines 39 bearing a tricarbonyl(arene)chromium moiety work as effective chiral ligands (up to 92% ee) (Equation (7)). " Some monophosphines 40-42 bearing a binaphthyl moiety and some mono-dentate phosphoramidites 43-45 work as quite effective chiral ligands (Equation (7)). Several other monophosphines 46-48 applied to the asymmetric allylic alkylation are summarized in Scheme 5 39,39a-39h... 

Figure 4.25 Substrates for asymmetric allylic alkylation with hydroxy-1, r-binaphthyl functionalised NHC ligands.

Bandin, M., Casolari, S., Cozzi, P. G., Proni, G., Schmohel, E., Spada, G. P., Tagliavini, E., Umani-Ronchi, A. Synthesis and characterization of new enantiopure 7,7 -disubstituted 2,2 -dihydroxy-1,1 -binaphthyls useful ligands for the asymmetric allylation reaction of aldehydes. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2000,491-497. 

Subsequently, chiral binaphthyl-based terminal alkene-phosphine hybrid ligands were synthesized and employed in the Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation of indoles with 168 to give the desired products in high yields (72-99%) with good to excellent enantioselectivity (75-94% ee) (Scheme 6.80). To evaluate the effect of the alkene group of (S)-167, a ligand... 

A phenolic oxygen participates in facile oxypalladation. 2-Allylphenol (55) undergoes clean cyclization to 2H-l-benzopyran (56) in DMSO under air with a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)2 without a reoxidant. 2-Methylbenzofuran (57) is obtained when PdCl2 is used [50]. But different chemoselectivity with the Pd(II) salts was also reported [51]. Catalytic asymmetric cyclization of the tetrasubstituted 2-allylic phenol 58 using the binaphthyl-type chiral ligand 60, called (.S, .S )-ip-borax, afforded the furan 59 with 96% ee. Use of Pd(CF3 002)2 as a catalyst is essential in the presence of benzoquinone [52]. Formation of the benzofuran 62 from 61 has been utilized in the synthesis of aklavinione [53]. The intramolecular reaction of 2-hydroxychalcone (63) produces the flavone 64 [54]. 

This volume begins with two procedures in the area of catalytic asymmetric synthesis. The first procedure describes the synthesis of (R)-2-Dl PH ENYLPHOSPHI NO-2 -METHOXY-1,1 -BINAPHTHYL (MOP), a chiral ligand that has proven very useful in palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of olefins and palladium-catalyzed reduction of allylic esters by formic acid. The next procedure describes the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of nitroaldols using a chiral LANTHANUM-LITHIUM-BINOL COMPLEX, illustrated by the synthesis of (2S,3S)-2-NITRO-5-PHENYL-1,3-PENTANEDIOL. 

Trost and coworkers developed a chiral zinc phenoxide for the asymmetric aldol reaction of acetophenone or hydroxyacetophenone with aldehydes (equations 62 and 63) . This method does not involve the prior activation of the carbonyls to silyl enol ethers as in the Mukaiyama aldol reactions. Shibasaki and coworkers employed titanium phenoxide derived from a phenoxy sugar for the asymmetric cyanosilylation of ketones (equation 64). 2-Hydroxy-2 -amino-l,l -binaphthyl was employed in the asymmetric carbonyl addition of diethylzinc , and a 2 -mercapto derivative in the asymmetric reduction of ketones and carbonyl allylation using allyltin ° . ... 

One of the exciting developments of the Wacker-type oxidation is the asymmetric synthesis of the reaction. For instance, using a new chiral bis(oxazoline) ligand L = 3,3 -Disubstituted 2,2 -bis(oxazolyl)-l,r-binaphthyls (boxax), a catalytic asymmetric Wacker -type cyclization converted allyl-phenol 55 to dihydrofuran 74 with 67% ee.ss... 

On the basis of the previous results. Park, Jew, and co-workers [101] developed in 2009 an efficient synthetic methodology for enantiomerically pure a-alkyl-a,3-diaminopropionic acid. They described the asymmetric PTC alkylation of Af(l)-Boc-2-phenyl-2-imidazoline-4-carboxylic acid /cr/-butyl esters (52) with propargyl, allyl, and substituted benzyl bromides under catalysis with the binaphthalene-derived PTC XXV (Scheme 8.19). Alkylated products were obtained in high yields with excellent enantioselectivities and their acidic hydrolysis furnished corresponding optically active a-alkyl-a,(3-diaminopropionic acids. Another example of PTC alkylation of heterocyclic compounds, namely 1-cyanotetrahydro-(3-carbolines using a binaphthyl-modified V-spiro-type catalyst L, was reported by Maruoka and co-workers [103]. 

Allylpalladium complexes with BOX-type ligands and glucopyrano-oxazoline-palladium catalysts were used as catalysts for enantioselective allylic substitution (277). A chiral bisoxazoline ligand (BOXBZ) developed by Pfaltz has been used for asymmetric carbo- and heteroannulation reactions (278). An axial binaphthyl-based ligand possessing oxazolyl substituents (BOXAX) was developed by Hayashi and co-workers and successfully applied for the asymmetric Wacker-type cyclization (279). 

After Kobayashi spioneering study on theabiUty of (S)-2,2 -bis(diphenylphosphanyl)-1,1 -binaphthyl dioxide (9, BINAPO) as a promoter of the enantioselective allylation of a-hydrazono esters with allyltrichlorosilanes [27], Nakajima reported the first catalytic system for the allylation of aldehydes, in which the use of N,N-diisopropylethylamine and tetrabutylammonium iodide was essential for accelerating the catalytic cycle (Scheme 7.16) [28], For this allylation, y-functionahzed nucleophiles such as cis-y-bromoallyltrichlorosilane could be employed as addressed by Maikov and Kodovsky [29], In addition, 9 could be apphed to the asymmetric ring opening of meso-epoxides with SiCh, as expected from the scope of the chiral bipyridine N,N -dioxide catalysis [30], and could also catalyze the SiCfi-mediated, enanhoselective phosphonylation of aldehydes with trialkyl phosphites [31],... 

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