BINOL and derivatives

The asymmetric titanium-catalyzed sulfoxidations vyith BuOOH also works with chiral diols as ligands [51-53]. Various l,2-diaryl-l,2-ethanediols were employed as ligands, and the use of 15 mol% of li(0 Pr)4 with l,2-diphenyl-l,2-ethanediol gave ee values up to 90% [51b]. Also the use of BINOL and derivatives gave asymmetric sulfoxidations [52]. 

The adduct derived from (a-benzyloxyacetaldehyde (97 % ee) is an important intermediate en route to compactin and mevinolin [76]. In contrast, modest enantioselectivity was attained when the cycloadditions were catalyzed by a chiral BINOL-ytterbium-derived catalyst [77]. Pyridines were used as additives, and the best enantioselection (93% ee) was attained only in the case of p-methoxybenzaldehyde using 2,6-lutidine. 

Many other catalysts and ligands have been examined for the enantioselective reduction of a-acetamidoacrylates and related substrates. Phosphoramidites derived from BINOL and the cyclic amines piperidine and morpholine give excellent results.35... 

A similar three-component protocol based on imino-boronate esters, derivatives of 2-formylphenolboronic acid, (S)-BINOL and amines has been developed by Perez-Fuertes et al.4 8 for the determination of ee%... 

Enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions proceed smoothly in the presence of a chiral Sc catalyst, prepared in situ from Sc(OTf)3, R)- I )-l,l -bi-2-napluhol [(R)-BINOL], and a tertiary amine in dichloromethane.58 The catalyst is also effective in Diels-Alder reactions of an acrylic acid derivative with dienes (Scheme 14). 

This (R)-polyBINAP support, when treated with [Rh(cod)2]BF4 or [ RuC12(C6H6) 2]. afforded a heterogeneous asymmetric catalyst for hydrogenation of dehydroaminoacid derivatives and ketones.100 As an extension, a copolymer with BINOL and BINAP units randomly distributed... 

Mikami and co-workers16-19 have done extensive work for developing catalysts for the asymmetric carbonyl-ene reaction. Excellent enantioselectivites are accessible with the binol-titanium catalyst 17 (Equation (10)) for the condensation of 2-methyl butadiene (R1 = vinyl) and glyoxalates (binol = l,T-binaphthalene-2,2 -diol).16 The products were further manipulated toward the total synthesis of (i )-(-)-ipsdienol. The oxo-titanium species 18 also provides excellent enantioselectivity in the coupling of a-methyl styrene with methyl glyoxalate.17 Reasonable yields and good enantioselectivites are also obtained when the catalyst 19 is formed in situ from titanium isopropoxide and the binol and biphenol derivatives.18... 

The majority of the reported phosphoramidite ligands consist of BINOL and a diversity of readily available amines. Excellent enantioselectivities in the hydrogenation of a- and /fdehydroamirio acids, itaconates and enamides [63, 64] have been reported. In a recent full report, the group of Minnaard, De Vries and Fer-inga noted that especially the BINOL-derived ligands containing a piperidine or... 

Fig. 3 Phosphoric acids derived from BINOL and Hj-BINOL...

BINOL and its derivatives have been utilized as versatile chiral sources for asymmetric catalysis, and efficient catalysts for their syntheses are, ultimately, required in many chemical fields [39-42]. The oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols is a direct synthesis of BINOL derivatives [43, 44], and some transition metals such as copper [45, 46], iron [46, 47] and manganese [48] are known as active metals for the reaction. However, few studies on homogeneous metal complexes have been reported for the asymmetric coupling of 2-naphthols [49-56]. The chiral self-dimerized V dimers on Si02 is the first heterogeneous catalyst for the asymmetric oxidative coupling of 2-naphthol. 

Arai et al. also reported another BINOL-derived two-center phase-transfer catalyst 31 for an asymmetric Michael reaction (Scheme 6.11) [8b]. Based on the fact that BINOL and its derivatives are versatile chiral catalysts, and that bis-ammonium salts are expected to accelerate the reaction due to the two reaction sites - thus preventing an undesired reaction pathway - catalyst 31 was designed and synthesized from the di-MOM ether of (S)-BINOL in six steps. After optimization of the reaction conditions, the use of 1 mol% of catalyst 31a promoted the asymmetric Michael reaction of glycine Schiff base 8 to various Michael acceptors, with up to 75% ee. When catalyst 31b or 31c was used as a catalyst, a lower chemical yield and selectivity were obtained, indicating the importance of the interaction between tt-electrons of the aromatic rings in the catalyst and substrate. In addition, the amine moiety in catalyst 31 had an important role in enantioselectivity (34d and 34e lower yield and selectivity), while catalyst 31a gave the best results. 

Readily available from BINOL and prolinol derivatives, respectively... 

Pyridinecarbaldehyde reacts with trimethylsilyl cyanide in the presence of the catalysts derived from either enantiomer of 3,3 -bis(diethylaminomethyl)-substituted binaphthol or 1,1 -bi-2-naphthol (BINOL) and... 

The enantiomeric atropoisomers of 1,1 -binaphthyl-2,2 -diol (BINOL) and bis-diphenylphosphonate derivatives (BINAP) are completely synthetic molecules that have been developed to exploit the axial dissymmetry induced by the restricted rotation about the biaryl bond (Scheme 1.8) [64]. During the past 15 years, these compounds have become the most widely used ligands for both stoichiometric and catalytic asymmetric reactions, with many analogues and derivatives having been developed recently. 

An enantioselective version of this reaction has been reported by Rueping et al.102 Treatment of an a-iminoester and an alkyne with silver acetate and a binol phosphate derivative gave propargylic amines with the highest enantiomeric ratio (er) reported as 96 4. Although the proposed catalytic cycle invoked the in situ formation of the... 

Chiral metal alkoxides M(OR)4 have been developed as asymmetric variants of ordinary Lewis acids, such as A1C13 and ZrCU, and are used as catalysts for selective carbon-carbon bond formation. Thus, starting from bidentate l,l -bi-2-naphthol derivatives (BINOL) and SnCU, a series of chiral tin(iv) aryloxides 221 (Figure 7) was prepared and successfully applied to the enantioselective Diels-Alder reaction <2006TL873>. Similar silocanes obtained from menthone- or camphor-derived 2,2 -biphenols have been obtained and their configuration was analyzed by NOE differential spectroscopy (NOEDS) <1997JOC7156>. 

The impact of achiral ligands on the TOP of the catalyst in this system was then examined by following reaction conversions with various catalysts. In the absence of both Ph2-BINOL and diamine ligands, the reaction of diethylzinc with benzaldehyde is very slow, exhibiting about 1% conversion after 8h at 0°C. When Ph2-BINOL was employed in the asymmetric addition to this substrate, the catalyst TOP increased exhibiting 25% conversion after 2 h. To evaluate the TOP of zinc centers bearing diimine derived from ethylene diamine and 2,4,6-trimethylbenzaldehyde (Table 4, entry 5) or the meso diamine (Table 5, entry 7), these ligands were... 

An improved ligand design by Manioka, Saito and Yamamoto has led to a catalyst that is effective for allyl vinyl ethers that are unsubstituted on the vinyl group [27]. This was a serious limitation of the BINOL-derived catalyst 98 which induced only C-O bond cleavage with these substrates (Table 1, entry 1). The ligand (f )-115 was prepared in six steps from (/ )-BINOL and was reacted with trimethylaluminum to give C3 symmetrical Lewis acid Five substituted catalysts were prepared and as... 

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