BINOL-titanium complex

Asymmetric ene and Diels-Alder reactions with methyl glyoxalate. The reaction of methyl glyoxalate with isoprene catalyzed by the BINOL-titanium complex (R)-l provides not only the expected ene product (2), but also the Diels-Alder product (3), both in 97% ee (equation I). This chiral titanium complex is also an... 

The ene reaction between 1-methylstyrene and methyl glyoxylate, catalyzed by a BINOL-titanium complex, gives a considerable amplification, as reported by Nakai and Mikami (Scheme 9).33 Many reports of asymmetric amplifications have subsequently been published for a wide range of reactions (vide infra). 

The outstanding properties of binaphthol (BINOL) as a ligand in chiral Lewis acidic metal complexes were also demonstrated highly successfully by Mikami [108, 109] using a binol-titanium complex 2-69a. Even in the cycloaddition of methyl glyoxylate 2-66 to 1 -methoxy-1,3-butadiene 2-65 which usually shows only a low selectivity, a reasonable cis/trans-selectivity and an excellent enantioselectivity could be obtained in the presence of catalytic amounts of this complex. 

Despite efforts made to improve enantioselectivities by supporting TADDOL-titanium catalyst, the homogeneous conditions remain the best ones. BINOL was also reported as an efficient ligand, however, to our knowledge supported-BINOL-titanium complexes were not studied in the asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. In contrast, BINOL was extensively studied in the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction and in particular in the pericyclic rearrangement of several aldehydes and electron-rich and highly regioselective Danishefslqr s diene (84) that provide access to 2-substituted-2,3-dihydro-4/f-pyran-4-ones 85 (Scheme 7.50). 

The optically active diethyl (arylsulfinyl)- or (alkylsrdfinyl)methylphosphonates can be produced in 80->98% ee by an enantioselective oxidation of the corresponding sulfides with hydroperoxides in the presence of catalytic amount of chiral BINOL titanium complexes [273] (Scheme 14.114). 

The interest in chiral titanium(IV) complexes as catalysts for reactions of carbonyl compounds has, e.g., been the application of BINOL-titanium(IV) complexes for ene reactions [8, 19]. In the field of catalytic enantioselective cycloaddition reactions, methyl glyoxylate 4b reacts with isoprene 5b catalyzed by BINOL-TiX2 20 to give the cycloaddition product 6c and the ene product 7b in 1 4 ratio enantio-selectivity is excellent - 97% ee for the cycloaddition product (Scheme 4.19) [28]. 

It has also been shown by Mikami et al. that a BINOL-titanium(IV) complex in which the 6,6 position of the BINOL ligand is substituted with bromine catalyzes... 

In 2008, the titanium complex of a novel BINOL-based thiazole thioether ligand was found by Li et al. to be an efficient catalyst in the enantioselective... 

Binaphthol (BINOL), chiral titanium complexes of, 25 99 Binary alloys... 

Reetz et al. [53] prepared analogues of (R)-binol as ligands for the titanium complex in the presence of water under the same conditions as Uemura s mentioned above. In this study, (R)-octahydrobinol and its dinitro derivative were synthesized. The reaction using (R)-dinitro-octahydrobinol ligand gave (. S j-methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide (86% ee) [53], which makes a sharp contrast to the reaction using (R)-binol wherein (A1 (-methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide was formed [50]. It is probable that kinetic resolution is involved, giving some asymmetric amplification. 

Mikami et al. reported the first examples of catalytic asymmetric intramolecular carbonyl-ene reactions of types (3,4) and (2,4), using the BINOL-derived titanium complex (1) [46,49], The catalytic 7-(2,4) carbonyl-ene cyclization gives the corresponding oxepane with high enantiopurity, and the gem-dimethyl groups are not required (Scheme 8C.I8). In a similar catalytic 6-(3,4) ene cyclization, tran.v-tetrahydropyran is preferentially obtained with high enantiopurity (Scheme 8C. 19), The sense of asymmetric induction is the same as that observed for the glyoxylate-ene reaction, that is, (R)-BINOL-Ti catalyst provides (R)-alcohol. Therefore, the... 

BINOL-derived titanium complex was found to serve as an efficient catalyst for the Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction of ketone silyl enol ethers with good control of both absolute and relative stereochemistry (Scheme 8C.24) [57]. It is surprising, however, that the aldol products were obtained in the silyl enol ether (ene product) form, with high syn-diastereoselec-tivity from either geometrical isomer of the starting silyl enol ethers. 

Mikami reported a highly enantioselective carbonyl-ene reaction where a chiral titanium complex 11 prepared from enantiomerically pure binaphthol (BINOL) and Ti(0-i-Pr)2Br2 catalyzed a glyoxylate-ene reaction with a-methylstyrene to give chiral homoallyl alcohol 12 with 94.6% ee [22]. In this reaction, a remarkable asymmetric amplification was observed and almost the same enantioselectivity (94.4% ee) was achieved by using chiral catalyst prepared... 

Uemura reported a highly enantioselective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides using a chiral titanium complex prepared from chiral BINOL and Ti(0-i-Pr)4, and this reaction exhibits a remarkable asymmetric amplification (Scheme 9.15) [33]. 

The activation of a racemic catalyst by a chiral additive was achieved by Mikami in a chiral titanium complex-catalyzed asymmetric carbonyl-ene reaction (Scheme 9.21) [39], The racemic catalyst ( )-BINOL-Ti-(0-i-Pr)2 37 (10 mol %) is activated by adding (R)-BINOL (5 mol %), and the ene product 38 with 90% ee is obtained. (R)-BINOL is selectively associated with (/f)-BIN0L-Ti-(0-i-Pr)2 to give a dimeric catalyst whose activity is kinetically calculated to be 25.6 times greater than that of the remaining (S)-BIN0L-Ti-(0-i-Pr)2. 

A Et2Zn-(5, S)-linked-BINOL (21) complex has been found suitable for chemos-elective enolate formation from a hydroxy ketone in the presence of isomerizable aliphatic iV-diphenylphosphinoylimines.103 The reaction proceeded smoothly and /9- alkyl-yS-amino-a-hydroxy ketones were obtained in good yield and high enantioselectivity (up to 99% ee). A titanium complex derived from 3-(3,5-diphenylphenyl)-BINOL (22) has exhibited an enhanced catalytic activity in the asymmetric alkylation of aldehydes, allowing the reduction of the catalyst amount to less than 1 mol% without deterioration in enantioselectivity.104... 

Mukaiyama Aldol Condensation. The BINOL-derived titanium complex BINOL-T1CI2 is an efficient catalyst for the Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction. Not only ketone silyl enol ether (eq 25), but also ketene silyl acetals (eq 26) can be used to give the aldol-type products with control of absolute and relative stereochemistry. 

The chiral titanium complexes modified by the perchlorate or trifluoromethanesulfonate ligand such as (R)-l,l -bi-2,2 -naphthotitanium diperchlorate (BIN0L-Ti(C104)2) or (7 )-l,l -bi-2,2 -naphthotitanium ditriflate ((I )-BINOL-Ti(OTf)2) can easily be prepared by the addition of Silver(I) Perchlorate or Silver(I) Trifluoromethanesulfonate (2 equiv) to BINOL-TiCl2 (eq 2). ... 

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