Catalyst supports -leucine

Enantioselective heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation using a chiral catalyst was pioneered by Aka-bori and Izumi, who prepared a palladium catalyst supported on silk fibroin. The oxime acetates of diethyl a-ketoglutarate or of ethyl phenylpyruvate were hydrogenated to form glutamic acid (7-15% ee) and phenylalanine (30% Similarly, a palladium-poly-L-leucine catalyst was used for the asym-... 

The Jacobsen group has also shown that the recycling of the resin-bounded catalyst can be successfully performed [152,154]. Moreover, they have developed an efficient method for the hydrolysis of the aminonitrile into the corresponding amino acid. This method was apphed for the commercial production of optically active K-amino acids at Rhodia ChiRex (e.g. tert-leucine) the catalyst was immobihsed on a resin support (4 mol %, 10 cycles) and the intermediate hydrocyanation adduct was trapped by simply replacing TFAA with HCOOH/AC2O, for example. Highly crystalhne formamide derivatives were thus obtained in excellent yields (97-98% per cycle) with very high enantioselectivities (92-93% per cycle) [158]. 

In addition, minor variation of the catalyst in combination with immobilization on a resin support gave an analogous recyclable solid-supported organocatalyst. Varying the derivatization method by trapping the a-amino nitrile intermediate with formic acid and acetic anhydride gives the crystalline formamides 19 in excellent yield and with high enantioselectivity. These features of this catalytic process have been demonstrated by results from the synthesis of r-tert-leucine (Scheme 14.8) [49]. 

Preparation and activation of silica-supported poly-L-leucine[150] has been studied under a variety of reaction conditions leading to an efficient procedure for the preparation of material suitable for use in the Julia-Colonna asymmetric epoxidation reaction. Poly-L-leucine, can be added to the list of natural11511 and non-natural[152] oxidation catalysts that benefit from being supported on commercially available silica gel. 

Similar conditions are also effective for the direct enantioselective epoxidation of a,p-unsaturated carbonyls, as exemplified by the conversion of chalcone (30) to the corresponding ft,/ -epoxide in 97% yield and 84% ee using the 4-iodophenyl cinchonine derivative 32 <02T1623>. Alternatively, the novel polyethylene glycol-supported oligo(L-leucine) catalyst... 

Several examples are known of the enantioselective conversion of alkenes into epoxides with the use of polymer-supported oxidation catalysts. This can be traced to the pioneering work by Julia and Colonna in 1980. They demonstrated that highly enantioselective epoxidations of chalcones and related a, 3-unsaturated ketones can be achieved with the use of insoluble poly(a-amino acids) (116, Scheme 10.20) as catalysts [298-301]. The so-called Julia-Colonna epoxidation has been the object of several excellent reviews [302-306]. The terminal oxidant is H202 in aq. NaOH. With lipophilic amino acids as the components, such as (SJ-valine or (SJ-leucine, enantioselectivities as high as 96-97% ee were obtained. The enan-tioselectivity depends of several factors, including the side-chain of the amino acid, the nature of the end groups and the degree of polymerization. Thus, for instance,... 

The palladium-catalyzed preparation of vinyl ethers through a tandem reaction consisting of an initial C—H olefination of a tertiary alcohol by an activated alkene followed by an intramolecular oxidative cychzation has been achieved using a palladium catalyst and an unusual supporting ligand (Scheme 2.107) [154]. This ligand was a leucine derivative... 

Kudo and coworkers developed a poly(ethylene glycol)-polystyrene (PEG-PS) resin supported peptide catalyst possessing poly-leucine as a chiral hydrophobic... 

The enantio- and diastereoselective epoxidation of a,P-unsaturated aldehydes in aqueous media was also performed by using the poly-leucine resin supported peptide catalyst developed by Kudo [45]. It was that the novel terminal sequence D-Pro-Ach-[Ala(l-Pyn)]3 possessing a highly hydrophobic and bulky aromatic ring was particularly effective (Scheme 5.13). 

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