Catalytic asymmetric reactions Keck allylation reaction

Keck, G. E., Geraci, L. S. Catalytic asymmetric allylation (CAA) reactions. II. A new enantioselective allylation procedure. Tetrahedron Lett. 1993,34, 7827-7828. 

Keck, G. E., Krishnamurthy, D., Grier, M. C. Catalytic asymmetric allylation reactions. 3. Extension to methallylstannane, comparison of procedures, and observation of a nonlinear effect. J. Org. Chem. 1993, 58, 6543-6544. 

Keck, G. E., Yu, T. Catalytic Asymmetric Allylation Reactions Using BITIP Catalysis and 2-Substituted Allylstannanes as Surrogates for P-Keto Ester Dianions. Org. Lett. 1999,1, 289-291. 

Keck [89a-c], Tagliavini [89d,e], and Yu [89f] have extensively studied the BINOL-Ti- or binol-Zr promoted reactions of achiral aldehydes with allylstan-nanes. The initial studies employed BINOL and either Ti(Oi-Pr)4 or TiCl2(0/-Pr)2 as the Lewis acid promoter in the reaction of achiral aldehydes with allyltributyl-stannane. The reaction affords good yields of the desired homoallylic alcohol with a high degree of enantioselectivity even with as little as 10 mol% of the chiral catalyst (Scheme 10-49) [89a]. The rate and turnover of the catalytic, asymmetric allylation reaction have also been optimized. It was found that when /-PrSSiMe3 is added to the reaction, a rate acceleration occurs, allowing as little as 1-2% of the catalyst to be used [89 fj. 

Keck almost simultaneously reported two procedures using chiral titanium catalysts 6A and 6B for the enantioselective addition of allyltributyltin to aldehydes [11]. In the first procedure, the catalyst 6A is prepared from a 1 1 mixture of (R)-binaphthol and titanium tetraisopropoxide. The second procedure for the preparation of 6B, in contrast, requires a 2 1 mixture of BINOL, Ti(0 Pr)4, and a catalytic amount of CF3SO3H or CF3CO2H. Using 10 mol % of the catalyst 6A or 6B, a variety of aromatic, aliphatic, and a,P-unsaturated aldehydes are efficiently transformed into the corresponding optically active homoallylic alcohols with high enantioselectivity. An improved procedure was later published for the catalytic asymmetric allylation reactions using the 2 1 BINOL/Ti catalytic system [12]. 

Keck reported an asymmetric allylation with a catalytic amount of chiral titanium catalyst [24]. The enantioselective addition of methallylstannane to aldehydes is promoted by a chiral catalyst 13 prepared from chiral BINOL and Ti(0-i-Pr)4 (Scheme 9.10). An example of asymmetric amplification was reported by using (R)-BINOL of 50% ee, and the degree of asymmetric amplification was dependent on the reaction temperature. Tagliavini also observed an asymmetric amplification in the enantioselective allylation with a BIN0L-Zr(0-i-Pr)2 catalyst [25]. 

Using Keck s original catalytic allylation procedure, Danishefsky and co-workers converted aldehyde 474 to the homoallylic alcohol 475 (conditions A, Scheme 11-38, 60% yield, >95% ee) used in their total synthesis of epothilones A and B [314], Asymmetric allylation with a stoichiometric amount of Brown s reagent, [(-)-lpc]2BAll (195), however, was higher yielding and required a shorter reaction time (conditions B, Scheme 11-38, 83% yield, >95% ee). 

Since Keck s original disclosure in 1993 many groups have been interested in expanding the scope of the reaction with a variety of chiral catalysts. These catalytic systems have, in general, moderated the reaction conditions and increased enantioselectivity. This section attempts to present the scope and limitations of many of those systems in an effort to assist in choosing the best system for asymmetric allylation of a specific substrate. 

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