Chelate effect stereochemistry

The chelate effect in proteins is also important, since the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of the protein can impose particular coordination geometry on the metal ion. This determines the ligands available for coordination, their stereochemistry and the local environment, through local hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity, hydrogen bonding by nearby residues with bound and non-bound residues in the metal ion s coordination sphere, etc. A good example is illustrated by the Zn2+-binding site of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase, which has an affinity for Zn2+, such that the non-metallated protein can extract Zn2+ from solution into the site and can displace Cu2+ from the Zn2+ site when the di-Cu2+ protein is treated with excess Zn2+. 

In this bicyclic case the palladium and methoxyl groups are trans to each other 1X>. A cis stereochemistry would have been expected on the basis of the ethylene oxidation mechanism. Trans-addition, however, is unusually favorable in the bicyclic examples. Although addition to the exo positions is generally strongly preferred, it cannot occur here if the favorable chelating effect of the second double bond is to be obtained. As a result, only the solvent methanol can attack from the exo side. The endo cis adduct has not been prepared and it conceivably could rearrange to the trans isomer even if it were formed initially. Clearly, more work needs to be done on the stereochemistry of the addition reactions. 

In early reports on nickel(0)-catalyzed (3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of methylenecyclo-propane with alkenes, orientation and stereochemistry was investigated37. Additionally, palladium-catalyzed versions of this formal [2intramolecular mode of a palladium-catalyzed version, an additional chelation effect can be used for control of regio- and stereochemistry to yield the thermodynamically less favored frtwv-fused bicyclo[3.3.0] octanes 39. 

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In the discussion of the stereochemistry of aldol and Mukaiyama reactions, the most important factors in determining the syn or anti diastereoselectivity were identified as the nature of the TS (cyclic, open, or chelated) and the configuration (E or Z) of the enolate. If either the aldehyde or enolate is chiral, an additional factor enters the picture. The aldehyde or enolate then has two nonidentical faces and the stereochemical outcome will depend on facial selectivity. In principle, this applies to any stereocenter in the molecule, but the strongest and most studied effects are those of a- and (3-substituents. If the aldehyde is chiral, particularly when the stereogenic center is adjacent to the carbonyl group, the competition between the two diastereotopic faces of the carbonyl group determines the stereochemical outcome of the reaction. 

A series of optically active linear tetradentate ligands, which have been stereospeeifically synthesized, have been used to prepare complexes with a trans-[CoN Cl2] core and both five- and six-membered chelate rings, in an attempt to correlate the sign of the Cotton effect with the known chiralities of compounds. How ever, a complete correlation was not possible. The synthesis, resolution, and properties of some oxalato, malonato, and diacido complexes of Co " with the stereospecific flexible tetramine ligands 5-Me-3,2,3-tet and NA -bis-(2-picoyl)-l-methyl-1,2-diaminoethane (picpn) have been reported. The stereospecificity is demonstrated by comparison of the optical rotation of the ligand prepared via an asymmetric synthesis with that of the ligand isolated from a resolved complex. The stereochemistry of the complexes has been deduced. ... 

Diastereoselectivities in complex systems are determined by conformation of the transition states which are affected by chelation and steric effects of substituents and reaction conditions. For example, the stereochemistry of a hydroxyl group derived from a ketone is determined by coordination of hydroxyl and other functional groups, and depends on the presence or absence of HMPA (Equation (42)). 

The proposed mechanism is consistent with the experimental results obtained so far. For instance the effects of cation size and -coordination are readily understood in terms of the chelated complex [10a] as is the absence of stereoselectivity in the case of the corresponding 4-pyridyl derivatives where coordination with cation in the manner shown above is impossible. The similarity between vinyl addition and methylation stereochemistry is likewise consistent with the proposed mechanism. Thus it is the equilibrium between [10] and [11] that is primarily responsible for the observed stereochemistry. Work on the stereochemistry of other electrophylic reactions of [2a] is in progress. 

Product stereochemistries can be greatly influenced by these chelation control effects. This was first observed by Cram.10 There are many controversies about this topic, and the issue remains a topic of investigative interest.11 Without kinetic data, it has been suggested that it is impossible to distinguish the following two mechanistic types 12... 

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