Chiral additives cyclopropanation

Herrmann A, Ruettimann M, Thilgen C, Diederich F (1995) Multiple cyclopropanations of C70. Synthesis and characterization of bis-, tris-, and tetrakis-adducts and chiroptical properties of bis-adducts with chiral addends, including a recommendation for the configurational description of fullerene derivatives with a chiral addition pattern. Helv. Chim. Acta 78 1673-1704. 

Figure 13.5 Bisadducts of Cy obtained from twofold cyclopropanation reactions. Both addends with chiral and achiral substituents have been used. Adducts 2 and 3 exhibit an inherently chiral addition pattern and are formed together with the corresponding enantiomer or diastereomer involving the mirror image addition pattern.

Other chiral auxiliaries for the cyclopropanation of a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes have also been developed (Figure 7, 16-18) . a,/3-Unsaturated chiral amides have also been used in auxiliary-based reactions but the addition of diethyl tartrate as chiral additives was necessary for high diastereoselectivities ". 

The cyclopropanation of alkenes using external stoichiometric chiral additives can be divided according to their general mechanistic scheme into two classes. The enantios-elective cyclopropanation of allylic alcohols, in which a pre-association between the corresponding zinc alkoxide and the zinc reagent probably takes place, constitutes the first class. The second class involves the enantioselective cyclopropanation of unfunctionalized alkenes. The latter implies that there will be no association between the reagent and the alkene through alkoxide formation. 

The tartaric acid scaffold also led to the design of one of the most effective and general methods to generate enantiomerically enriched substituted cyclopropyhnethanol derivatives. Indeed, the chiral dioxaborolane ligand 19, prepared from tetramethyltartramide and butylboronic acid, is a superb chiral additive in allylic alcohol-directed cyclopropanation reactions (equation 83) . The best procedure requires the use of the soluble bis(iodomethyl)zinc DME complex . The reaction affords high yields and enantiomeric... 

The enantioselective cyclopropanation of acyclic allylic alcohols can be achieved with excellent enantioselectivities when the reaction is carried out in the presence of the chiral dioxaborolane ligand 18 (Equation 13.6, Protocol 11). This reaction also features the preparation of Zn(CH2I)2 DME complex which is soluble in dichloromethane.32 This chiral additive is also very effective for the synthesis of 1,2,3-substituted cyclopropanes, when 1,1-substituted diiodoalkanes are used as precursors.33 Finally, this method has been used extensively in natural product synthesis.34... 

The use of chiral additives with a rhodium complex also leads to cyclopropanes enantioselectively. An important chiral rhodium species is Rh2(5-DOSP)4, which leads to cyclopropanes with excellent enantioselectivity in carbene cyclopro-panation reactions. Asymmetric, intramolecular cyclopropanation reactions have been reported. The copper catalyzed diazoester cyclopropanation was reported in an ionic liquid. ° It is noted that the reaction of a diazoester with a chiral dirhodium catalyst leads to p-lactones with modest enantioselectivity Phosphonate esters have been incorporated into the diazo compound... 

The cyclopropanation of cinnamyl alcohol is a good example of the use of dioxaborolane ligand 3 as chiral additive to synthesize chiral cyclopropanes. 

Enantiopure cyclopropanes are important subunits found in several natural products. This chapter will highlight our efforts to design a stoichiometric chiral additive for the enantioselective cyclopropanation of allylic alcohols (Eq 1). Some preliminary mechanistic features of the cyclopropanation reaction in the presence of dioxaborolane 1 and related analogs will also be presented. 

Conversely, the cyclopropanation of Z-allylic alcohols produces mainly the syn- isomer. The aw//-selective cyclopropanation of chiral -allylic alcohols is quite unique since the same reaction carried in the absence of the chiral additive produces the syn isomer (48). However, the level of a /f-selectivity is highly dependant upon the nature and size of the substituents on the alkene and on the allylic position. 

The acidic site was first removed by replacing the boron center by a tetrahedral carbon. Racemic cyclopropylmethanol was obtained in quantitative yield when cinnamyl alcohol was cyclopropanated in the presence of dimethyl tartramide 5 under the usual conditions (Eq 4). This information suggests that the boron is necessary to bring the substrate and the ligand together and that the chiral additive does not act strictly as an activator of the bis(iodomethyl)zinc reagent. 

An effective, practical and readily available chiral modifier was developed for the effective enantioselective cyclopropanation of several allylic alcohols using bis(iodomethyl)zinc. Several chemical modifications have revealed a unique cooperativity between the boron acidic center and the basic amide groups. These observations and a better understanding of the structure/selectivity relationship of the chiral additive should lead to an improved cyclopropanation system. 

While generation of a Mn(V)oxo salen intermediate 8 as the active chiral oxidant is widely accepted, how the subsequent C-C bond forming events occur is the subject of some debate. The observation of frans-epoxide products from cw-olefins, as well as the observation that conjugated olefins work best support a stepwise intermediate in which a conjugated radical or cation intermediate is generated. The radical intermediate 9 is most favored based on better Hammett correlations obtained with o vs. o . " In addition, it was recently demonstrated that ring opening of vinyl cyclopropane substrates produced products that can only be derived from radical intermediates and not cationic intermediates. ... 

Alkenylcarbene complexes react with in situ-generated iodomethyllithium or dibromomethyllithium, at low temperature, to produce cydopropylcarbene complexes in a formal [2C+1S] cycloaddition reaction. This reaction is highly diastereoselective and the use of chiral alkenylcarbene complexes derived from (-)-8-phenylmenthol has allowed the enantioselective synthesis of highly interesting 1,2-disubstituted and 1,2,3-trisubstituted cyclopropane derivatives [31] (Scheme 9). As in the precedent example, this reaction is supposed to proceed through an initial 1,4-addition of the corresponding halomethyllithium derivative to the alkenylcarbene complex, followed by a spontaneous y-elimi-nation of lithium halide to produce the final cydopropylcarbene complexes. 

The Rh2(DOSP)4 catalysts (6b) of Davies have proven to be remarkably effective for highly enantioselective cydopropanation reactions of aryl- and vinyl-diazoacetates [2]. The discovery that enantiocontrol could be enhanced when reactions were performed in pentane [35] added advantages that could be attributed to the solvent-directed orientation of chiral attachments of the ligand carboxylates [59]. In addition to the synthesis of (+)-sertraline (1) [6], the uses of this methodology have been extended to the construction of cyclopropane amino acids (Eq. 3) [35], the synthesis of tricyclic systems such as 22 (Eq. 4) [60], and, as an example of tandem cyclopropanation-Cope rearrangement, an efficient asymmetric synthesis of epi-tremulane 23 (Eq. 5) [61]. 

Addition to a carbon-carbon triple bond is even more facile than addition to a carbon-carbon double bond, and there are now several reports of intermolec-ular [71] and intramolecular reactions [72-74] that produce stable cyclopropene products with moderate to high enantioselectivities. One of the most revealing examples is that shown in Scheme 9 [72] where the allylic cyclopropanation product (30) is formed by the less reactive Rh2(MEPY)4 catalyst, but macrocy-clization is favored by the more reactive Rh2(TBSP)4 and Rh2(IBAZ)4 catalysts and, as expected, the highest enantioselectivities are derived from the use of chiral dirhodium(II) carboxamidate catalysts. 

The stereoselectivity of conjugate addition and cyclopropanation of the chiral nitrovinyldioxolanes 17 can be effectively controlled <96TL6307>, and good selectivity is observed in the ultrasound-promoted cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to alkenyldioxolanes 18 <95MI877,95JOC7701 >. Asymmetric Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation of 19 proceeds with... 

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