Chiral compounds catalytic reactions

The main strategy for catalytic enantioselective cycloaddition reactions of carbonyl compounds is the use of a chiral Lewis acid catalyst. This approach is probably the most efficient and economic way to effect an enantioselective reaction, because it allows the direct formation of chiral compounds from achiral substrates under mild conditions and requires a sub-stoichiometric amount of chiral material. 

When the Pd bears chiral ligands, these reactions can be enantioselective. TT-Allylmolybdenum compounds behave similarly.Because palladium compounds are expensive, a catalytic synthesis, which uses much smaller amounts of the complex, was developed. That is, a substrate such as an allylic acetate, carbo-... 

Besides the above-mentioned catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation method for preparing fluorine-containing compounds, other reactions such as asymmetric reduction of achiral fluorine-containing ketones are also feasible methods for preparing chiral fluorinated compounds. For example, the oxazabor-olidine system, which has been discussed in Chapter 6, can also be employed in the catalytic reduction of trifluoromethyl ketones. Scheme 8 40 depicts some examples.85... 

Related phosphine-substituted derivatives were also obtained, and the chirality of the clusters demonstrated by the NMR spectra of the compounds (246). Molecules of this type have obvious utility in establishing the potential intermediacy of the polynuclear adduct in a catalytic reaction by the formation of optically active products. 

Enantioselective heterogeneous catalytic reactions are of growing interest, as optically pure chiral compounds are of great importance in different areas like fine chemical, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, flavor, and fragrance industries. 

The absolute stereochemistry for 150 (entries 2 and 3) was determined by hydrolysis and conversion to known compounds. Assuming a tetrahedral or cis octahedral geometry for the magnesium [110], the product stereochemistry is consistent with si face radical addition to an s-cis conformer of the substrate. This is the same sense of selectivity as that obtained with oxazo-lidinone crotonates or cinnamates suggesting that the rotamer geometry of the differentially substituted enoates is the same. The need for stoichiometric amount of the chiral Lewis acid to obtain high selectivity with 148 in contrast to successful catalytic reactions with crotonates is most likely a reflection of the additional donor atom present in the substrate. 

Cyclopropanation is an important synthetic method, and enantioselective catalytic reactions of olefins and diazoacetates provide access to valuable products with biological activity. In general, these reactions are conducted in anhydrous solvents and in several cases water was found to diminish the rate or selectivity (or both) of a given process. Therefore it came as a surprise, that the Cyclopropanation of styrene with (+)- or (-)-menthyl diazoacetates, catalyzed by a water-soluble Ru-complex with a chiral bis(hydroxymethyldihydrooxazolyl)pyridine (hm-pybox) ligand proceeded not only faster but with much Wgher enantioselectivity (up to 97 % e.e.) than the analogous reactions in neat THF or toluene(8-28 % e.e.) (Scheme 6.34) [72]. The fine yields and enantioselectivities may be the results of an accidental favourable match of the steric and electronic properties of hm-pybox and those of the menthyl-dizaoacetates, since the hydroxyethyl or isopropyl derivatives of the ligand proved to be inferior to the hydroxymethyl compound. Nevertheless, this is the first catalytic aqueous cyclopropanation which may open the way to other similar reactions in aqueous media. 

If equivalent or catalytic amounts of a chiral molecule (5) react with a prochiral molecule (6) — the complex (5) (6) is formed as an intermediate — to give the new chiral compounds (9a) and/or (9b), one speaks of an enantioselective reaction [Eq. (d)]. The enantioselectivity of such a reaction is given by the enantiomeric excess (ee) or by the optical yield ... 

The high level of stereocontrol in the formation of complexes 25 and 27 suggests that compounds of this type may be useful as chiral catalysts. Indeed, several examples of enantioselective catalytic reactions carried out with half-sandwich complexes have been published recently [23, 25]. However, it seemed desirable to have access to complexes of the [21 Ru(solv)2] type, which have two easily removable solvent molecules coordinated to the central metal, in order to provide coordination sites for a substrate to be transformed. Although the chloride ligand could be easily removed from 23 and 25 all attempts to strip off the PPhs were unsuccessful. Therefore a new reaction scheme was developed which precluded the use of phosphine ligands, and the bis (acetonitrile) complex 28 could be obtained in a multi-step protocol via the T1 salt T1 21 (Scheme 1.5.12) [26]. 

The catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of a,/i-unsaturated carbonyl compounds is one of the synthetically useful reactions in organic synthesis.The resulting chiral epoxides are easily converted to various useful chiral compounds. We developed a new yttrium-(5)-6,6 -[oxybis(ethylene)dioxy]biphenyl-2,2 -diol (1) (Figure 6.10)... 

When the Pd bears chiral ligands, these reactions can be enantioselective.1448 ir-Allylmo-lybdenum compounds behave similarly.1449 Because palladium compounds are expensive, a catalytic synthesis, which uses much smaller amounts of the complex, was developed. That is, a substrate such as an allylic acetate, alcohol, amine, or nitro compound1450 is treated with the nucleophile, and a catalytic amount of a palladium salt is added. The rr-allylpal-ladium complex is generated in situ. Alkene-palladium complexes (introducing the nucleophile at a vinylic rather than an allylic carbon) can also be used.1451... 

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