Chiral ligand acceleration

Sharpless et al. have emphasized the significance of chiral ligand acceleration [3] through the construction of an asymmetric catalyst from an achiral pre-catalyst via ligand exchange with a chiral ligand. By contrast, an achiral pre-catalyst combined with several chiral ligand components (L, L, ---------) may selectively as-... 

The 1,2-diol is liberated easily from cyclic osmate ester by either reductive or oxidative hydrolysis.213 Importantly, the ligand acceleration has been utilized extensively for the production of chiral 1,2-diols from (achiral) olefins using optically active amine bases (such as L = dihydroquinidine, dihydroquinine and various chiral diamine ligands).215... 

As to most chiral atropisomeric ligand, resolution or asymmetric synthesis is requisite. Mikami developed a novel ligand-accelerated catalyst. The chirality of atropos, but achiral triphos ligand-Ru complex, can be controlled by chiral diamines. Using ( -dm-dabn as controller, the single diastereomeric triphos-Ru complex was achieved through isomerization of (i )-triphos-Ru complex in dichloroethane at 80 °G (Scheme l).44... 

Yang12 has effected an intramolecular asymmetric carbonyl-ene reaction between an alkene and an a-keto ester. Reaction optimization studies were performed by changing the Lewis acid, solvent, and chiral ligand. Ligand-accelerated catalysis was observed for Sc(OTf)3, Cu(OTf)2, and Zn(OTf)2 (Equation (6)). The resulting optically active m-l-hydroxyl-2-allyl esters provide an entry into multiple natural products. 

The first attempt to effect the asymmetric cw-dihydroxylation of olefins with osmium tetroxide was reported in 1980 by Hentges and Sharpless.54 Taking into consideration that the rate of osmium(VI) ester formation can be accelerated by nucleophilic ligands such as pyridine, Hentges and Sharpless used 1-2-(2-menthyl)-pyridine as a chiral ligand. However, the diols obtained in this way were of low enantiomeric excess (3-18% ee only). The low ee was attributed to the instability of the osmium tetroxide chiral pyridine complexes. As a result, the naturally occurring cinchona alkaloids quinine and quinidine were derived to dihydroquinine and dihydroquinidine acetate and were selected as chiral... 

As mentioned in Chapter 1, ligand-accelerated catalysis occurs when a more effective chiral catalyst is obtained by replacing an achiral ligand with a chiral one. Mikami et al.89 reported a different phenomenon in which a more active catalyst was formed by combining an achiral pre-catalyst with several chiral ligands. They found that the most active and enantioselective chiral catalyst was formed in preference to other possible ligand combinations (Scheme 8 43). 

It should be noted that the reaction of benzalde-hyde with (Z)-3-trimethylsiloxy-2-pentene in ethanol or dichloromethane in the presence of the chiral catalyst resulted in a much lower yield and selectivity. On the basis of these results, we propose the catalytic cycle shown in Scheme 2. The catalyst A formed from Cu(OTf)2 and a bis(oxazoline) ligand accelerates the aldol reaction to generate the intermediate B. In aqueous solvents, B is rapidly hydrolyzed to produce the aldol product C and regener-... 

As a result of the catalytic center-chiral entity interaction the reaction rate accelerates substantially. This phenomenon was described for the first time by Sharpless [6], who coined the term ligand accelerated catalysis. Unfortunately, the reasons for this phenomenon are still not well... 

About a decade after the discovery of the asymmetric epoxidation described in Chapter 14.2, another exciting discovery was reported from the laboratories of Sharpless, namely the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes using osmium tetroxide. Osmium tetroxide in water by itself will slowly convert alkenes into 1,2-diols, but as discovered by Criegee [15] and pointed out by Sharpless, an amine ligand accelerates the reaction (Ligand-Accelerated Catalysis [16]), and if the amine is chiral an enantioselectivity may be brought about. 

Recently, the intramolecular nitrile oxide-alkene cycloaddition sequence was used to prepare spiro- w(isoxazolines), which are considered useful as chiral ligands for asymmetric synthesis (321). Reaction of the dibutenyl-dioxime (164) (derived from the diester 163) with sodium hypochlorite afforded a mixture of diastereomeric isoxazolines 165-167 in 74% combined yield (Scheme 6.80) (321). It was discovered that a catalytic amount of the Cu(II) complex 165-Cu(acac)2, where acac = acetylacetonate, significantly accelerated the reaction of diisopropylzinc... 

The relative frontier molecular orbital (FMO) energies of the reagents are very important for the catalytic control of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions. In order to control the stereochemical outcome of a reaction with a substoichiometric amount of a ligand-metal catalyst, it is desirable that a large rate acceleration is obtained in order to assure that the reaction only takes place in the sphere of the metal and the chiral ligand. The FMO considerations will be outlined in the following using nitrones as an example. 

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