Chiral ligands enantioselectivity

It may be concluded from the different examples shown here that the enantioselective copper-catalyzed allylic substitution reaction needs further improvement. High enantioselectivities can be obtained if chirality is present in the leaving group of the substrate, but with external chiral ligands, enantioselectivities in excess of 90% ee have only been obtained in one system, limited to the introduction of the sterically hindered neopentyl group. 

They have also developed a catalytic version of the reaction in which the chiral ligand DIPT was used in 20 mol% (379-381). In spite of the reduction of the amount of the chiral ligand, enantioselectivities of up to 93% ee were obtained in this work. The addition of a small amount of 1,4-dioxane proved to be crucial for the enantioselectivity of the reaction. A proposal for the reaction mechanism is outlined in Scheme 12.88. Allyl alcohol, hydroximoyl chloride 274 and diethylzinc react to form 276, which is mixed with the ligand and an additional amount of... 

Keywords. Organolithiums, Carbamates, Chiral Ligands, Enantioselectivity, Deprotonation... 

The reaction has also been applied to another intramolecular version where a cychzation occurs in the second step (Scheme 2)P With the use of chiral ligands enantioselectivities of up to 80% ee were obtained. Thus, with ligand 3, dieneamine 4 and aryltriflates 5a and 5b gave the corresponding products, 6a and 6b in 70% and 77% ee, respectively. Attempts to use BINAP as the ligand in these reactions were unsuccessful and gave low levels of enantioselectivity (12% ee). 

A remarkable rate enhancement of palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation in water using non-water-soluble ligands was observed in the presence of surfactants, and when BINAP was used as the chiral ligand, enantioselectivities up to 94% ee were obtained in the allylic alkylation of l,3-diphenyl-3-acetoxyprop-l-ene with carbon nucleophiles (Scheme... 

Functionalization of Azaferrocene Catalysts. Chiral azaferrocenes are highly useful in enantioselective acylation as nucleophilic catalysts, and in transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions as chiral ligands. Enantioselective lithiation of an azaferrocene moiety followed by functionalization with (TMS0)2 resulted in a lateral hydroxyl-substituted product with excellent optical purity, but in poor yield (eq 7). The low yield was attributed to the poor reactivity of (TMSO)2 toward the labile azaferrocene substrate. 

Addition to Carbonyls, Imines (Strecker-type Reactions), and Heteroaromatic Rings (Reissert-type Reactions). Cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers are of significant synthetic interest as they can be transformed into a variety of multifunctional intermediates. Aldehydes and ketones can be enantioselectively converted to cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers when treated with cyanotrimethylsilane in the presence of a Lewis acid and a chiral ligand. Enantioselective and/or diastereoselective formation of cyanohydrins and their derivatives has been reported and most of these reactions involve chiral ligands and metal catalysts containing Ti (eq 24), Sm (eq 25), and A1 (eq 26). ... 

Catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation was one of the first enantioselective synthetic methods used industrially (82). 2,2 -Bis(diarylphosphino)-l,l -binaphthyl (BINAP) is a chiral ligand which possesses a Cg plane of symmetry (Fig. 9). Steric interactions prevent interconversion of the (R)- and (3)-BINAP. Coordination of BINAP with a transition metal such as mthenium or rhodium produces a chiral hydrogenation catalyst capable of inducing a high degree of enantiofacial selectivity (83). Naproxen (41) is produced in 97% ee by... 

Efficient enantioselective asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral ketones and olefins has been accompHshed under mild reaction conditions at low (0.01— 0.001 mol %) catalyst concentrations using rhodium catalysts containing chiral ligands (140,141). Practical synthesis of several optically active natural... 

The hydride-donor class of reductants has not yet been successfully paired with enantioselective catalysts. However, a number of chiral reagents that are used in stoichiometric quantity can effect enantioselective reduction of acetophenone and other prochiral ketones. One class of reagents consists of derivatives of LiAlH4 in which some of die hydrides have been replaced by chiral ligands. Section C of Scheme 2.13 shows some examples where chiral diols or amino alcohols have been introduced. Another type of reagent represented in Scheme 2.13 is chiral trialkylborohydrides. Chiral boranes are quite readily available (see Section 4.9 in Part B) and easily converted to borohydrides. 

To overcome these problems with the first generation Brmsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acid 7, Yamamoto and coworkers developed in 1996 a second-generation catalyst 8 containing the 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid moiety [10b,d] (Scheme 1.15, 1.16, Table 1.4, 1.5). The catalyst was prepared from a chiral triol containing a chiral binaphthol moiety and 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid, with removal of water. This is a practical Diels-Alder catalyst, effective in catalyzing the reaction not only of a-substituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes, but also of a-unsubstituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes. In each reaction, the adducts were formed in high yields and with excellent enantioselectivity. It also promotes the reaction with less reactive dienophiles such as crotonaldehyde. Less reactive dienes such as isoprene and cyclohexadiene can, moreover, also be successfully employed in reactions with bromoacrolein, methacrolein, and acrolein dienophiles. The chiral ligand was readily recovered (>90%). 

We therefore prepared a new chiral ligand, (l ,J )-isopropylidene-2,2 -bis[4-(o-hy-droxybenzyl)oxazoline)], hereafter designated J ,J -BOX/o-HOBn. To our delight, the copper(II) complex catalyst prepared from J ,J -BOX/o-HOBn ligand and Cu(OTf)2 was quite effective (Scheme 7.45). Especially, the reaction of O-benzylhydroxylamine with l-crotonoyl-3-isopropyl-2-imidazolidinone in dichloromethane (0.15 m) at -40°C in the presence of J ,J -BOX/o-HOBn-Cu(OTf)2 (10 mol%) provided the maximum enantioselectivity of 94% ee. 

Another important reaction associated with the name of Sharpless is the so-called Sharpless dihydroxylation i.e. the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes upon treatment with osmium tetroxide in the presence of a cinchona alkaloid, such as dihydroquinine, dihydroquinidine or derivatives thereof, as the chiral ligand. This reaction is of wide applicability for the enantioselective dihydroxylation of alkenes, since it does not require additional functional groups in the substrate molecule ... 

One of the most intensively studied protic chiral ligands, which moreover allows enantioselectivities of up to 95% ee, is the proline-derived (25 )-l- [(25,)-l-methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl]methyl -2-pyrrolidine methanol (6)19-21. 

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