Chiral oligomeric

In 1978 Lahav et al. (Weizmann Institute, Israel) succeeded in an absolute asymmetric syntheses of chiral oligomeric crystals by the four-center polymerization of achiral monomer. 

Preparation of the chiral oligomeric building blocks (reprinted from reference copyright 2003, American Chemical Society). 

Platinum-thiourea complexes have been extensively studied because of their biological activity [54], but few have been used in catalysis. Neutral thioureas are able to coordinate to metal centres through their sulfur atom (Scheme 9) [55,56] monomeric (I) and oligomeric (II) species are known for Rh [57], and an X-ray structure has also been determined for the chiral complex III [58]. In many complexes hydrogen bonding has been observed... 

Enzymatic enantioselective oligomerization of a symmetrical hydroxy diester, dimethyl /Lhydroxyglutarate, produced a chiral oligomer (dimer or trimer) with 30-37% ee [24]. PPL catalyzed the enantioselective polymerization of e-substituted-e-hydroxy esters to produce optically active oligomers (DP < 6) [25]. The enantioselectivity increased with increasing bulkiness of the monomer substituent. Optically active polyesters with molecular weight of more than 1000 were obtained by the copolymerization of the racemic oxyacid esters with methyl 6-hydroxyhexanoate. 

Thus, chiral precatalysts includ-RuCl2[(R)-binap](dmf) (oligomeric [NH2(C2H5)2][ RuCl[(R)-binap] 2-... 

The hydrovinylation reaction, the codimerization of ethene and styrene (Scheme 2), provides easy access to chiral building blocks from inexpensive hydrocarbon feedstocks, which can be used further for the preparation of fine chemicals. Key problems in this reaction include the selectivity of the reaction and the stability of the catalyst. The main side reactions are oligomerization and isomerization of the product to internal achiral alkenes. The latter reaction can be suppressed by... 

The authors also investigated the mode of activation of these BINOL-derived catalysts. They proposed an oligomeric structure, in which one Ln-BINOL moiety acts as a Brpnsted base, that deprotonates the hydroperoxide and the other moiety acts as Lewis acid, which activates the enone and controls its orientation towards the oxidant . This model explains the observed chiral amplification effect, that is the ee of the epoxide product exceeds the ee of the catalyst. The stereoselective synthesis of cw-epoxyketones from acyclic cw-enones is difficult due to the tendency of the cw-enones to isomerize to the more stable fraw5-derivatives during the oxidation. In 1998, Shibasaki and coworkers reported that the ytterbium-(f )-3-hydroxymethyl-BINOL system also showed catalytic activity for the oxidation of aliphatic (Z)-enones 129 to cw-epoxides 130 with good yields... 

The effect of additives on Shibasaki s lanthanide-BINOL catalysts has been investigated by Inanaga and coworkers. From a variety of additives, triphenylphosphine oxide turned out to be the best one improving, for example, the obtained ee for the chalcone epoxide from 73% to 96% (Table 16) . The explanation for the positive effect of the additive was the disruption of the oligomeric structure of the catalyst by coordination of the phosphine oxide. As a consequence, epoxidation takes place in the coordination sphere of the ytterbium where the reaction site might become closer to the chiral binaphthyl ring due to the phosphine oxide ligand with suitable steric buUdness. In contrast to the Shibasaki... 

Ferrocenylphosphine-gold complexes, 225 Formaldehyde oligomerization, 332 Formic acid, transfer hydrogenation, 123 Formulas, chiral compounds, xiii-xvii Four-dimensional chemistty. See Asymmetric catalysis... 

The combination of the nonpalindromic nature of the peptide backbone and the chirality of the a-carbons in the amino acids comprising the oligomeric structure provides a unique opportunity for vast stereochemical and topochemical diversities. Earlier studies explored the interesting structural relationship between all-L-, retro-all-L-peptides, and their enantiomers (see reviews[1 3]). Schematically, a high degree of topochemical complementarity is obtained between parent cyclic peptides and their retro-inverso analogues.11 ... 

These deviations from linearity indicate the existence of an oligomeric distribution of chiral ligands. Noyori proposed a rationale as follows Due to the different dissociability (stability) of homochiral and heterochiral dimer, the enantiopurity of the remaining reactive catalyst (monomer) is improved as compared with that of the submitted chiral ligand 6 (Scheme 9.5) [11]. Heterochiral dimer is thermodynamically more stable than homochiral dimer, which is consistent with Noyori s rationale mentioned above [12a]. An ab initio molecular orbital study was also reported in a simplified model reaction between formaldehyde and dimethylzinc catalyzed by achiral 2-aminoethanol [12b]. 

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