Chiraphos,

Oxidative addition of H2 and Ph3SiH to IrBr(CO)(chiraphos), where chiraphos 2,S, 3,S -bis (diphenylphosphino)butane, leads to stable kinetic (115a,115b), followed by thermodynamic (116a,116b) diastereomers as shown in reaction Scheme 15.2 3 The crystal structure of cis-[IrH2(chiraphos)2]BF4 has been reported.204... 

Platinum(II) complexes with diphosphines based on DIOP (85),315-321 CHIRAPHOS (86),316,320 and bdpp (87)322-325 backbones have been prepared to be used, in the presence of SnCl2, as catalyst precursors in asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene and other alkenes. 

CHIRAPHOS (86), bdpp (87), DIOP (85), deguphos (117), and related chiral diphosphines have been used as ligands in asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene and related substrates.255 347-349... 

Early work in the field of asymmetric hydroboration employed norbornene as a simple unsaturated substrate. A range of chiral-chelating phosphine ligands were probed (DIOP (5), 2,2 -bis(diphenyl-phosphino)-l,l -binaphthyl (BINAP) (6), 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane (CHIRAPHOS) (7), 2,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane (BDPP) (8), and l,2-(bis(o-methoxyphenyl)(phenyl)phos-phino)ethane) (DIPAMP) (9)) in combination with [Rh(COD)Cl]2 and catecholborane at room temperature (Scheme 8).45 General observations were that enantioselectivities increased as the temperature was lowered below ambient, but that variations of solvent (THF, benzene, or toluene) had little impact. 

The five-membered ring chelate ligands (CHIRAPHOS (7) and DIPAMP (9)) showed poor activity. DIOP (5) was found to be more effective than BINAP (6), while no real improvements in the levels of asymmetric induction were found by using cationic complexes [Rh(COD)(L-L)]+ instead of neutral systems. 

The catalyst system employed was the cationic rhodium solvent complex [Rh(P-P)S2]+ (P-P = BINAP, CHIRAPHOS, S = solvent). The BINAP ligand enhances the activity of the complex (Table 10), although additional studies have revealed that both the solvent and the substituents on Si influence the levels of enantioselectivity (Scheme 29).131,132... 

Recently, a series of chiral diphosphines (S. -Me-Duphos, (S. -chiraphos, (R,R)-diop and (+)-Norphos were grafted after an ionic exchange onto Al-MCM-41 134 complexes of the form [Rh(cod)(diphosphine)]+ were tested for the hydrogenation of dimethylitaconate. The supported complex with (S,S)-methyl-Duphos reached an activity for the formation of dimethyl ( -methyl-succinate as high as TON = 4000 with an ee close to 92%. Both (R,R)-diop and (,S S )-chiraphos give lower enantioselectivities (ee = 34% and 47% respectively). With (+)-Norphos, dimethyl-([Pg.457]

Remarkable success has been achieved by Fryzuk and Bosnich (247) using the complex [Rh(5,5-chiraphos)(COD)]+, where the chiral ligand 25,55-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, a diphosphine chiral at carbons (25), is readily synthesized from 2R,3R-butane diol. TheZ-isomers of the prochiral a-N-acylaminoacrylic acid substrates were hydrogenated at ambient conditions to / -products with very high enantiomeric excess indeed, leucine and phenylalanine derivatives were obtained in complete optical purity. Catalytic deuteration was shown to lead to pure chiral f3-carbon centers as well as a-carbon centers in the leucine and phenylal-... 

It was not until 1995 that a synthetically useful enantioselective hydroalumination was first described.123 The early attempts to develop enantioselective hydroalumination used chiral phosphines such as prophos, chiraphos 26, and BINAP 23 as ligands. The most successful of these was BINAP with ee s of 56% being obtained (entry 1, Table 11). 

A related chiral complex [Ru(//-I b,)(chiraphos)]+ has been used for... 

Norton and coworkers found that catalytic enantioselective hydrogenation of the C=N bond of iminium cations can be accomplished using a series of Ru complexes with chiral diphosphine ligands such as Chiraphos and Norphos [68], Even tetra-alkyl-substituted iminium cations can be hydrogenated by this method. These reactions were carried out with 2 mol.% Ru catalyst and 3.4—3.8 bar H2 at room temperature in CH2C12 solvent (Eq. (39)). 

As already stated, DIOP led the way for a number of ligand systems that were built on a carbon framework containing stereogenic centers. Some of these ligands followed closely on the heels of DIOP, such as ChiraPhos (16) where the chelate ring is five-membered [82, 83]. Even one stereogenic center in the backbone, as in ProPhos (17), provides reasonable selectivity [83, 84]. The main problem with these systems is that of slow reactions. 

Fig. 31.2 Typically (DIPAMP, CHIRAPHOS), the intramolecular exchange of Re and Si complexes is several times faster than the dissociation to reform the solvate complex.

Recently, Borner and coworkers described an efficient Rh-deguphos catalyst for the reductive amination of a-keto acids with benzyl amine. E.e.-values up to 98% were obtained for the reaction of phenyl pyruvic acid and PhCH2COCOOH (entry 4.9), albeit with often incomplete conversion and low TOFs. Similar results were also obtained for several other a-keto acids, and also with ligands such as norphos and chiraphos. An interesting variant for the preparation of a-amino acid derivatives is the one-pot preparation of aromatic a-(N-cyclohexyla-mino) amides from the corresponding aryl iodide, cyclohexylamine under a H2/ CO atmosphere catalyzed by Pd-duphos or Pd-Trost ligands [50]. Yields and ee-values were in the order of 30-50% and 90 >99%, respectively, and a catalyst loading of around 4% was necessary. 

In general, the chiral ligands are water-soluble variants of those already studied in purely organic solvents (e.g., the sulfonated chiraphos, A, cyclobutane-diop, C, BDPP, F, MeOBIPHEP-TS, Q, BIFAPS, R and the quaternary ammonium derivatives of diop, D, BDPP, E). Solubility in water could also be achieved by attaching the parent phosphine molecule to a water-soluble polymer (J, M, P). The chiral phosphinites and phosphines derived from carbohydrates (e.g., K and L) have intrinsic solubility in water. During studies of one-phase... 

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