Salen chromium complexes

Baleizao, C. Gigante, B. Sabater, M. J. Garcia, H. Corma, A. (2002) On the activity of chiral chromium salen complexes covalently bound to solid silicates for the enantioselective epoxide ring o emag Applied Catalysis A General 228 279-288. 

Ghromium complexes have been found to promote the co-polymerization of epoxides with G02- Recently, Darensbourg et al. have demonstrated that the chromium-salen complexes, remarkably more stable to the air and moisture than zinc-based co-polymerization catalysts, are effective catalysts for the co-polymerization of GHO with G02. " Under the condition of 5.9MPa GO2 pressure at 80 °G, complex 35a transforms GHO to the completely alternating co-polymer with a TON of 250 mol (mol of Zn) and a TOF of 10 mol (mol of Zn) h along with a small amount of eyelie earbonate production (Table 7). 

Table 7 Alternating co-polymerization of epoxide with CO2 catalyzed by chromium-salen complexes...

Mirkin and coworkers reported on catalytic molecular tweezers used in the asymmetric ring opening of cyclohexene oxide. In this case the early transition metal is the catalyst and rhodium functions as the structural inductor metal. The catalyst consists of two chromium salen complexes, the reaction is known to be bimetallic, and a switchable rhodium complex, using carbon monoxide as the switch. Indeed, when the salens are forced in dose proximity in the absence of CO the rate is twice as high and the effect is reversible [77]. 

Jacobsen s cobalt and chromium salen complexes 69 and 70 have proven extremely successful in the enantioselective ring opening of meso-epoxides (and kinetic resolution of racemic epoxides). Recent accounts of these most efficient and practical catalysts can be found elsewhere [71-73]. 

Bruns and Haufe have described the first examples of a transition metal complex mediated asymmetric ring opening (ARO) of both meso- and racemic epoxides via formal hydro-fluorination [23]. Initial attempts with chiral Euln complexes led to very low asymmetric induction. Opening of cyclohexene oxide 30 with potassium hydrogendifluoride in the presence of 18-crown-6 and a stoichiometric amount of Jacobsens chiral chromium salen complex 29 [24a] finally yielded two products 31 and 32 in a 89 11 ratio and 92% combined yield, the desired product 31 being formed with 55% ee. Limiting 29 to a catalytic amount of 10 mol% led to an increase in the ratio of 31, however, with the enantiomeric excess dropping to 11% (Scheme 5). 

Fig. 18 Representative examples of homogeneous catalysts for CO epoxide copolymerization Inoue s tetraphenylporphyrin aluminium chloride complex (a), zinc hw-2,6-fluorophenoxide complex (b), zinc (3-diiminate complex (c) and chromium-salen complex (d)...

A similar approach to the hydrolytic methodology uses a chromium-salen complex to open an epoxide with trimethylsilyl azide, as illustrated by the synthesis of the antihypertensive agent, (S)-propranolol (10) (Scheme 9.15).118,119... 

Scheme 22. Asymmetric amplification in the opening of meso epoxides with TMSN3 catalyzed by a chiral chromium-salen complex.66...

Chromium-salen complexes have been used for the reaction between styrene epoxide and scC02 in [C4Ciim][PF6], as illustrated in Scheme 9.15.1601 At low catalyst concentrations, 1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol was detected as a by-product while at a catalyst loading of ca. 0.35 mol%, 100% selectivity was obtained. Recycling of the catalyst was possible, but the ionic liquid phase needed to be exhaustively purified with volatile organic solvents prior to its reuse. 

Chromium(salen) catalysts are excellent reagents for the desymmetrization of OT to-epoxides. Thus, tfr-stilbene oxide is converted to the (3, 3 )-aminoalcohol in the presence of catalytic quantities of chromium-salen complex in methylene chloride solution open to the atmosphere. The addition of small quantities of triethylamine was found to dramatically increase enantioselectivities (by almost 25%). This catalytic system also promotes an efficient aminolytic kinetic resolution (AKR) of racemic epoxides with 2-type symmetry (Equation 18) <20040L2173, 1999TL7303>. W fo-Epoxides can be opened with aromatic amines in water in the presence of 1 mol% of an Sc(ni) catalyst ligated to 1.2mol% of a chiral bipyridine ligand <2005OL4593>. 

A similar approach uses the chromium-Salen complex (149) to open racemic terminal epoxides in a highly efficient resolution pro-... 

Apart from the commonly used NaOCl, urea—H2O2 has been used/ With this reaction, simple alkenes can be epoxi-dized with high enantioselectivity. The mechanism of this reaction has been examined.Radical intermediates have been suggested for this reaction, polymer-bound Mn -salen complex, in conjunction with NaOCl, has been used for asymmetric epoxidation. Chromium-salen complexes and ruthenium-salen complexes have been used for epoxidation. Manganese porphyrin complexes have also been used. Cobalt complexes give similar results. A related epoxidation reaction used an iron complex with molecular oxygen and isopropanal. Nonracemic epoxides can be prepared from racemic epoxides with salen-cobalt(II) catalysts following a modified procedure for kinetic resolution. 

A. M. Daly, M. F. Renehan, D. G. Gilheany, High enantioselectivities in an (E)-alkene epoxidation by catalytically active chromium salen complexes. Insight into the catalytic cycle, Org. Lett. 3 (2001) 663. 

Jacobsen and his co-workers have showed a chromium salen complex (2 mol.%) and McaSiNs induced ring-opening reaction of cyclohexene oxide in enantioselective manner under solvent-free conditions (Scheme 5.42). To avoid the use of organic solvent the product was isolated by short-path distillation under reduced pressure directly from the reaction mixture. 

This is all very well but what about using dienes which are more typically electron rich (with one oxygen substituent instead of two) 255 in combination with normal aliphatic aldehydes 256 A catalyst that could achieve this would be very useful. One solution is a modification of the chromium salen complex which replaces half the salen with an adamantyl group and the other half with d.v-aminoindanol 209. The synthesis of this complex 258 is straightforward since commercially available compounds 257 and 209 are combined in high-yielding reactions and the complex itself is impressively enantioselective.58 The hexafluoroantimonate catalyst 260 was more enantioselective than the corresponding chloride 259. 

While the a-allylation of enolates occurs with high ee using palladium catalysts (see Section 10.2) there have been few reports on the enantioselective metal-catalysed enolate alkylation. The best results to date have been achieved by Doyle and lacobsen using the chromium(salen) complex (12.42) in the alkylation of cyclic tin enolates with a range of alkyl halides, including propargyl and benzylic hahdes... 

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