Cinchona polymer-supported

Polymer-supported [e.g. 8, 9] and silica-supported [10] cinchona alkaloids have been used in the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes using osmium tetroxide. Enantiomeric excesses >90% have been achieved for diols derived from styrene derivatives. 

Asymmetric induction of the Michael addition of thiols to electron-deficient alkenes (4.6.1) has been achieved in high overall conversion using both free [e.g. 12-20] and polymer-supported [e.g. 21, 22] cinchona alkaloids and their salts [23-25], but with varying degrees of optical purity. The corresponding asymmetric Michael addition of selenophenols to cyclohex-2-enones is promoted by cinchoni-dine to give a chiral product (43% ee) [26],... 

Nandanan, E. Sudalai, A. Ravindranathan, T. New Polymer Supported Cinchona Alkaloids for Heterogeneous Catalytic Asymmetric Dihydroxyla-tion of Olefins, Tetrahedron Lett. 1997, 38, 2577. 

Polymer-supported organocatalysts have been used for cycloaddition of ketene, 127, to chloral, 128 [141]. Use of homo-acrylate polymers of cinchona alkaloids led to formation of the desired /Mactone (S)-130 with enantioselectivity up to... 

Catalytic asymmetric alkylations of 28 have also been carried out with polymer-bound glycine substrates [43], or in the presence of polymer-supported cinchona alkaloid-derived ammonium salts as immobilized chiral phase-transfer catalysts [44], both of which feature their practical advantages especially for large-scale synthesis. 

Hodge, P., Khoshdel, E. and Waterhouse, J. Michael reactions catalyzed by polymer-supported quaternary ammonium-salts derived from cinchona and ephedra alkaloids, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1983, 2205-2209. 

Canali, L., Song, C. E. and Sherrington, D. C. Polymer-supported bis-cinchona alkaloid ligands for asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes - a cautionary tale. Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 1998, 9, 1029-1034. 

In 2005, Lectka and coworkers also reported a-cMorination of acid halide by using polymer-supported cinchona catalyst via a column-based flush and flow system (Scheme 6.37) [66]. To a column of quinine-bound Wang resin 126 were added 120 and 123, then the eluent (THF) was flowed by flushing to afford the corresponding a-chloroesters 125 up to 94% ee. 

Pioneering attempts at using cinchona alkaloids as a platform for chiral stationary phase preparation have been reported as early as in the mid-1950s by Grubhofer and Schleith [52]. The chiral anion exchange polymeric materials were prepared by immobilization of quinine (and other cinchona alkaloids) via the 9-hydroxyl group or quinuclidine nitrogen to a polymer support. However, this resulted in very low selectivities of these phases toward racemic mandelic acid as a test analyte. Results of the early studies have been reviewed in detail by Davankov [53]. 

The asymmetric alkylation of glycine derivatives is one of the most simple methods by which to obtain optically active a-amino acids [31]. The enantioselective alkylation of glycine Schiff base 52 under phase-transfer catalysis (PTC) conditions and catalyzed by a quaternary cinchona alkaloid, as pioneered by O Donnell [32], allowed impressive degrees of enantioselection to be achieved using only a very simple procedure. Some examples of polymer-supported cinchona alkaloids are shown in Scheme 3.14. Polymer-supported chiral quaternary ammonium salts 48 have been easily prepared from crosslinked chloromethylated polystyrene (Merrifield resin) with an excess of cinchona alkaloid in refluxing toluene [33]. The use of these polymer-supported quaternary ammonium salts allowed high enantioselectivities (up to 90% ee) to be obtained. 

PEG-supported cinchona ammonium salts 54 were applied to the asymmetric alkylation of tert-butyl benzophenone Schiff base derivatives 52 [34]. The use of a water-soluble polymer support allowed the reaction to be conducted in a 1M KOH aqueous solution to give the a-amino acid derivatives 53 in high chemical yields (up to 98%). Ten different types of electrophile have been tested for the reaction, with the best enantioselectivity being obtained with o-chlorobenzylchloride (97% ee) (Scheme 3.15). 

A few years ago Cahard reported a series of studies on the use of immobilized cinchona alkaloid derivatives in asymmetric reactions with phase-transfer catalysts [17[. Two types of polymer-supported ammonium salts of cinchona alkaloids (types A and B in Scheme 8.4) were prepared from PS, and their activity was evaluated. The enantioselectivity was found to depend heavily on the alkaloid immobilized, with the type B catalysts usually giving better results than the type A catalysts. By performing the reaction in toluene at -50 °C in the presence of an excess of solid cesium hydroxide and 0.1 mol equiv of catalyst 10, benzylation of the tert-butyl glycinate-derived benzophenone imine afforded the expected (S)-product in 67% yield with 94% ee, a value very close to that observed with the nonsupported catalyst. (Scheme 8.4, Equation b) Unfortunately-and again, inexplicably-the pseudoenantiomer of 10 proved to be much less stereoselective, affording the R)-product in only 23% ee. No mention of catalyst recycling was reported [18]. 

Scheme 8.7 Insoluble polymer-supported cinchona alkaloids.

A member of the new ligand class for the asymmetric dihydroxylation is the bis(dihydroquinidine) ether of l,4-dihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone. Cinchona alkaloid ligands bound to soluble polymer supports" are effective catalysts for asymmetric dihydroxylation. 

Despite the many studies reported, only two combinations of catalytic and modifying functions have emerged as commercial possibilities, tartrate-modified catalysts and cinchona-modified catalysts. The substrates that have been most studied are the a, -ketoesters, and the polymer support most frequently used is preformed styrene-DVB(2%) resin. Asymmetric ligand monomers that contain asymmetric ligand sites have also been synthesized. 

In addition, in 2(X)4 Mamoka and co-workers [72] synthesized a recyclable fluorous chiral phase-transfer catalyst which was successfully applied for the catalytic asymmetric alkylation of a glycine-imine derivative followed by extractive recovery of the chiral phase-transfer catalyst using fluorous solvent. Later, in 2010 Itsuno and co-workers [73] published a new type of polymer-supported quarternary ammonium catalysts based on either cinchona alkaloids or Maruoka s-type catalyst bound via ionic bonds to the polymeric sulfonates. 

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