Cobalt complexes epoxides

Another application of salen ligands is the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of epoxides (Scheme 3). For this purpose cobalt complexes are efficient, and fiu-... 

Pozzi and co-workers have also reported a fluorous soluble cobalt complex, which is active in the aerobic epoxidation of alkenes in a fluorous biphasic system (FBS).[50] The ligand used in this complex was a fluorinated tetraarylporphyrin, with eight perfluorooctyl chains shown in Figure 6.13. The cobalt complex was dissolved in perfluorohexane and added to a solution of the alkene with 2-methylpropanal (aldehyde substrate — 2 1) at room temperature. 

Carbonylative kinetic resolution of a racemic mixture of trans-2,3-epoxybutane was also investigated by using the enantiomerically pure cobalt complex [(J ,J )-salcy]Al(thf)2 [Co(CO)4] (4) [28]. The carbonylation of the substrate at 30 °C for 4h (49% conversion) gave the corresponding cis-/3-lactone in 44% enantiomeric excess, and the relative ratio (kre ) of the rate constants for the consumption of the two enantiomers was estimated to be 3.8, whereas at 0 °C, kte = 4.1 (Scheme 6). This successful kinetic resolution reaction supports the proposed mechanism where cationic chiral Lewis acid coordinates and activates an epoxide. 

The first successful example of a co-polymerization was reported by Furukawa a/, in 1965." Using a mixture of AlEt3, H2O, and Co(acac)3, EO or PO co-polymerizes with GO to produce the corresponding polyesters. Although no advances were made in the following three decades, some cobalt complexes have recently been developed as active catalysts for the alternating co-polymerization of epoxides with GO. Rieger and Osakada indepen-... 

Enantiomer-differentiating co-polymerization of terminal epoxides is achieved by chiral chromium and cobalt complexes. Jacobsen etal. reported the co-polymerization of 1-hexene oxide with GO2 by using complex 35a. The reaction proceeds with kinetic resolution at 90% conversion, the unreacted epoxide is found to be enriched in the (i )-enantiomer of 90% ee. Detailed information about the resultant polymer, however, is not described. As discussed in the previous section, chiral cobalt-salen complex 34c co-polymerizes PO and GO2 (Table 3). When 34c with /r<3 / j--(li ,2i )-diaminocyclohexane backbone is applied to the co-polymerization, (A)-PO is consumed preferentially over (i )-enantiomer with a of 2.8 to give optically active PPG (Equation (8)). In a similar manner, a binary catalyst system, 34d/Bu4NGl, preferentially consumes (A)-PO over R)-PO with = 2.8-3.5. ... 

Ring-opening silylformylation has been observed by Murai and coworkers in reactions of cyclic ethers. When the cobalt complex Co2(CO)8 is used as the catalyst in reactions of epoxides, an excess of substrate is required to prevent further reaction of the product siloxy aldehyde.1192 Further investigation led to the discovery of [RhCl(CO)2]2/l-methyl-pyrazole as an effective catalyst combination for the reaction of oxi-ranes119b and oxetanes.J19c For example, oxetane undergoes silylformylation to give 4-(dimethylphenylsiloxy)butanal in 81% yield [Eq. (45)]. 

The catalytic isomerization of meso-epoxides to allylic alcohols has been achieved with chiral cobalt complexes, in particular with cobalamin (vitamin B12) [47, 48]. 

Treatment of epoxy-alkyne derivatives 314 with dicobalthexacarbonyl [Co2(CO)6] and a catalytic quantity of Lewis acid, followed by oxidative demetallation of the intermediate cobalt complex 315 affords 2-alkynyl-3-acetoxy tetrahydropyrans 316 in excellent yield. Syn- or tf /7-tetrahydropyrans are obtained by selection of either the anti- or syn- starting epoxides 314 respectively (Scheme 79, Table 10) <1998T823, 2000JOC6761>. 

Cobalt complexes derived from Schiff bases 388 catalyzed the hydroxyacylation of electron-deficient alkenes (Fig. 90) [431, 432]. Thus, methyl acrylate 387 reacted with aliphatic aldehydes 386 in the presence of 5 mol% of the in situ generated catalyst, molecular oxygen, and acetic anhydride to 2-acyloxy-4-oxoesters 389 in 56-77% yield. When acetic anhydride was omitted, the yields of products were lower and mixtures of the free hydroxy compounds and acylated compounds resulting from Tishchenko reactions were obtained. Electron-rich alkenes did not undergo the transformation, since the addition of the acyl radical is much slower. The acylcobalt species inserts oxygen instead and acts as an epoxidation catalyst. 

Table 6. Enantioselective ring-opening of epoxides catalyzed by chiral salen chromium and cobalt complexes.

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. 

S,I2S)-2,I2- diacetoxydecane OAc OAc Pea midges (Coniarinia pixi) F Kinetic rcsointion of terminal epoxides by Cobalt-complex 1161]... 

Epoxidation of Alkenes Catalyzed by Porphyrin Cobalt Complexes... 

The synthesis is a catalogue of modern asymmetric catalytic methods. The epoxide 25 was resolved by a hydrolytic kinetic resolution (chapter 28) using a synthetic asymmetric cobalt complex. The asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction (chapter 26) was catalysed by a synthetic chromium... 

Another privileged structure is the salen complex we have already seen as the catalyst 199 for Jacobsen epoxidations. Here the equivalent cobalt complex 235 is used to catalyse the opening of an achiral epoxide.53... 

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