Cooperative asymmetric

Jacobsen demonstrated that the (salen)Cr system used to effect intermolecular, cooperative asymmetric azidolysis of meso-epoxides (Schemes 7.3 and 7.5) could be applied to sulfur-centered nucleophiles (Scheme 7.13). In order to overcome moderate enantioselectivity (<60% ee), a dithiol nucleophile was employed as part of a double resolution strategy in which the minor enantiomer of the monoaddition product reacts preferentially to form the meso- bis-addition product, thereby increasing the ee of the C2-symmetric bis-addition product. Enantiopure 1,2-mer-capto alcohols (>99% ee) were obtained from the meso-epoxide in ca. 50% overall yield by a burdensome (though effective) multistep sequence, [23]. 

This final chapter summarizes the enzyme-catalyzed asymmetric reactions and introduces some new developments in the area of asymmetric synthesis. Among the new developments, cooperative asymmetric catalysis is an important theme because it is commonly observed in enzymatic reactions. Understanding cooperative asymmetric catalysis not only makes it possible to design more enan-tioselective asymmetric synthesis reactions but also helps us to understand how mother nature contributes to the world. 

Breinbauer, R. Jaeobsen, E. N. (2000) Cooperative asymmetric catalysis with... 

R.G. Konsler, J. Karl, E.N. Jacobsen, Cooperative asymmetric catalysis with dimeric salen complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (1998)... 

Hydrogen bonding in water is cooperative. That is, an H-bonded water molecule serving as an acceptor is a better H-bond donor than an unbonded molecule (and an HgO molecule serving as an H-bond donor becomes a better H-bond acceptor). Thus, participation in H bonding by HgO molecules is a phenomenon of mutual reinforcement. The H bonds between neighboring molecules are weak (23 kj/mol each) relative to the H—O covalent bonds (420 kj/mol). As a consequence, the hydrogen atoms are situated asymmetrically... 

In contrast, Cozzi and Umani-Ronchi found the (salen)Cr-Cl complex 2 to be very effective for the desymmetrization of meso-slilbene oxide with use of substituted indoles as nucleophiles (Scheme 7.25) [49]. The reaction is high-yielding, highly enantioselective, and takes place exclusively at sp2-hybridized C3, independently of the indole substitution pattern at positions 1 and 2. The successful use of N-alkyl substrates (Scheme 7.25, entries 2 and 4) suggests that nucleophile activation does not occur in this reaction, in stark contrast with the highly enantioselective cooperative bimetallic mechanism of the (salen)Cr-Cl-catalyzed asymmetric azidolysis reaction (Scheme 7.5). However, no kinetic studies on this reaction were reported. 

The lamellar thickening proceeds through many metastable states, each metastable state corresponding to a particular number of folds per chain, as illustrated in Fig. 8. In the original simulations of [22], Kg was monitored. Rg is actually very close to the lamellar thickness due to the asymmetric shape of the lamella. The number of folds indicated in Fig. 8 were identified by inspection of the coordinates of the united atoms. This quantization of the number of folds has been observed in experiments [50], as already mentioned. The process by which a state with p folds changes into a state with p - 1 folds is highly cooperative. The precursor lives in a quiescent state for a substantial time and suddenly it converts into the next state. By a succession of such processes, crystals thicken. If the simulation is run for a reasonably long time, the lamella settles down to the equilibrium number of folds per chain. 

In 1992, an important breakthrough appeared in the patent literature when Babin and Whiteker at Union Carbide reported the asymmetric hydroformylation of various alkenes with ees up to 90%, using bulky diphosphites derived from homochiral (2i ,4R)-pentane-2, 4-diol, UC-PP (1 19).359 360 van Leeuwen et al. studied these systems extensively. The influence of the bridge length, of the bulky substituents and the cooperativity of chiral centers on the performance of the catalyst has been reported.217 218 221 361-363... 

Jacobsen et al. reported enhanced catalytic activity by cooperative effects in the asymmetric ring opening (ARO) of epoxides.[38] Chiral Co-salen complexes (Figure 4.27) were used, which were bound to different generations of commercial PAMAM dendrimers. As a direct consequence of the second-order kinetic dependence on the [Co(salen)] complex concentration of the hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR), reduction of the catalyst loading using monomeric catalyst leads to a sharp decrease in overall reaction rate. 

Another example of this cooperative catalysis has been presented by Konsler et al.101 in the course of their asymmetric ring-opening (ARO) study. They found that the ARO of mew-epoxides with TMS-N3, catalyzed by Cr salen compound 132, showed a second-order kinetic dependence on the catalyst.102 They then proposed that there might be cooperative, intramolecular bimetallic catalysis taking place, with one metal activating the substrate mew-epoxide and... 

The development of catalytic asymmetric reactions is one of the major areas of research in the field of organic chemistry. So far, a number of chiral catalysts have been reported, and some of them have exhibited a much higher catalytic efficiency than enzymes, which are natural catalysts.111 Most of the synthetic asymmetric catalysts, however, show limited activity in terms of either enantioselectivity or chemical yields. The major difference between synthetic asymmetric catalysts and enzymes is that the former activate only one side of the substrate in an intermolecular reaction, whereas the latter can not only activate both sides of the substrate but can also control the orientation of the substrate. If this kind of synergistic cooperation can be realized in synthetic asymmetric catalysis, the concept will open up a new field in asymmetric synthesis, and a wide range of applications may well ensure. In this review we would like to discuss two types of asymmetric two-center catalysis promoted by complexes showing Lewis acidity and Bronsted basicity and/or Lewis acidity and Lewis basicity.121... 

In addition, quite recently a direct catalytic asymmetric Mannich-type reaction has been achieved by the cooperative catalysis of ALB and La(0Tf)3-nH20. 

These results represent the first ever reported evidence of strict cooperation between the steric requisites of the faujasite catalyst and the reactivity of an asymmetrical carbonate, in simultaneously inducing high methyl chemoselectivity and mono-A-methylselectivity for primary amines. 

A very successful example for the use of dendritic polymeric supports in asymmetric synthesis was recently described by Breinbauer and Jacobsen [76]. PA-MAM-dendrimers with [Co(salen)]complexes were used for the hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of terminal epoxides. For such asymmetric ring opening reactions catalyzed by [Co(salen)]complexes, the proposed mechanism involves cooperative, bimetallic catalysis. For the study of this hypothesis, PAMAM dendrimers of different generation [G1-G3] were derivatized with a covalent salen Hgand through an amide bond (Fig. 7.22). The separation was achieved by precipitation and SEC. The catalytically active [Co "(salen)]dendrimer was subsequently obtained by quantitative oxidation with elemental iodine (Fig. 7.22). 

Figure 12. Proposed mechanism for cooperative catalysis in asymmetric ring opening of epoxide by dendimeric frame work.

Several mathematical theories concerning iri vitro nucleation and polymerization of cytoskeletal proteins into linear polymeric structures have been developed. Particularly notable is the work of Oosawa and collaborators(9) on the rate limiting cooperative nucleation of actin monomers, and that of Wegner(lO) on the asymmetric ATP-driven addition and dissolution... 

Asymmetric induction and stereoregularity can be treated, at least in part, as two distinct phenomena however, it has been observed that the values of pu and Pol can be divided into two parts one dependent on chiral factors external to the chain (catalyst, environment, etc.) and the other dependent on the intramolecular chain induction. This latter is a factor of stereoregularity or cooper-ativity rather than of chirality (its value is identical for both the DD and LL successions) (328). Both factors can be expressed as differences of free energies of activation In favorable cases, when they are of the same sign, asymmetric polymerization becomes easier (i.e., under the same conditions it gives a higher optical yield) than an analogous nonmacromolecular asymmetric synthesis. 

Figure 6.23 Proposed transition states of the asymmetric 72-catalyzed cyanosilylation of ketones describe two alternative mechanistic pathways for cooperative catalysis Addition via thiourea-bound ketone (TS 1, preferred) and addition via thiourea-bound cyanide (TS 2).

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