Coordination complexes optical activity

The coordination of optically active amino acids and their methyl esters to nickel(II) complexes of l,2-bis(2-(5)-aminomethyl-l-pyrrolidinyl)ethane (24 R = H) and l,2-bis(2-(S)-N-methyl-aminomethyl-l-pyrrolidinyl)ethane (24 R=Me) has been studied.98 Some amino acidate ions coordinate stereoselectivity, as do their methyl esters, so that base hydrolysis of the esters proceeds stereoselectively. 

Germyl hydrides readily undergo oxidative addition to the low-valent coordinatively unsaturated transition-metal complexes. Optically active [Co(CO)4GeMe(l-Np)Ph] was... 

Since Werner s pioneering work on optical activity in complex inorganic compounds there have been many important developments in the field. One of the more interesting of these is known as the Pfeiffer effect which is a change in the optical rotation of a solution of an optically active substance e,g, ammonium d-a-bromo-camphor-T-sulfonate) upon the addition of solutions of racemic mixtures of certain coordination compounds (e,g, D,L-[Zn o-phen)z](NOz)2, where o-phen = ortho-phenan-throline). Not all combinations of complexes, optically active environments and solvents show the effect, however, and this work attempts to apply optical rotatory dispersion techniques to the problem, as well as to determine whether solvents other than water may be used without quenching the effect. Further, the question of whether systems containing metal ions, ligands, and optically active environments other than those already used will show the effect has been studied also,... 

Asymmetric catalysis is one of the most economical processes for the production of chiral compounds, considering the high turnover levels of most homogeneous catalysts and the fact that the optically active catalyst introduces its chiral information during each new catalytic cycle. The asymmetric catalyst molecules are mainly synthesized by coordination of optically active ligands to a metal rather than resolution of complexes in which the optical activity lies at the metal, and which are prone to racemization. These chiral complexes involve only a few metals. 

Chiral glyoxylates have been used to effect of/z o-hydroxyalkylation of phenols via coordinative complexes. In this way, optically active 2-hydroxymandehc esters have been obtained with up to 94% diastereoselectivity (36). 

Non-functionalized alkenes 6, with an isolated carbon-carbon double bond lacking an additional coordination site, can be epoxidized with high enantiomeric excess by applying the Jacobsen-Katsuki epoxidation procedure using optically active manganese(iii) complexes ... 

In an extension of this work, the Shibasaki group developed the novel transformation 48—>51 shown in Scheme 10.25c To rationalize this interesting structural change, it was proposed that oxidative addition of the vinyl triflate moiety in 48 to an asymmetric palladium ) catalyst generated under the indicated conditions affords the 16-electron Pd+ complex 49. Since the weakly bound triflate ligand can easily dissociate from the metal center, a silver salt is not needed. Insertion of the coordinated alkene into the vinyl C-Pd bond then affords a transitory 7t-allylpalladium complex 50 which is captured in a regio- and stereocontrolled fashion by acetate ion to give the optically active bicyclic diene 51 in 80% ee (89% yield). This catalytic asymmetric synthesis by a Heck cyclization/ anion capture process is the first of its kind. 

Mechanisms in the racemization of optically active coordination complexes in the solid state. P. O Brien, Polyhedron, 1983, 2,233-243 (54). 

In the skeleton of many chelating diphosphines, the phosphorus atoms bear two aryl substituents, not least because the traditional route to this class of compounds involves the nucleophilic substitution with alkali metal diarylphosphides of enantiopure ditosylates derived from optically active natural precursors, approach which is inapplicable to the preparation of P-alkylated analogs. The correct orientation of these aryl substituents in the coordination sphere has been identified as a stereo chemically important feature contributing to the recognition ability of the metal complex [11,18-20]. 

Only a few other cobalt complexes of the type covered in this review (and therefore excluding, for example, the cobalt carbonyls) have been reported to act as catalysts for homogeneous hydrogenation. The complex Co(DMG)2 will catalyze the hydrogenation of benzil (PhCOCOPh) to benzoin (PhCHOHCOPh). When this reaction is carried out in the presence of quinine, the product shows optical activity. The degree of optical purity varies with the nature of the solvent and reaches a maximum of 61.5% in benzene. It was concluded that asymmetric synthesis occurred via the formation of an organocobalt complex in which quinine was coordinated in the trans position (133). Both Co(DMG)2 and cobalamin-cobalt(II) in methanol will catalyze the following reductive methylations ... 

Associated to copper(II) pre-catalysts, bis(oxazolines) also allowed the asymmetric Diels-Alder and hetero Diels-Alder transformations to be achieved in nearly quantitative yield and high diastereo- and enantioselectivities. Optically active sulfoximines, with their nitrogen-coordinating site located at close proximity to the stereogenic sulfur atom, have also proven their efficiency as copper ligands for these asymmetric cycloadditions. Other precursors for this Lewis acid-catalyzed transformation have been described (e.g., zinc salts, ruthenium derivatives, or rare earth complexes) which, when associated to bis(oxazolines), pyridine-oxazolines or pyridine-bis(oxazolines), led to efficient catalysts. 

Asymmetric hydrosilylation can be extended to 1,3-diynes for the synthesis of optically active allenes, which are of great importance in organic synthesis, and few synthetic methods are known for their asymmetric synthesis with chiral catalysts. Catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation of butadiynes provides a possible way to optically allenes, though the selectivity and scope of this reaction are relatively low. A chiral rhodium complex coordinated with (2S,4S)-PPM turned out to be the best catalyst for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of butadiyne to give an allene of 22% ee (Scheme 3-20) [59]. 

The possibility to resolve the two enantiomers of 27a (or 26) by crystalline complexa-tion with optically active 26 (or 27a) is mainly due to differences in topological complementarity between the H-bonded chains of host and guest molecules. In this respect, the spatial relationships which affect optical resolution in the above described coordination-assisted clathrates are similar to those characterizing some optically resolved molecular complexes S4). This should encourage additional applications of the lattice inclusion phenomena to problems of chiral recognition. 

Mechanisms involving axial coordination of the optically active amine have also been invoked, and crystal structure data on RCo(DMG)2B complexes, where R is alkyl or (R)-l-(methoxycarbonyl)ethyl, and B is (R )-a-methylbenzylamine, were obtained (316, 317). Because deuteration of the (R)-methoxycarbonyl complex gave (5)-methylpropionate-2-d, it was concluded that Co—C bond cleavage occurred with inversion of configuration at the carbon (317). It would be useful to know the mechanistic details of this step, which could involve attack by D+, DCo(III), or coordinated D, as well as D2, for it is an unusual, if not unique, observation [contrast with the usual retention mechanism outlined in Eq. (39)]. 

Coordination of ammonia or a substituted ammonia to a metal ion alters markedly the N — H dissociation rate (see See. 6.4.2). Since also proton dissoeiation of complexed ammines is base-catalyzed, then exchange can be made quite slow in an aeid medium. Thus, in a eoordinated system of the type 12, containing an asymmetric nitrogen atom (and this is the only potential souree of optical activity), there is every chance for a successful resolution in acid conditions, since inversion is expected only after deprotonation. It was not until 1966 that this was suc-eessfully performed, however, using the complex ion 12. A number of Co(III), Pt(II) and Pt(IV) complexes containing sarcosine or secondary amines have been resolved and their raeemizations studied.Asymmetrie nitrogen centers appear eonfined to d and d ... 

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