Methacrolein, with cyclopentadiene

Cross-linked polymers bearing IV-sulfonyl amino acids as chiral ligands were converted to polymer bound oxazaborolidine catalysts by treatment with borane or bromoborane. In the cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein, these catalysts afforded the same enantioselectivities as their non-polymeric counterparts238. 

The high stereopreference was rationalized by considering complex 388 in which an attractive n-n donor-acceptor interaction favors co-ordination of the dienophile to the face of the boron center which is cis to the 2-hydroxyphenyl substituent. Hydrogen bonding of the hydroxyl proton of the 2-hydroxyphenyl group to an oxygen of the adjacent B—O bond played an important role in the asymmetric induction. Protection of this hydroxy functionality with a benzyl group caused reversal of enantioselectivity in the cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein (model 389)244. 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction. Although the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein... 

Kobayashi et al. developed chiral Lewis acids derived from A -benzyldiphenylproli-nol and boron tribromide and used these successfully as catalysts in enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions [89]. The corresponding polymeric catalyst 71 was prepared and used for the Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein [90]. Different polymeric catalysts 72, 73, 74 were prepared from supported chiral amino alcohols and diols fimctionalized with boron, aluminum and titanium [88,90]. In these polymers copolymerization of styrene with a chiral auxiliary containing two polymerizable groups is a new approach to the preparation of crosslinked chiral polymeric ligands. This chiral monomer unit acts as chiral ligand and as a crosslink. 

The same reaction has also been catalyzed by chiral oxazaborolidinones derived from amino acids and boranes. They proved to be efficient catalysts for enantioselec-tive Diels-Alder reaction [91,92]. The polymer-supported chiral oxazaborolidinones 75 were reported to be efficient catalysts [93]. These polymer-supported chiral oxaza-borolidinone ligands were prepared both by chemical modification and by the copolymerization shown in Sch. 5 [94]. The polymer-supported chiral ligands were then reacted with borane to give the oxazaborolidines which were used as catalysts in Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein. 

A variety of solid Lewis and Br0nsted acids has been shown to catalyze Diels-Alder reactions. In several instances the results obtained with heterogeneous catalysts were better than those with homogeneous Lewis acid catalysts. Most of the reported reactions of interest in the synthesis of fine chemicals were catalyzed by (modified) zeolites, clays, alumina, or silica. Catalysts with interesting properties were obtained when support materials such as zeolites, alumina, or silica were treated with Lewis acids. These catalysts were moderately selective in diastereo-selective Diels-Alder reactions with chiral dienophiles and induced enantioselec-tivity (up to 31 % e. e.) in the reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein after treatment with chiral derivatives. Excellent enantioselectivity in this reaction (up to 95 % e. e.) was observed with a polymer-supported chiral oxazaborolidinone. Because of their facile recovery and recycling, we expect that solid-acid catalysts will find increasing use in Diels-Alder reactions in the future. 

Many supported or heterogeneous catalysts used for Diels-Alder reactions are known to give better results than their non-supported analogues. Nevertheless, chiral catalysts for asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions are scarce. Mayoral, Luis and coworkers studied the use of a variety of chiral polymer-bound amino alcohols as catalysts in cycloaddition reactions. Reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein in the presence of (S)-prolinol-derived resin 81 proceeded with excellent yield (98%) but poor enantioselectivity (14% e.e.) as shown in Scheme 3.6.8. Once again, extrapolation from solution phase chemistry to a solid-supported reaction proved difficult. 

Kaml995 Kamahori, K., Tada, S., Ito, K. and Itsuno, S., Synthesis of Polymer-Supported Chiral N-Sulfonylamino Acids and Their Use in Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction of Cyclopentadiene with Methacrolein, Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 6 (1995) 2547-2555. 

The synthesis of the stable a-ferrocenyl carbocations 40 led to further investigation ofcarbenium salts catalyzed reactions (Scheme 16.37). Kagan et al. [108-110] designed the o-substituted ferrocenyl scaffold that allowed them to avoid the placement of two aryl groups on the carbocation and provided the stabilization and asymmetry, preventing isomerizahon by facile rotation about the carbenium center. Catalyst 40 was applied in the Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein and resulted an excellent exo/endo diastereoselectivity of up to 99 1 in the presence of 4A MS in nearly quantitative yield (Scheme 16.37). 

Several cationic cyclopentadienylrhodium and iridium complexes 175 with attached chiral ligands behave like Lewis acids and have found their way as catalysts for Diels-Alder reaction. The complexes with chiral iminopyridine 175a,b [113], chiral oxazoline 175d,e [114], and chiral phosphine ligands 175c [115] were studied in the cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene with methacrolein into 176 (Scheme 78). Some typical examples are given in Table 34. 

Zeijden [112] used chiral M-functionalized cyclopentadiene ligands to prepare a series of transition metal complexes. The zirconium derivative (82 in Scheme 46), as a moderate Lewis acid, catalyzed the Diels-Alder reaction between methacroleine and cyclopentadiene, with 72% de but no measurable enantiomeric excess. Nakagawa [113] reported l,T-(2,2 -bis-acylamino)binaphthalene (83 in Scheme 46) to be effective in the ytterbium-catalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction between cyclopentadiene and crotonyl-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one. The adduct was obtained with high yield and enantioselectivity (97% yield, endo/exo = 91/9, > 98% ee for the endo adduct). The addition of diisopropylethylamine was necessary to afford high enantioselectivities, since without this additive, the product was essentially... 

In 1990, Choudary [139] reported that titanium-pillared montmorillonites modified with tartrates are very selective solid catalysts for the Sharpless epoxidation, as well as for the oxidation of aromatic sulfides [140], Unfortunately, this research has not been reproduced by other authors. Therefore, a more classical strategy to modify different metal oxides with histidine was used by Moriguchi et al. [141], The catalyst showed a modest e.s. for the solvolysis of activated amino acid esters. Starting from these discoveries, Morihara et al. [142] created in 1993 the so-called molecular footprints on the surface of an Al-doped silica gel using an amino acid derivative as chiral template molecule. After removal of the template, the catalyst showed low but significant e.s. for the hydrolysis of a structurally related anhydride. On the same fines, Cativiela and coworkers [143] treated silica or alumina with diethylaluminum chloride and menthol. The resulting modified material catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction between cyclopentadiene and methacrolein with modest e.s. (30% e.e.). As mentioned in the Introduction, all these catalysts are not yet practically important but rather they demonstrate that amorphous metal oxides can be modified successfully. 

A very high asymmetric induction was observed when the reaction between cyclopentadiene and methacrolein was performed using 0.5 mol% of binaphthol catalyst 326209. Diels-Alder adduct (2R)-322 was formed with up to 97.8% ee within 4 h at — 80 °C. 

Kobayashi and colleagues227 prepared chiral boron reagent 355 from BBr3 and chiral prolinol derivative 354 (equation 100). This catalyst afforded the exo Diels-Alder adduct of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein with 97% cc (equation 101). In the same way, norbomene (2/J)-357 was obtained from 356 and cyclopentadiene. 

Helmchen and colleagues used equimolar amounts of L-valine derived oxazaboroli-dine 361a to catalyze the reaction of methacrolein with cyclopentadiene (equation 103). Cycloadduct 322 was obtained with 64% ee229. The enantioselectivity was increased to 86% ee by using 60 mol% of 361a and donor solvents like THF. The same catalyst afforded the endo cycloadduct of crotonaldehyde and cyclopentadiene with 76% ee. 

The effect of changing the position of the electron-donating atom in the side chain R of oxazaborolidine catalysts 367 was studied systematically for the reaction between cyclopentadiene and methacrolein. The enantioselectivity proved to be controlled by the presence of electron-donor atoms at positions 2 and 4 of the side chain. The effect was especially apparent in the formation of 366 from cyclopentadiene with a-bromoacrolein (365) (equation 105, Table 20), which is more electron-poor than methacrolein232. 

Reilly and Oh explored the asymmetric induction of chiral catalysts derived from bis(dichloroborane) 397 in the cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene with a-bromoacrolein and methacrolein. /V-Tosyltryplophan (394) and chiral diols 395 and 396 were employed as chiral ligands246,247. The application of chiral iV-tosyltryptophan afforded the best results (equation 118, Table 22). 

The influence of Lewis acids on the 4 + 2-cycloaddition of (2ft,2/ft)-A,iV/-fumaro-ylbis[fenchane-8,2-sultam] with cyclopentadiene and cyclohexadiene was investigated by IR studies of the sultam compexes with various Lewis acids.101 The first enantios-elective silicon Lewis acid catalyst (91) catalysed the Diels-Alder cycloaddition of methacrolein and cyclopentadiene with 94% ee.102 [A1C13 + 2THF] is a new and efficient catalytic system for the Diels-Alder cycloaddition of a,/9-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with dienes under solvent-free conditions.103 Dendritic copper(II) triflate catalysts with a 2,2 -bipyridine core (92) increased the chemical yields of Diels-Alder adducts.104... 

The reaction of methacrolein with cyclopentadiene catalyzed by a chiral menthoxyaluminum complex gives adducts with ee s of up to 72%, but with other dienophiles little, if any, induction was noted.9495 A chiral cyclic amido aluminum complex 2 catalyzes the cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene with the fran.v-crotyl derivative 3 in good yield and enantioselectivity (Scheme 26.2).47 This chiral catalyst can also be easily recovered. 

These complexes are the first examples of multifunctional catalysts and demonstrate impressively the opportunities that can reside with the as yet hardly investigated bimetallic catalysis. The concept described here is not limited to lanthanides but has been further extended to main group metals such as gallium [31] or aluminum [32]. In addition, this work should be an incentive for the investigation of other metal-binaphthyl complexes to find out whether polynuclear species play a role in catalytic processes there as well. For example, the preparation of ti-tanium-BINOL complexes takes place in the presence of alkali metals [molecular sieve ( )]. A leading contribution in this direction has been made by Kaufmann et al, as early as 1990 [33], It was proven that the reaction of (5)-la with monobromoborane dimethyl sulfide leads exclusively to a binuclear, propeller-like borate compound. This compound was found to catalyze the Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein with excellent exo-stereoselectivity and enantioselectivity in accordance with the empirical rule for carbonyl compounds which has been presented earlier. 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reaction of Unsaturated Aldehydes . The boron atom of acyloxyborane is activated by the electron-withdrawing acyloxy groups, and consequently acyloxyborane derivatives are sufficiently Lewis acidic to catalyze certain reactions. Thus, asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of a,p-enals with dienes using (1) as a Lewis acid catalyst have been developed. For example, the reaction of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein gives the adduct in 85% yield (endo exo= 11 89) and 96% ee (major exo isomer) (eq 3). Some additional examples are listed in Figure 1. The a-substituent on the dienophile increases the enantioselectivity, while p-substitution dramatically decreases the selectivity. In the case of a substrate having substituents in both a- and p-positions, high enantioselectivity is observed thus the a-substituent effect overcomes that of the p-substituent. 

The observations made for the VAPOL-aluminum catalyst in Table 15 are suggestive of asymmetric auto-induction similar to that for catalysis of the same reaction by a chiral aluminum catalyst prepared from the diol 225 (Sch. 24 Fig. 1) [48]. Because the Diels-Alder reaction between methacrolein and cyclopentadiene was too fast, monitoring of the time course of asymmetric induction, thus this was done for the reaction between methyl acrylate and cyclopentadiene [53]. The VAPOL-aluminum catalyst catalyzes the reaction of methyl acrylate and cyclopentadiene with asymmetric auto-induction as indicated in Fig. 2. The first data point that was collected was after 20 % conversion, at which point the cycloadduct 141 was 47 % ee when the last data point was collected at the end of the reaction it was found that 141 was 82 % ee. 

The possibility that metallocenes might function as Lewis acids in Diels-Alder reactions was probed with ferrocenium hexafluorophosphate [184]. The answer is affirmative the cycloadditions studied include methacrolein, crotonaldehyde, and methyl vinyl ketone as dienophiles and butadienes and cyclopentadienes as diene components. Yields are in the range 60-80 % with reaction times of 3-36 h at 0 to 20 °C. Fair to good yields were also obtained in reactions of isoprene and cyclopentadiene with acrolein and methyl vinyl ketone in the presence of 1 % [Pd(PPh3)2(MeCN)2](BF4)2 (in CH2CI2, room temperature). Methyl acrylate resulted in low yields, and chiral modification with (5)-BINAP is reported to give the cycloadducts with modest enantioselectivity [164]. 

Diels-Alder reactions of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein with crotonaldehyde are also catalyzed by complexes formed in situ between NbCls or TaCls and bidentate ligands (2 equiv.) such as L-tartrate esters, or a-amino acids (e.g. tryptophan, alanine). Yields with the Ta catalysts are often somewhat better (14-78 %) than with the Nb catalysts. Good exo. endo ratios are obtained but enantioselectivities are still low (7-40 % ee) [185]. Methylrhenium trioxide is an efficient catalyst in these reactions and its best performance is in aqueous solution. Acrolein derivatives and methyl vinyl ketones react with a variety of dienes to give single diastereoisomers in very high yield with as little as 1 % catalyst loading [186]. Examples are shown in Sch. 49. The reaction is sluggish with disubstituted dienophiles and dienes. 

The Diels-Alder reaction of a diene and a dienophile has become one of the most powerful carbon-carbon bond-forming processes [81]. In normal Diels-Alder reactions of an electron-poor dienophile with an electron-rich diene, the main interaction is between the HOMO of the diene and the LUMO of the dienophile. Coordination of a Lewis acid to the dienophile reduces its frontier orbital energies, and this increases the rate of the reaction. Regio- and stereoselectivity are also markedly affected by the Lewis acid. Recent extensive studies on the design of chiral Lewis acids have led to fruitful results in the control of the stereochemistry of a variety of pericyclic reactions. Several chirally modified Lewis acids have been developed for the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction [82,83] and spectacular advances have recently been achieved in this area. Various kinds of polymer-supported chiral Lewis acid have also been developed. Polymer-supported A1 Lewis acids such as 62 have been used in the Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and methacrolein (Eq. 20) [84] as has polymer-supported Ti alkoxide 63 [84]. These Ti catalysts are readily prepared and have high activity in the Diels-Alder reaction. 

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