Desymmetrization oxidative

NOL-based systems for addition of (substituted) anilines to meso epoxides. Hou found that a ytterbium-BI NO L complex catalyzed desymmetrization of cyclohexene oxide in up to 80% ee [15], Shibasaki demonstrated that a praseodymium-BINOL complex could promote addition of p-anisidine to several epoxides in moderate yields with modest enantioselectivities (Scheme 7.7) [16]. 

Subsequent to the development of the (salen)Cr-catalyzed desymmetrization of meso-epoxides with azide (Scheme 7.3), Jacobsen discovered that the analogous (salen)Co(n) complex 6 promoted the enantioselective addition of benzoic acids to meso-epoxides to afford valuable monoprotected C2-symmetric diols (Scheme 7.15) [26], Under the reaction conditions, complex 6 served as a precatalyst for the (salen) Co(iii)-OBz complex, which was fonned in situ by aerobic oxidation. While the enantioselectivity was moderate for certain substrates, the high crystallinity of the products allowed access to enantiopure materials by simple recrystallization. 

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. 

Andersson also showed that, in addition to meso-desymmetrization, kinetic resolution of some cyclic epoxides by use of the first-generation catalyst was also possible, giving both epoxides and allylic alcohols in good yields (Scheme 7.51) [108], Kozmin reported the effective use of the same catalyst in the desymmetrization of diphenylsilacyclopentene oxide. The resulting products could be used in the ster-eocontrolled syntheses of various acyclic polyols (Scheme 7.52) [109]. 

Table 2.1 Desymmetrization of prochiral ketones by the BV reaction using O2 as the oxidant and the CHMO mutant 1-K2-F5 as the catalyst [90].

The synthesis in Scheme 13.41 is also built on the desymmetrization concept but uses a very different intermediate. cA-5,7-Dimethylcycloheptadiene was acetoxylated with Pd(OAc)2 and the resulting all-cA-diacetate intermediate was enantioselectively hydrolyzed with a lipase to give a monoacetate that was protected as the TBDMS ether. An anti Sw2 displacement by dimethyl cuprate established the correct configuration of the C(2) methyl substituent. Oxidative ring cleavage and lactonization gave the final product. 

Formal hydration of the double bond appeared by the hydroboration-oxidation sequence. Desymmetrization reactions with catalytic asymmetric hydroboration are not restricted to norbornene or nonfunctionalized substrates and can be successfully applied to meso bicyclic hydrazines. In the case of 157, hydroxy derivative 158 is formed with only moderate enantioselectivity both using Rh or Ir precatalysts. Interestingly, a reversal of enantioselectivity is observed for the catalytic desymmetrization reaction by exchanging these two transition metals. Rh-catalyzed hydroboration involves a metal-H insertion, and a boryl migration is involved when using an Ir precatalyst (Equation 17) <2002JA12098, 2002JOC3522>. 

Miyafuji and Katsuki95 reported the desymmetrization of meso-tetrahydrofuran derivatives via highly enantioselective C-H oxidation using Mn-salen catalysts. The optically active product lactols (up to 90% ee) are useful chiral building blocks for organic synthesis (Scheme 8-48). 

During the synthesis of H2[pz((V-Me2)8], (101) the seco-pz (158), a purple pigment, was isolated as a minor side product (40). The seco-pz was formed as a result of the desymmetrization of macrocycle 101 generated by the oxidation of one of the pyrrole rings during the work up, accompanied by the loss of the Mg(II) cation (Scheme 28). 

With a good route to the key meso diol 128 in hand, the authors turned their attention to desymmetrization, using the known asymmetric hydrolysis of meso diacetates by Lipase AK (Scheme 23). The meso diol 128 was first converted to diacetate 140, and then hydrolyzed with Lipase AK to cleave selectively one of the two acetates, producing chiral hydroxyester 141. Oxidation, cleavage of the acetate, and lactonization yielded the (3S,4.R) lactone 129. The corresponding lactol (3S,4 )-130 was found to be the enantiomer of the compound produced in the HLADH synthesis. 

Camell and co-workers have recently applied lipase-catalysed resolution to formally desymmetrize prochiral ketones that would not normally be considered as candidates for enzyme resolution, through enantioselective hydrolysis of the chemically prepared racemic enol acetate. " For example, an NK-2 antagonist was formally desymmetrized by this approach using Pseudomonas fluorescens hpase (PFL) (Scheme 1.40). By recychng the prochiral ketone product, up to 82 % yields of the desired (5)-enol acetate (99 % ee) could be realized. This method offers a mild alternative to methodologies such as base-catalysed asymmetric deprotonation, which requires low temperature, and biocatalytic Baeyer-Villiger oxidation, which is difficult to scale up. 

Inaba and coworkers reported that a Ti-BINOL complex is an effective catalyst for the desymmetrization of epoxide 44 using primary amines as nucleophiles. Of significant note is the efficiency of this reaction, with only 1 mol% catalyst necessary to attain high yields and selectivities [Eq. (10.11)]. Unfortunately, this epoxide is uniquely effective in this reaction. Cycloheptene oxide, dihydrofuran oxide, and an acyclic version of 44 each provided negligible yields under these reaction conditions ... 

A number of workers have made progress on this front. Asami and coworkers have anchored the stoichiometric base on the solid phase to realize a catalytic desymmetrization using lithiated diamine 135. Andersson has shown that slow addition of LDA results in an improvement in enantioselectivity when using his bicyclic base 136, while Ahlberg has illustrated that a stoichiometric base such as lithiated 1,2-dimethylimidazole results in an efficient catalytic system using diamine 137. Alexakis has published a smdy involving a number of chiral ethane-and propane-diamines in the catalytic deprotonation of cyclohexene oxide. Enan-tioselectivities observed are moderate, with diamine 138 providing the desired product in 59% ee and 80% yield. ... 

The groups of Sigman and Stoltz have concurrently published the palladium-catalyzed oxidative kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols using molecular oxygen as the stoichiometric oxidant. Both communications also described a single example of a diol desymmetrization using a palladium catalyst in the presence of (—(-sparteine [Eqs. (10.42) ° and (10.43) ] ... 

A hydroboration-oxidation sequence has been described for the desymmetrization of bicyclic hydrazino-alkenes. The use of BDPP as a chiral ligand on Rh provides the desired alcohol in 84% ee, following oxidation of the hydroborated... 

Desymmetxization by oxidative addition has been examined in a number of contexts. Erase reported that bisenolnonaflates undergo a desymmetrization/Heck reaction cascade with modest efficiency. " The use of BINAP as a ligand for Pd affords low ee s and poor yields ... 

The desymmetrization works also well with higher substituted meio-epoxides such as ewdo-norbornene oxide (130) , cis-5,6- and 4,7-difunctionalized cyclooctene oxides 132 and 134, giving the alcohols 131, 133 and 135, respectively but for the diastereomer 136, the rearrangement to form the allylic alcohol 138 beside 137 cannot be completely suppressed (equation 29 best results are given). ... 

Oxidative kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols mediated with a catalytic amount of optically active binaphthyl-type iV-oxyl has been performed with high selectivity". Also, it has mediated oxidative asymmetric desymmetrization of primary alcohols with good selectivity (equation 25)". ... 

It has been demonstrated recently that directed evolution is ideally suited to control the enantioselectivity of partial oxidations of this kind. The results are all the more significant because no X-ray data or homology models were available at the time to serve as a possible guide (103). In a model study using whole E. coli cells containing the CHMO from Acinobacter sp. NCIMB 9871, 4-hydroxy-cyclohexanone (51) was used as the substrate. The WT leads to the preferential formation of the primary product (7 )-52 which spontaneously rearranges to the thermodynamically more stable lactone (R)-53. The ee of this desymmetrization is... 

From the NMR spectrum of copolymers produced from cyclohexene oxide and carbon dioxide it is difficult to assess low levels of asymmetric induction, i.e., low degrees of desymmetrization in the epoxide ring-opening step. In order to determine the extent of asymmetric induction it is necessary to hydrolyze the copolymer leading to the tra s-cyclohexane-l,2,-diol and examine the enantiomeric excess (4) [22]. Figure 4 shows the NMR spectrum in the carbonate region of atactic copolymer produced from cyclohexene oxide and CO2 using an achiral (salen)CrX catalyst. 

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