Diamination, alkenes asymmetric

Since Sharpless discovery of asymmetric dihydroxylation reactions of al-kenes mediated by osmium tetroxide-cinchona alkaloid complexes, continuous efforts have been made to improve the reaction. It has been accepted that the tighter binding of the ligand with osmium tetroxide will result in better stability for the complex and improved ee in the products, and a number of chiral auxiliaries have been examined in this effort. Table 4 11 (below) lists the chiral auxiliaries thus far used in asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes. In most cases, diamine auxiliaries provide moderate to good results (up to 90% ee). 

Enantioselective osmylotion of alkenes. Osmium tetroxide forms a 1 1 wine-red complex with the chiral diamine l2 that effects efficient enantioselective dihy-droxylation of monosubstituted, oww-disubstituted, and trisubstituted alkenes (83-99% ee) at -110° in THF. The enantioface differentiation in all cases corresponds to that observed with t/mr-3-hexene and the complex with (-)-l. Essentially complete asymmetric induction is observed with frans-l-phenylpropene (99% ee). 

The work by E.J. Corey [37], M. Hirama [38] and K. Tomioka [39], and their associates, on asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes with chiral diamine-osmium tetroxide complexes also deserves to be mentioned. 

L = (S,S)-JV V -bis(2,4,6-trimethylbenzylidene)-l,2-diphenyl-l,2-diamine 393 catalytic asymmetric cis dihydoxylation of alkenes L = dihydroquinidine or dihydroquinine 4-nitrobenzoate catalytic 394... 

A very simple yet elegant method for efficient epoxidation of aromatic and aliphatic alkenes was presented by Beller and coworkers [63, 64], FeCl3 hexahydrate in combination with 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic add and various organic amines gave a highly reactive and selective catalyst system. An asymmetric variant (for epoxidations of trans-stilbene and related aromatic alkenes) was published recently [65] using N-monosulfonylated diamines as chiral ligands (Scheme 3.7). 

Chiral amino alcohols and diamines. The chiral vtc-diols available by catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes (14, 237-239) can be converted via a derived cyclic sulfite into chiral 1,2-amino alcohols and diamines as shown in equation I. The same transformations are useful in conversion of 1-alkyl- or arylethane-1,2-diols into the corresponding amino alcohols and diamines. 

Jacobsen epoxidation turned out to be the best large-scale method for preparing the cis-amino-indanol for the synthesis of Crixivan, This process is very much the cornerstone of the whole synthesis. During the development of the first laboratory route into a route usable on a very large scale, many methods were tried and the final choice fell on this relatively new type of asymmetric epoxidation. The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation works only for allylic alcohols (Chapter 45) and so is no good here. The Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation works less well on ris-alkenes than on trans-alkenes, The Jacobsen epoxidation works best on cis-alkenes. The catalyst is the Mn(III) complex easily made from a chiral diamine and an aromatic salicylaldehyde (a 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde). 

Chiral diamines capable of chelating to a metal center, such as (-)-(/ ,f >-A(,, A( // -tetramethyl(rra j-1,2-cyclohexanediamine (25), the tartaric acid derived (-)-diamine (26), and the (-)-l,2-dipyrrolid-inylethane (27), ° also lead to a high degree of asymmetric induction when alkene hy oxylation with osmium tetroxide is conducted in their presence. 

When asymmetric reduction of the ketone of an enone such as 39 is wanted, the catalyst must be further modified14 by using the very crowded BINAP derivative XYLBINAP 41 and the diamine additive DAIPEN 42. The results are then excellent but this example makes the point that it is essential to follow closely related examples when attempting the asymmetric reduction of any but the simplest alkene. 

Chiral Mn salen complexes have been prepared by replacing ethylenediatnine with a chiral diamine such as 1,2-cyclohexanediamine, and these complexes show very high enantioselectivity in the epoxidation of alkenes, especially cyclic ones. The Mn-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes is known as the Jacobsen or Jacobsen-Katsuki epoxidation. 

Two new optically active diamines have been used in the asymmetric osmium tetroxide oxidation of alkenes to vicinal diols (Scheme 7). 17 18... 

Treatment with excess trifluoroacetic acid furnished the (dihydroiminoethano) carbazole 107 in 71% overall yield. Epoxidation of the alkene followed by a two-step protecting group modification gave epoxide 108, which underwent an oxidative epoxide opening followed by silyl protection to give silyl ether 109. Alloc deprotection, alkylation with (Z)-2-iodo-2-butenyl tosylate, followed by an intramolecular Heck reaction delivered pentacyclic diamine 110. A three-step formation of the p-ketoester 111 followed by a three-step reduction process afforded ester 112, which underwent a reduction and deprotection sequence to provide minfien-sine (99). A sequential catalytic asymmetric Heck-(V-acyliminium ion cyclization for the delivery of the enantiopure 3,4-dihydro-9a,4a-(iminoethano)-9//-carbazole is the highlight of the synthesis. 

Metal complexes of enantiomericaUy pure N,N -ethylenebis(salicylideneaminato) (salen) complexes in combination with stoichiometric oxidants currently provide the most selective method for the catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalised alkenes. The use of C2-symmetric salen complexes of manganese(lll) were reported independently in 1990 by Jacobsen and coworkers and Katsuki and coworkers. The first generation catalysts are represented by the general structure (4.33). The complex with R = Bu is known as Jacobsen s catalyst. All of the first generation catalysts are composed of a enantiopure diamine core and possess large substituents at the 3/3 and 5/5 positions. Subsequently Katsuki and coworkers developed second generation catalysts such as (4.34) with axially chiral groups at the 3/3 positions. 

The Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation is reliable, but it works only for allylic alcohols. There is an alternative, however, which works with simple alkenes. The method was developed by Eric Jacobsen and employs a manganese catalyst with a chiral ligand built from a simple diamine. The diamine is not a natural compound and has to be made in enantiomeric form by resolution, but at least that means that both enantiomers are readily available. The diamine is condensed with a derivative of salicylaldehyde to make a bis-imine known as a salen. ... 

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