Diphosphine ligand

Cyanide, in vivo, should react vfith auranofin. When the stoichiometry of cyanide is less than 1 1, the thiolate ion is displaced  

When there is an excess of cyanide, both the thiol and the phosphine will be displaced in the next step  

The equilibrium constant at pH 7.4 for the cyanolysis of AuSTm to yield [Au(CN)2] is 6.0 X 10 The equilibrium constant for the competition of cyanide 

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Monsanto s commercial route to the Parkinson s drug, L-DOPA (3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine), utilizes an Erlenmeyer azlactone prepared from vanillin. The pioneering research in catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation by William Knowles as exemplified by his reduction of 24 to 25 in 95% ee with the DiPAMP diphosphine ligand was recognized with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. ... 

Reaction of the diphosphine ligand R2P(CH2)2PR2 (R = benzothiazolyl) (L) with [RhCl(PPh3)3] gives the exclusively P-coordinated product [RhCl(PPh3)(L)] (88JOM(338)C31, 92JCS(D)241), which is perhaps a common feature of the P-substituted derivatives of oxazole and thiazole. 

The results obtained in the biphasic hydroformylation of 1-octene are presented in Table 5.2-1. In order to evaluate the properties of the ionic diphosphine ligand... 

BMIM][PFg] with a guanidinium-modified diphosphine ligand with xanthene backbone. 

Figure 3.49 The rranj-cotriplexes of a phenanthrene-derived diphosphine ligand (M = Pd, Pi).

Elimination reactions have been particularly studied in the case of dialkyls. They depend on the alkyl groups being cis trans-complexes have to isomerize before they can eliminate, and a complex with a trans-spanning diphosphine ligand is stable to 100°C (Figure 3.56). 

Significant advance in the field of asymmetric catalysis was also achieved with the preparation of l,2-bis(phospholano)benzene (DuPHOS 4) and its confor-mationally flexible derivative (l,2-bis(phospholano)ethane, known as BPE) by Burk et al. [59]. Two main distinctive features embodied by these Hgands, as compared to other known chiral diphosphine ligands, are the electron-rich character of the phosphorus atoms on the one hand and the pseudo-chirality at phosphorus atoms, on the other. These properties are responsible for both the high activity of the corresponding metal complex and an enantioselection indepen-... 

Similar catalytic reactions allowed stereocontrol at either of the olefin carbons (Scheme 5-13, Eqs. 2 and 3). As in related catalysis with achiral diphosphine ligands (Scheme 5-7), these reactions proceeded more quickly for smaller phosphine substrates. These processes are not yet synthetically useful, since the enantiomeric excesses (ee s) were low (0-27%) and selectivity for the illustrated phosphine products ranged from 60 to 100%. However, this work demonstrated that asymmetric hydrophosphination can produce non-racemic chiral phosphines [13]. 

On the other hand, the enantioselective 1,4-addition of carbanions such as enolates to linear enones is an interesting challenge, since relatively few efficient methods exist for these transformations. The Michael reaction of p-dicarbonyl compounds with a,p-unsaturated ketones can be catalysed by a number of transition-metal compounds. The asymmetric version of this reaction has been performed using chiral diol, diamine, and diphosphine ligands. In the past few years, bidentate and polydentate thioethers have begun to be considered as chiral ligands for this reaction. As an example, Christoffers et al. have developed the synthesis of several S/O-bidentate and S/O/S-tridentate thioether... 

Another class of chiral diphosphine ligands bearing two interconnected thiophene rings, has been successfully developed by Sannicolo et al. These bis(diphenylphosphino)[Z)]thiophene ligands, called tetraMe-BITIANP and... 

Another class of chiral sulfur-containing ligands, diphosphine ligands based on a thiophene backbone, has been successfully developed by Sannicolo et For the first time, bis(diphenylphosphines) bidentate ligands incor-... 

Scheme 8.34 Hydrogenation of a Schiff base with tetrasulfonated diphosphine ligand.

Manufacture of rhodium precatalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation. Established literature methods used to make the Rh-DuPhos complexes consisted of converting (1,5-cyclooctadiene) acetylacetonato Rh(l) into the sparingly soluble bis(l,5-cyclooctadiene) Rh(l) tetrafluoroborate complex which then reacts with the diphosphine ligand to provide the precatalyst complex in solution. Addition of an anti-solvent results in precipitation of the desired product. Although this method worked well with a variety of diphosphines, yields were modest and more importantly the product form was variable. The different physical forms performed equally as well in hydrogenation reactions but had different shelf-life and air stability. 

An especially important case is the enantioselective hydrogenation of a-amidoacrylic acids, which leads to a-aminoacids.29 A particularly detailed study has been carried out on the mechanism of reduction of methyl Z-a-acetamidocinnamate by a rhodium catalyst with a chiral diphosphine ligand DIPAMP.30 It has been concluded that the reactant can bind reversibly to the catalyst to give either of two complexes. Addition of hydrogen at rhodium then leads to a reactive rhodium hydride and eventually to product. Interestingly, the addition of hydrogen occurs most rapidly in the minor isomeric complex, and the enantioselectivity is due to this kinetic preference. 

Phenylation has also been achieved with the diphosphine ligands BINAP and tol-BINAP. 

Palladium acetate in conjunction with a diphosphine ligand, xantphos, is active for arylation of amides, ureas, oxazolidinones and sulfonamides.174... 

A similar approach to the one described above was utilized for the formation of quinone methide derivatives of osmium.14 Reaction of OsCl2(PPh3)3 with a phenolic diphosphine ligand in the presence of Et3N resulted in phosphine exchange followed by C—H activation and deprotonation by the base to form the two isomeric QM... 

Oxidative addition of a silyl-protected 4-(bromomethyl)phenol precursor to (tme-da)Pd(II)Me2 (tmeda = tetramethylethylenediamine), followed by ethane reductive elimination, resulted in formation of the benzylic complex 16 (Scheme 3.10). Exchange of tmeda for a diphosphine ligand (which is better suited for stabilizing the ultimate Pd(0) QM complex), followed by removal of the protecting silyl group with fluoride anion, resulted in the expected p-QM Pd(0) complex, 17, via intermediacy of the zwitterionic Pd(II) benzyl complex. In this way a stable complex of p-BHT-QM, 17b, the very important metabolite of the widely used food antioxidant BHT20 (BHT = butylated hydroxytoluene) was prepared. Similarly, a Pd(0) complex of the elusive, simplest /)-QM, 17a, was obtained (Scheme 3.10). 

Many chiral diphosphine ligands have been evaluated with regard to inducing enantioselectivity in the course of the hydroformylation reaction [25,26]. However, a real breakthrough occurred in 1993 with the discovery of the BI-NAPHOS ligand by Takaya and Nozaki [65]. This was the first efficient and rather general catalyst for the enantioselective hydroformylation of several classes of alkenes, such as aryl alkenes, 1-heteroatom-functionalized alkenes, and substituted 1,3-dienes, and is still a benchmark in this area [66,67]. But still a major problem in this field is the simultaneous control of enantio-... 

Other chiral diphosphine ligands (374), (375), (376), and (377) bind to iridium with little diastereoselectivity.603 The complexes are characterized by 1H and 31P H NMR spectroscopy. 

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