6.6- Disubstituted BINOLs

H. Sasai, T. Tokunaga, S. Watanabe, T. Suzuki, N. Itoh, M. Shibasaki, Efficient Diastereoselective and Enantiose-lective Nitroaldol Reactions from Prochiral Starting MaterialsStUtilization of La-Li-6,6 -Disubstituted BINOL Complexes as Asymmetric CatalystsUtJ. Org Chem 1995, 60, 7388-7389. 

Diols such as the optically active 1,1 -binaphthyl-2-2 -diol (BINOL) have been used as versatile templates and chiral auxiliaries in catalysts employed successfully in asymmetric synthesis. The application of enzymes in the enantioselective access to axially dissymmetric compounds was first reported by Fujimoto and coworkers.83 In aqueous media, the asymmetric hydrolysis of the racemic binaphthyl dibutyrate (the ester) using whole cells from bacteria species afforded the (A)-diol with 96%ee and the unreacted substrate (A)-ester with 94% ee at 50 % conversion. Recently, in non-aqueous media, lipases from Pseudomonas cepacia and Ps. fluorescens have been employed in the enantioselective resolution and desymmetrization of racemic 6,6 -disubstituted BINOL derivatives using vinyl acetate.84 The monoacetate (K)-73 (product) was obtained in 32-44 % chemical yields and 78-96% ee depending on the derivatives used. The unreacted BINOL (S)-72 was obtained in 30-52 % chemical yield and 55-80% ee. 

A 6,6 -disubstituted BINOL derivative was also used in the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction by Terada M, Motoyama Y, Mikami K (1994) Tetrahedron Lett 35 6693 Lingfelter DS, Hegelson RC, Cram DJ (1981) J Org Chem 46 393... 

The LLB type catalysts were also successfully applied in the asymmetric ni-troaldol reaction of quite unreactive a,a-difluoro aldehydes. However, catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reaction of a broad variety of a,a-difluoro aldehydes proceeded satisfactorily when using the heterobimetallic asymmetric catalysts with modified, 6,6 -disubstituted BINOL ligands [22]. The best results were obtained with the samarium (III) complex (5 mol%) generated from 6,6 -bis[(tri-ethylsilyl)ethynyl BINOL with enantioselectivities up to 95% ee. The ( -configuration of one representative nitroaldol adduct showed that the nitronate reacted preferentially on the Si face of aldehyde in the presence of (P)-LLB (20 mol% 74% yield 55% ee). It is noteworthy that the enantiotopic face selection for a,a-difluoro aldehydes is reverse to that for nonfluorinated aldehydes. The stereoselectivity for a,a -difluoro aldehydes is identical with that of P-oxa-aldehydes, suggesting that the fluorine atoms at the a-position have a great influence on enantioface selection. 

K > m prochiral reagents show very high k. > derived from 6,6-disubstituted BINOLs D. ze. >des also undergo this condensation. ... 

An alternate approach has been developed by Charette and coworkers in which chiral iodomethylzinc phosphates were prepared and tested in the cyclopropanation of unfunctionalized alkenes. Although these reagents were not sufficiently reactive to convert aryl-substituted alkenes (such as indene) to the corresponding cyclopropane, they reacted nicely with protected aryl-substituted allylic and homoallylic alcohols (equation 92) °. Several 3,3 -disubstituted binols were tested and ligand 23 stood out as being the most effective with this class of compounds. The active reagent in this case is a chiral iodomethylzinc phosphate. 

Crown Ethers. BINOL-derived crown ethers have been reported. Crown ethers containing 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL derivatives are particularly effective for asymmetric synthesis. Thus complexes of these crown ethers (e.g. 18-Crown-6) with Potassium Amide or Potassium t-Butoxide catalyze asym-... 

The first example of an asymmetric [2 + 2] cycloaddition of a ketene to an aldehyde was reported in 1994 by Miyano and coworkers [28]. They found that chiral aluminum catalysts prepared from different 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL derivatives resulted in low to modest asymmetric induction for a range of aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. There does not seen to be a correlation between asymmetric induction and the size of the aldehyde. The data in Table 5 show that the optimum ligand for this reaction is triphenylsilyl substituted BINOL. It is curious that the catalyst prepared from this ligand and the catalyst prepared from BINOL result in opposite facial selectivity with... 

In conclusion, surprisingly the substitution at the 6,6 -positions of BINOL proved to be effective in obtaining superior asymmetric catalysts, whereas the use of complexes derived from 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL derivatives [22,23] gave racemic 4 while the BIPOL derived catalyst [24] gave 4 in only 39% ee. The reason for the positive effect of 6,6 -substituents on BINOL might be that the introduction of 6,6 -bis(trialkylsilyl)ethynyl substituents completely suppresses undesired ligand exchange between nitroalkane and BINOL, whereas this appears to occur in the case of LLB (albeit in only small amounts) [9,25]. 

Strecker synthesis. The 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL 1 is used in promoting addition of Me3SiCN to A -tosylketimines. Adding one equivalent of 1-adamantanol enhances reaction rates and enantioselectivity. ... 

Aminolysis. The 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL 1 forms a complex with Nb(OMe)5 that has found use in catalyzing the opening of epoxides and aziridines with ArNH2. 

Addition to aldehydes. Qrganozinc addition to aldehydes with BINOLs as catalysts likely involves precoordination. 3,3 -Disubstituted BINOLs, especially with substituents providing additional ligating groups, are found to be highly effective, as exemplified by the use of 1 and 2 in reaction of Et2Zn and alkynylzincs (in situ), respectively. 

Phosphorodithioic adds have been prepared according to an improved synthesis of 3,3 -disubstituted BINOL derivatives (226-231). In preliminary experiments, these new Bronsted adds were tested as organocatalysts in three reactions. They promoted the Nazarov cyclisation with mixed selec-tivities, the Mannich reaction with good enantioselectivity and they catalyzed efficiently the alkylation of iV-acyliminium with enol silyl ether. ... 

Table 14.18 DoM-transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling sequences for the construction of 3,3 -disubstituted BINOLs and BIPOLs.

Yamamoto et al. were probably the first to report that chiral aluminum(III) catalysts are effective in the cycloaddition reactions of aldehydes [11]. The use of chiral BINOL-AlMe complexes (R)-S was found to be highly effective in the cycloaddition reaction of a variety of aldehydes with activated Danishefsky-type dienes. The reaction of benzaldehyde la with Danishefsky s diene 2a and traws-l-methoxy-2-methyl-3-(trimethylsilyloxy)-l,3-pentadiene 2b affords cis dihydropyrones, cis-3, as the major product in high yield with up to 97% ee (Scheme 4.6). The choice of the bulky triarylsilyl moiety in catalyst (J )-8b is crucial for high yield and the en-antioselectivity of the reaction in contrast with this the catalysts derived from AlMe3 and (J )-3,3 -disubstituted binaphthol (substituent = H, Me, Ph) were effective in stoichiometric amounts only and were less satisfactory with regard to reactivity and enantioselectivity. 

Although disubstituted alkynes are used successfully as two-carbon components in chromium-mediated and -catalyzed [6 + 2]-reactions, the use of terminal alkynes produces a [6 + 2 + 2]-reaction (Section 10.13.3.7). Buono and co-workers have discovered that when a cobalt catalyst is employed, several monosubstituted alkynes can be used in [6 + 2]-cycloadditions with cycloheptatriene (Scheme 35). The use of a chiral BINOL-phosphoramidite cobalt complex affords an enantioselective [6 + 2]-cycloaddition reaction (Equation (18)).121... 

As mentioned above, we planned to obtain optically pure styrenyl ethers through Zr-catalyzed kinetic resolution [5] subsequent metal-catalyzed rearrangement would afford optically pure chromenes. However, as shown in Scheme 11, the recovered starting material (40) was obtained with <10% ee (at 60% conversion) upon treatment with 10 mol% (,R)-(EBTHI)Zr-binol (3b) and five equivalents of EtMgCl (70°C, THF). We conjectured that, since the (EBT-HI)Zr-catalyzed reaction provides efficient resolution only when asymmetric alkylation occurs at the cyclic alkene site, competitive reaction at the styrenyl terminal olefin renders the resolution process ineffective. Analysis of the H NMR spectrum of the unpurified reaction mixture supported this contention. Indeed, as shown in Scheme 11, catalytic resolution of disubstituted styrene 49... 

In 2007, Terada et al. extended their previously described chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed aza-ene-type reaction of M-acyl aldimines with disubstituted enecarbamates (Scheme 28) to a tandem aza-ene-type reaction/cyclization cascade as a one-pot entry to enantioenriched piperidines 121 (Scheme 48). The sequential process was rendered possible by using monosubstituted 122 instead of a disubstituted enecarbamate 76 to produce a reactive aldimine intermediate 123, which is prone to undergo a further aza-ene-type reaction with a second enecarbamate equivalent. Subsequent intramolecular cychzation of intermediate 124 terminates the sequence. The optimal chiral BINOL phosphate (R)-3h (2-5 mol%, R = 4-Ph-C H ) provided the 2,4,6-sub-stituted M-Boc-protected piperidines 121 in good to exceUent yields (68 to > 99%) and accomplished the formation of three stereogenic centers with high diastereo- and exceUent enantiocontrol (7.3 1 to 19 1 transicis, 97 to > 99% ee(trans)) [72]. 

In 2008, the Ackennann group reported on the use of phosphoric acid 3r (10 mol%, R = SiPhj) as a Brpnsted acid catalyst in the unprecedented intramolecular hydroaminations of unfunctionaUzed alkenes alike 144 (Scheme 58) [82], BINOL-derived phosphoric acids with bulky substituents at the 3,3 -positions showed improved catalytic activity compared to less sterically hindered representatives. Remarkably, this is the first example of the activation of simple alkenes by a Brpnsted acid. However, the reaction is limited to geminally disubstituted precursors 144. Their cyclization might be favored due to a Thorpe-Ingold effect. An asymmetric version was attempted by means of chiral BINOL phosphate (R)-3( (20 mol%, R = 3,5-(CF3)2-CgH3), albeit with low enantioselectivity (17% ee). 

Asymmetric catalysis of ene reactions was initially investigated for the intramolecular examples, because intramolecular versions are much more facile than their inter-molecular counterparts. The first reported example of an enantioselective 6-(3,4) car-bonyl-ene cyclization employed a BINOL-derived zinc reagent [81]. This, however, was successful only when excess zinc reagent (at least 3 equiv.) was used. An enantioselective 6-(3,4) olefin-ene cyclization has also been developed which uses a stoichiometric amount of a TADDOL-derived chiral titanimn complex (Sch. 26) [82]. In this ene reaction, a hetero Diels-Alder product was also obtained, the periselectivity depending critically on the solvent system employed. In both cases, geminal disubstitution is required of high ee are to be obtained. Neither reaction, however, constitutes an example of a truly catalytic asymmetric ene cyclization. 

Basic research on the synthesis of analogs of the biologically active form of vitamin D3, la,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 (la,25(OH)2D3) has led to the development of an important new field in medicinal chemistry [84]. We have also reported symmetry assisted enantiospecific synthesis of the A-ring of the vitamin D hybrid analogs, 19-nor-22-oxa-la,25(OH)2D3 (Sch. 29) [85], It should be noted here that extremely high 1,3-frans selectivity was achieved by combining the (f )-BINOL-Ti catalyst and the (i )-ene substrate without geminal disubstitution. 

Other use of the functionalized chiral BINOL includes the 5,5, 6,6, 7, 7, 8,8 -octahydro derivative developed by Chan and coworkers, the titanium complex of which is more effective than BINOL in the enantioselective addition of triethylaluminum and diethylzinc a 4,4, 6,6 -tetrakis(perfluorooctyl) BINOL ligand developed for easy separation of the product and catalyst using fluorous solvents for the same zinc reaction an aluminum complex of 6,6 -disubstituted-2,2 -biphenyldiols used by Harada and coworkers in the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction a titanium complex of (5 )-5,5, 6,6, 7,7, 8,8 -octafluoro BINOL employed by Yudin and coworkers in the diethylzinc addition, in the presence of which the reaction of the enantiomeric (/f)-BINOL is promoted . 

In 2008, Vries group reported asymmetric hydrogenation of quinolines catalyzed by iridium complexes based on monodentate BINOL derived phos phoramidites PipPhos. They used tri ortho tolylphosphine and/or chloride salts as additives, and enantioselectivities were strongly enhanced to 89% ee (Scheme 10.13) [17]. Toluene and DCM were the best solvents, and the reaction was carried out at 60°C for 24h in the pressure of 50 bar H2, and a series of 2 substituted and 2,6 disubstituted quinolines were examined with excellent... 

Aldehydes can also be converted to enantioenriched chiral epoxides through the Darzens reaction. Thus, haloimides (e.g., 47) react with benzaldehyde in the presence of a novel phase transfer catalyst 45 derived from BINOL to give 1,2-disubstituted epoxides in good yields with... 

Narasaka reported that the titanium compound generated from TiCl2(OiPr)2 and an optically active diol in the presence of 4 A molecular sieve promoted the asymmetric addition of enamine 69 to the activated fumarate 70 [72]. Cyclobutane derivatives were formed when p,p-disubstituted enamines were employed. Titanium oxide derived from (l )-BINOL and (iPr0)2Ti=0 catalyzed the asymmetric addition of silyl thioenol ether 71 to enones [73]. The sulfur derivative ex-... 

For regioselective introduction of a chiral sidechain to C-2 of the indole nucleus the higher nucleophilicity of C-3 must be overcome. Employing the 4,7-dihydro derivatives the preferred reaction site is moved (to the active a-position of 4,5-disubstituted pyrroles), and asymmetric Michael reaction has been demonstrated with a chiral 3,3 -dibromo-BINOL as catalyst. ... 

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