DuPHOS, addition with

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. 

Asymmetric hydrophosphination has been utilized as a route for preparing chiral phosphines. The Pt° complex [(Me-DUPHOS)Pt(t/ tf/ ,s-PhCII ClIPh)] (73) brings about the catalytic P-H addition of bulky secondary phosphines to activated alkenes with modest enantioselectivity. The most promising substrate combinations for further development appear to be bulky alkenes and less bulky phosphines (Scheme 46).195... 

Enamides, in addition to the acrylates shown above, are also asymmetrically hydrogenated with many of the same systems that prove useful for the acetamidoacrylate reductions. The Rh(I)/BICP (2(/J)-2/(i)-bis(dipenylphosphino)-1(R),] (R)-dicyclopenlane) 132 and Rh(I)/DuPHOS systems work well (>90% ee) for the asymmetric hydrogenation of /3-acctamidovinyl methoxymethyl ethers... 

The development of the next major class of ligands occurred during the 1990s, with Burks DuPhos (42) family of phospholane ligands [222, 223]. (An individual member of the family is named after the substituent R in Me-DuPhos, R=Me.) This structure could be considered an improvement on the DIOP-derived ligands, where the stereogenic centers are now closer to phosphorus. In addition to the aromatic spacer of DuPhos, there is also the related BPE (43) family, where the spacer between the two phosphorus atoms is less rigid. In both series the phosphorus is... 

The DuPHOS/potassium tert-butoxide system was also used to hydrogenate these substrates, in addition to substrates 19 and 22 (Fig. 30.6 Table 30.4) [6], Under normal conditions, ruthenium-diphosphine catalysts are known to be unreactive with styrenes however, in the presence of potassium tert-butoxide, the substrates 15-22 were hydrogenated with high conversion. 

A copper-catalyzed reaction using a chiral diphosphine hgand, DuPHOS, with an added lanthanide salt, provides good levels of enantioselectivity (67-91% ee) in additions of the simple allylboronate 31 to both aromatic and aliphatic ketones that present a large difference of steric bulk on the two sides of the carbonyl group. One such example is shown in Eq. 81. On the basis of B NMR experiments and on the lack of diastereoselectivity in crotylation reactions, the... 

The first Pd-catalysed addition of ArB(OH)2 to linear substrates R1CH=CCHCOR2 (R1 = aryl, alkyl, H R2 = alkyl, OEt) with DuPHOS (206) as chiral ligand required 0 50 °C (<99% ee) 47 Its non-enantioselective version, carried out with bipyridine as ligand, has also been reported.248... 

Finally, Boezio and Charette have shown that Me-DuPhos in combination with Cu(OTf)2 is effective in the enantioselective addition of dialkylzinc reagents to A-diphenylphosphinoylimines 76 to provide phosphinoylamines 77 with high selectivities (Scheme 13.28).73 Further study revealed that a bis(ligand)-Cu catalyst containing the mono-oxide of Me-DuPhos, and not Me-DuPhos itself, was responsible for the high enantioselectivities observed in this process.74... 

The chiral octanediol in turn is converted into the corresponding cyclic sulfate by reaction with thionyl chloride and subsequent oxidation with sodium periodate and a catalytic amount of ruthenium(ni) chloride (0.1 mol%) (eq 2). In the final step, 1,2-diphosphinobenzene is lithiated by treatment with n-butyllithium (n-BuLi 2 equiv, 1.6 mol% in hexane) followed by the addition of the (3R,6R)-octane-3,6-diol cyclic sulfate (2 equiv) and a further addition of 2.2 equiv of n-BuLi. (5,5)-Ethyl-DuPHOS is obtained in a yield of over 70% [78% yield was described for the (R,R)-enantiomer by an analogous method ]. In addition to (5,5)-ethyl-DuPHOS, a variety of related bisphospholanes either linked by an ethylene bridge, or bearing other 2,5-alkyl substituents, or with opposite configuration have been prepared by this methodology. ... 

As noted above, a stereoselective synthesis of the enamide is important. The azlac-tone method (Fig. 3) results in the preferential formation of the Z-enamide when an aromatic aldehyde is employed. In addition, this isomer usually precipitates from the reaction mixture and this simplifies purification. When an alkyl aldehyde is used, the ratio of enamide isomers is often 1 1 or close to this. In addition, many of these alkyl examples are not crystalline and physical separations such as chromatography have to be employed. This is obviously a limitation of the methodology when compared with catalysts that employ the DuPHOS ligands, and related ligand families where both isomers can be reduced down to the same enantiomer of the desired amino acid [12]. 

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