Enantioface selection

The stannanes (-)-ent-12 and ( + )-ent- 3 (R = CH3) are obtained with >80% ee from the alkenyllithium (-)-sparteine complex105,107a (Section 1.3.3.3.1.1.). Hence, their titanium(IV) chloride mediated carbonyl additions are accompanied by chirality transfer and enantioface selection of opposite sense. This was demonstrated for the reaction with (5)-2-benzyloxy-propanal107b the d.r. (88 12) roughly reflects the enantiomeric composition of the stannanes. 

Various chiral auxiliaries and catalysts have been developed that allow diastereoface-and enantioface-selective Michael additions. 

The high enantioselectivity again can be rationalized by enantioface-selective alkene coordination in 63 (Fig. 35). The olefin moiety is expected to bind trans to the upper imidazoline moiety [70,73] thereby releasing the catalyst strain. Coordination at this position may, in principal, afford four different isomers assuming the stereoelectronically preferred perpendicular orientation of the alkene and the Pt(II) square plane. In the coordination mode shown, steric repulsion between both olefin substituents and the ferrocene moiety is minimized. Outer-sphere attack of the indole core results in the formation of the product s stereocenter. 

The low-temperature method is effective not only in the kinetic resolution of alcohols but also in the enantioface-selective asymmetric protonation of enol acetate of 2-methylcyclohexanone (15) giving (f )-2-methylcyclohexanone (16). The reaction in H2O at 30°C gave 28% ee (98% conv.), which was improved up to 77% ee (82% conv.) by the reaction using hpase PS-C 11 in /-Pt20 and ethanol at 0°C. Acceleration of the reaction with lipase PS-C 11 made this reaction possible because this reaction required a long reaction time. The temperature effect is shown in Fig. 14. The regular temperature effect was not observed. The protons may be supplied from H2O, methanol, or ethanol, whose bulkiness is important. 

Figure 14 Lipase-catalyzed enantioface-selective asymmetric protonation.

The heterobimetallic asymmetric catalyst, Sm-Li-(/ )-BINOL, catalyzes the nitro-aldol reaction of ot,ot-difluoroaldehydes with nitromethane in a good enantioselective manner, as shown in Eq. 3.78. In general, catalytic asymmetric syntheses of fluorine containing compounds have been rather difficult. The S configuration of the nitro-aldol adduct of Eq. 3.78 shows that the nitronate reacts preferentially on the Si face of aldehydes in the presence of (R)-LLB. In general, (R)-LLB causes attack on the Re face. Thus, enantiotopic face selection for a,a-difluoroaldehydes is opposite to that for nonfluorinated aldehydes. The stereoselectivity for a,a-difluoroaldehydes is identical to that of (3-alkoxyaldehydes, as shown in Scheme 3.19, suggesting that the fluorine atoms at the a-position have a great influence on enantioface selection. 

It has already been mentioned that prochirality of the olefin is not necessary for successful enantioselective cyclopropanation with an alkyl diazoacetate in the presence of catalysts 207. What happens if a prochiral olefin and a non-prochiral diazo compound are combined Only one result provides an answer to date The cyclopropane derived from styrene and dicyanodiazomethane shows only very low optical induction (4.6 % e.e. of the (25) enantiomer, catalyst 207a) 9S). Thus, it can be concluded that with the cobalt chelate catalysts 207, enantioface selectivity at the olefin is generally unimportant and that a prochiral diazo compound is needed for efficient optical induction. As the results with chiral copper 1,3-diketonates 205 and 2-diazodi-medone show, such a statement can not be generalized, of course. 

The sense of the enantioface selection of olefin in Mn(salen)-catalyzed epoxidation is determined by two factors the olefin s approaching path, and its orientation. 

Intermolecular cyclopropanation of olefins poses two stereochemical problems enantioface selection and diastereoselection (trans-cis selection). In general, for stereochemical reasons, the formation of /ra ,v-cyclopropane is kinetically more favored than that of cis-cyclopropane, and the asymmetric cyclopropanation so far developed is mostly /ram-selective, except for a few examples. Copper, rhodium, ruthenium, and cobalt complexes have mainly been used as the catalysts for asymmetric intermolecular cyclopropanation. 

Enantioselective hydrogenation of / -keto phosphonates in the presence of an ( R)-BINAP-Ru complex under 1-4 atm H2 and at room temperature provides the (R)-yS-hydroxy phosphonates in up to 99% ee (Fig. 32.20) [69]. The sense of enantioface selection is the same as that observed in the reaction of / -keto carboxylic esters (see Fig. 32.14). A BDPP-Ru catalyst is also usable [70]. Similarly, / -keto thiophosphonates are hydrogenated with a MeO-BIPHEP-Ru catalyst with up to 94% optical yield [69 b]. 

In the framework of the regular chain migratory mechanism of Figure 12, the enantioface selectivities we have calculated for the C2- and Cs-symmetric catalysts of Figures 13 and 14, explain the iso- and syndiospecificity experimentally found for the corresponding real catalysts [89-91]. 

G. Bellucci, C. Chiappe, A. Cordoni, F. Marioni, The Rabbit Liver Microsomal Biotransformation of 1,1-Dialkylethylenes Enantioface Selection of Epoxidation and Enantioselectivity of Epoxide Hydrolysis , Chirality 1994, 6, 207 - 212. 

Fig. 19. CD complexation enhances the difference between substituents at C = 0 facilitating enantioface-selective hydride addition.

One of the systems was found to be very efficient catalyzing enantioface-selective hydrogen transfer reactions to aromatic and in particular to aliphatic ketones with up to 95% ee. Regarding the latter reaction these are unprecedented ee values. The reaction mechanism of these transformations is best described as a metal-ligand bifunctional catalysis passing through a pericyclic-like transition state. 

It is worth noting that an opposite sense of enantioface selection is observed in going from the BINAP-Rh complex to the Ru catalyst. Hydrogenation of methyl (Z)-2-(acetamido)cinnamate with the (7 )-BlNAP-Ru catalyst in CH3OH gives the R (not S) product selectively (Figure pq) p g j-g illustrates the... 

Figure 1.31 illustrates a mechanism proposed for this hydrogenation. The titanocene hydride 31A is expected to be a catalytic species. The imine substrate is inserted into the Ti—H bond of 31A with a 1,2-fashion to form a titanocene amide complex 31B. Then the hydrogenolysis of 31B through a a-bond metathesis produces the amine product with regeneration of 31A. The enantioface selection... 

The Sharpless epoxidation of allylic alcohols with lert-butyl hydroperoxide/titanium tetraiso-propoxide/diisopropyl tartrate (DIPT) is a highly enantioface-selective reaction and follows the topicity shown51. 

For chiral-subsdtuted alcohols, e.g., 1/2, this inherent enantioface selectivity is modified by the diastereofacial influence of the carbinol center, which leads to the preferred formation of the erythro-cpoxy alcohol. Thus, for each DIPT enantiomer, one may distinguish between a matched (kinetically fast) and a mismatched (kinetically slow) diastereomer. After 50% conversion of the starting material 1/2, the products are 1 and 4 in case and 2 and 5 in case ... 

The lower enantioface selectivity at the carbonyl carbon of (2 )-hexadecenal with the lithiated derivative of (171b) (Scheme 67) has been... 

Imaginary asymmetric catalyst surface A mnemonic device for predicting enantioface selection... 

The chiral ir-allyl-Pd(II) intermediates shown in Scheme 84 undergo epimerization. The efficiency of this step and the regiochemistry of the nucleophilic attack to the exo face are very important for obtaining enantioface selection (Scheme 89). Bosnich analyzed the general characteristics of the asymmetric alkylation in terms of the properties of the allylic acetate substrates and of the 7T-allyl-Pd(II) intermediates, which undergo facile o-tc-o rearrangement, readily switching the face of Pd coordination (208). Examination of the dynamic equilibria of a series of cationic ir-allyl-Pd-chiral phosphine complexes has indicated that the 7r-allyl intermediates epimerize 10-100 times faster than the nucleo-... 

Use of the optically resolved complex leads to the optically active polymer, but this property, which arises from the helical chain structure, is found only in the swollen polymer and is easily lost in toluene or dichloroacetic acid solution 144). The polymerization occurs with a high degree of enantioface selection, and the model for the product backbone is indeed chiral. However, because of the presence of a mirror, plane in the polymer chain (effects of chain termini neglected), the product does not have chiral properties in solution. 

Figure 7.3. A quadrant model proposed to accommodate the enantioface-selection by rhodium complexes with chiral diphosphine ligands.

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