Enantioselective addition of diethylzinc

The first reported chiral catalysts allowing the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aryl aldehydes in up to 60% cc were the palladium and cobalt complexes of 1,7,7-trimethylbicy-clo[2.2.1. ]heptane-2,3-dione dioxime (A,B)3. A number of other, even more effective catalysts, based on the camphor structure (C K, Table 26) have been developed. 

Although it is known that in some cases the lithium salts of chiral amino alcohols are even better catalysts than the chiral ligands themselves, the use of metals other than lithium has rarely been investigated. The oxazaborolidines A and B and the aluminum analog C have been used as catalysts for the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde35 (Table 32). 

A polymer-supported version of our optimal ligand was also developed [52]. Its preparation involves attachment of aziridine carbinols to polymer-bound triphenylchloromethane (Scheme 40). This polymer-bound ligand 53 was almost equally effective in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes with ee s ranging from 77-97% for the latter type of substrate [52]. It is of practical interest that this polymer-supported ligand could be reused without losing much of its efficiency. 

On the other hand, S/O ligands have been developed to a lesser extent, but their efficient use as chiral ligands was proven in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes and also in the copper-catalysed asymmetric conjugate addition. 

Attached to the periphery of a lst-generation dendrimer, Ti(OCHMe2)2-com-plexes of the six TADDOL moieties in 84 catalyze - in homogeneous solution -the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde with about the same selectivity ((S) (R) 97 3) as do six monomeric TADDOL units [105],but, with a molecular weight of only 3833 Da, dendrimer 84 had to be separated by column chromatography rather than by ultrafiltration methods. 

Seebach and co-workers copolymerized a dendritically modified TADDOL ligand with styrene (Figure 9). When associated with Ti(OiPr)4, the immobilized catalyst gave a very high ee (98%) for more than 20 runs in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde95 96... 

Figure 9 Supported Ti-TADDOLate catalyst for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde...

The optically active reagent (5)-l-methyl-2-(diphenylhydroxymethyl)-azitidine [(5)-114] has also been reported to catalyze the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to various aldehydes. The resulting chiral secondary alcohols 115 are obtained in up to 100% ee under mild conditions (Scheme 2-44).111 Furthermore, most of the 114-type ligands have also been used in the ox-... 

Chiral quaternary ammonium salts in solid state have also been used as catalysts for the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes (Scheme 2-45).112 In most cases, homogeneous chiral catalysts afford higher enantio-selectivities than heterogeneous ones. Scheme 2-45 presents an unusual asymmetric reaction in which chiral catalysts in the solid state afford much higher enantioselectivities than its homogeneous counterpart.112... 

The optically active //-amino alcohol (1 / . 3 R. 5 / )-3-(di phenyl hydroxymethyl )-2-azabicyclo[3.3.0]octane [(li ,3i ,5i )-121], can be derived from a bicyclic proline analog. It catalyzes the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to various aldehydes. Under mild conditions, the resulting chiral secondary alcohols are obtained in optical yields up to 100%. The bicyclic catalyst gives much better results than the corresponding (S )-proline derivative (S )-122 (Scheme 2-47).114... 

Scheme 2-49. TADDOL and its analogs as titanium ligands in enantioselective addition of diethylzinc reagents to benzaldehyde.

Similarly, Ramon and Yus140 reported the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc and dimethylzinc to prochiral ketones catalyzed by camphorsulfona-mide-titanium alkoxide derivatives as shown in Scheme 2-54. 

K. Soai, M. Watanabe, Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts as Solid State Catalysts for the Enantioselective Addition of Diethylzinc to Aldehydes , J. Chem Soc, Chern. Commun 1990, 43-44. 

Enantioselective addition of R2Zn to aldehydes. Corey and Hannon2 have prepared the diamino benzylic alcohol 1 from (S)-proline and (lS,2R)-( + )-ephed-rine and report that the chelated lithium salt of 1 is an effective catalyst for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aromatic aldehydes. Thus benzaldehyde can be converted into (S)-( - )-3 with 95% ee, via an intermediate tridentate lithium complex such as 2 formed from 1. Similar reactions, but catalyzed by diastereomers of 1, show that the chirality of addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes is controlled by the chirality of the benzylic alcohol center of 1. 

The same laboratory has prepared three tridentate zinc chelates from chiral tertiary amino phenolic alcohols and used them for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aryl aldehydes in 70-87% ee. Results with the ligand 4 [from (1S,2S)-(+ )-pseudoephedrine] are typical. 

DOLate was formed which was tested in the Lewis acid catalyzed enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde. The authors note that the catalyst can be recovered by simple filtration and was active for at least more than twenty runs (refer also to Section 4.2.3) [102]. 

Enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde has been promoted by indole-containing chiral oxazolidines (which are able to use both O and N atoms to effect metal coordination in the transition state), and by chiral o-hydroxyphenyl diaza-phospholidine oxide,and by chiral aziridino alcohols.Enantioselective addition of dialkylzinc to prostereogenic ketones has been promoted using chiral camphorsul-fonamide derivatives. 

In the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde, a wide variety of chiral catalysts 3, 4, 16, 23, 47, 66-73 exhibits asymmetric amplification (equation 36 and Table 1). 

Recently, dendrimers, which are hyperbranched macromolecules, were found to be an appropriate support for polymer catalysts, because chiral sites can be designed at the peripheral region of the dendrimers (Scheme 5). Seebach synthesized chiral dendrimer 14, which has TADDOLs on its periphery and used an efficient chiral ligand in the Ti(IV)-promoted enantioselective alkylation [21]. We developed chiral hyperbranched hydrocarbon chain 15 which has six p-ami-no alcohols [22], It catalyzes the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes. We also reported dendritic chiral catalysts with flexible carbosilane backbones [23]. 

Primary, secondary, and tertiary y-amino alcohols (27-30) have been used as chiral catalysts in the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aromatic aldehydes.109 The first evidence of the substituent-dependent enantioselectivity of 1,3-amino alcohol catalysts has been observed, and the phenomenon interpreted by using molecular modeling at the ab initio level. 

A series of chiral (3i ,5 RHlihvdroxypiperidine derivatives have been conveniently prepared from trans -4-hvdrox v- r.-proline and applied to the catalytic enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde and heptanal.110 The compound (31) has been found to show the best asymmetric induction in promoting the addition of Et2Zn to various aldehydes, providing (R)-secondary alcohols in up to 98% ee. 

Novel norephedrine-based chiral ligands with multiple stereogenic centers have been conveniently prepared from norephedrine and. -substituted pyrrole.112 These novel chiral ligands have been used to catalyse the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes and to chalcone in high yields and with good to high enantioselectivities. 

New chiral Schiff base catalysts for the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc reagents to aldehydes have been developed.115,116 The reaction of aldehyde with diethylzinc in the presence of 1-2 mol% of the chiral Schiff base catalyst has provided the corresponding secondary alcohol with excellent enantiomeric excess (up to 96% ee). 

Enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes has been catalyzed by diastere-omeric monosubstituted [2.2]paracyclophane-based A,0-ligands.117 A remarkable cooperative effect of planar and central chiralities has been observed. 

Copper-catalysed enantioselective addition of diorganozincs to phosphinoylimines has been reported42 as has enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to A-acylal-... 

A study of enantioselective additions of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde, using chiral carboline and oxazolidine auxiliaries, has examined the requirements to allow the conformations of the free ligands to be related to the ees and transition states, given that several steps intervene.228... 

Cyclic derivatives of 1,2- and 1,3-amino alcohols have been trialled as chiral catalysts in the addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde.229 Enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde is the subject of other reports,230,231 including the use of triazinyl-BINOLs as enantioselective catalysts of addition to araldehydes, using Ti(IV) tetraisopropoxide.232 Two optically active amino thiocyanate derivatives (60) of (-)-norephedrine act as aprotic ligands for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes in up to 96% ee.233 The ee drops drastically if the -SCN group is changed to -SR. 

Synthesis of a series of iV-sulfonylated amino alcohols and their use as ligands of titanium(IV) in enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes has been described.234... 

The enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aromatic aldehydes has been performed in the presence of an IV-sulfonylated amino alcohol-Ti(0-/-Pr)4 catalytic system.113 In the presence of (42), excellent enantioselectivities (up to 94% ee) have been obtained. The study revealed that the steric bulk of the camphor group does not affect the stereocontrol. 

Optically active amino thiocyanate derivatives of (—)-norephedrine [e.g. (44)] have been found to act as effective aprotic ligands for enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes.115 This reaction has provided optically active secondary alcohols with ee up to 96%. 

Solvent-free enantioselective additions of diethylzinc to aldehydes and to N-diphenylphos-phinoylimines using /i-amino alcohols as chiral catalysts afforded chiral sec-alcohols and N-... 

Scheme 15. Catalytic enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to N-diphenylphosphinoylimines [44b].

As the nucleophilicity of dialkylzinc is accelerated by the presence of (3 amino-alcohol, diethylzinc adds to benzaldehyde to afford 1-phenylpropanol.2 Several duraTfS-aminoalcohols 1-7 have been proven to be highly enantioselective catalysts for the addition of primary dialkylzincs mostly to aromatic aldehydes. For example, 1-phenylpropanol is prepared with high ee from the enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde using 1-7 (Fig. 12.1, the ee and configuration of prepared 1-phenylpropanol are shown in parentheses).3 8... 

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