Enantioselectivity ligand development

In this chapter, the ligand design for the catalytic enantioselective oxidations developed after the Katsuki-Sharpless epoxidation and the Sharpless AD will be discussed. 

ESPHOS (178), a chiral bis(diazaphospholidine) ligand developed by the Wills group, has been found to be active in the asymmetric hydroformylation of vinyl acetate.231 (This ligand system is being commercialized by Stylacats.) Enantioselectivities of 87-89% ee and regioselectivities of 95/5 (b/1) have been obtained at 120 psig pressure of syn gas.232 Unfortunately, the substrate scope is not as broad as BINAPHOS. 

R,R)-4,6-Dibenzofiirandiyl-2,2 -bis(4-phenyloxazoline), DBFOX/Ph (5), is a novel tridentate bisoxazoline ligand developed by Kanemasa and coworkers that has been successfully used as a chiral Lewis acid in enantioselective Diels-Alder-reactions, nitrone cycloadditions and conjugate additions of radicals and thiols to 3-(2-alkenoyl)-2-oxazolidinones. Representative examples for cycloadditions using the Ni(C104)2-6H20 derived complex are shown below. 

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 . 

Enantiopure Yanphos ligands developed by Zhang s group were first used in the asymmetric Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of vinyl aromates and vinyl acetate (Scheme 2.127) [24]. In all cases, slightly improved regio- and enantioselectivities... 

Abstract Chiral ferrocenyl phosphine ligands are certainly one of the most developed and successful classes of chiral ligands used in asymmetric catalysis. The literature describing their synthetic and coordination chemistry, as well as their metal-mediated applications in the field of catalysis, is extremely rich and varied. Moreover, they represent a rare example in which enantioselective chemical catalysts were used in industrial processes. The present chapter provides an account of the planar-chiral ferrocene ligands developed in the Authors laboratory, including their coordination chemistry with various metals as well as their use in different asymmetric catalytic reactions (allylic substitution, Suzuki coupling, methoxycarbonylation of alkenes, hydrogenation of ketones). 

A more eflicient and general synthetic procedure is the Masamune reaction of aldehydes with boron enolates of chiral a-silyloxy ketones. A double asymmetric induction generates two new chiral centres with enantioselectivities > 99%. It is again explained by a chair-like six-centre transition state. The repulsive interactions of the bulky cyclohexyl group with the vinylic hydrogen and the boron ligands dictate the approach of the enolate to the aldehyde (S. Masamune, 1981 A). The fi-hydroxy-x-methyl ketones obtained are pure threo products (threo = threose- or threonine-like Fischer formula also termed syn" = planar zig-zag chain with substituents on one side), and the reaction has successfully been applied to macrolide syntheses (S. Masamune, 1981 B). Optically pure threo (= syn") 8-hydroxy-a-methyl carboxylic acids are obtained by desilylation and periodate oxidation (S. Masamune, 1981 A). Chiral 0-((S)-trans-2,5-dimethyl-l-borolanyl) ketene thioketals giving pure erythro (= anti ) diastereomers have also been developed by S. Masamune (1986). 

To overcome these problems with the first generation Brmsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acid 7, Yamamoto and coworkers developed in 1996 a second-generation catalyst 8 containing the 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid moiety [10b,d] (Scheme 1.15, 1.16, Table 1.4, 1.5). The catalyst was prepared from a chiral triol containing a chiral binaphthol moiety and 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid, with removal of water. This is a practical Diels-Alder catalyst, effective in catalyzing the reaction not only of a-substituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes, but also of a-unsubstituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes. In each reaction, the adducts were formed in high yields and with excellent enantioselectivity. It also promotes the reaction with less reactive dienophiles such as crotonaldehyde. Less reactive dienes such as isoprene and cyclohexadiene can, moreover, also be successfully employed in reactions with bromoacrolein, methacrolein, and acrolein dienophiles. The chiral ligand was readily recovered (>90%). 

In an extension of this work they developed a catalytic version of the reaction in which the chiral ligand (J ,J )-diisopropyltartrate (DIPT) was applied in 20 mol% [77]. In spite of the reduction of the amount of the chiral ligand similar high enantioselectivities of up to 93% ee were obtained in this work. The addition of a... 

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