Ethane chirality

PROBLEM 5.5 Locate the planes of symmetry in the eclipsed conformation of ethane. In this conformation, is ethane chiral or achiral ... 

Even isotopes qualify as different substituents at a chirality center The stereo chemistry of biological oxidation of a derivative of ethane that is chiral because of deu terium (D = H) and tritium (T = H) atoms at carbon has been studied and shown to... 

In organic chemistry there are many important molecules that contain two or more groups each of which, in isolation, would be chiral. A simple example is that of 2,3-difluorobutane, shown in Figure 4.9. The molecule can be regarded as a substituted ethane and we assume that, as in ethane itself, the stable sttucture is one in which one CFIFCFI3 group is staggered relative to the other. 

The most effective catalysts for enantioselective amino acid synthesis are coordination complexes of rhodium(I) with 1,5-cyclooctadiene (COD) and a chiral diphosphine such as (JR,jR)-l,2-bis(o-anisylphenylphosphino)ethane, the so-called DiPAMP ligand. The complex owes its chirality to the presence of the trisubstituted phosphorus atoms (Section 9.12). 

Significant advance in the field of asymmetric catalysis was also achieved with the preparation of l,2-bis(phospholano)benzene (DuPHOS 4) and its confor-mationally flexible derivative (l,2-bis(phospholano)ethane, known as BPE) by Burk et al. [59]. Two main distinctive features embodied by these Hgands, as compared to other known chiral diphosphine ligands, are the electron-rich character of the phosphorus atoms on the one hand and the pseudo-chirality at phosphorus atoms, on the other. These properties are responsible for both the high activity of the corresponding metal complex and an enantioselection indepen-... 

An unprecedented stereoselective procedure to obtain enantiomerically pure transition cluster M3Q4 complexes consists of the direct excision of the M3Q7X4 n polymers using chiral diphosphanes, namely (+)-l,2-bis[(2J ,5R)-2,5-(dimethylphospholano)]ethane [(R,R)-Me-BPE] and its respective enantiomer [(S,S)-Me-BPE] to afford the trinuclear complexes (P)-[Mo3S4Cl3(J ,J -Me-BPE)3] and (Af)-[Mo3S4Cl3(S,S-Me-BPE)3] , respectively [30]. The structures of both enantiomers are shown in Fig. 7.3. The symbols (P) and (M) refer to the rotation of the chlorine atoms around the C3 axis, with the capping sulfur pointing towards the viewer. 

The low-temperature method was then applied to the resolution of ( )-2-hydroxy-2-(pentafluorophenyl)acetonitrile (7) (Fig. which is usahle for the syntheses of a variety of ethane diols, amino alcohols containing CgFj groups as novel chiral ligands. After screening lipases such as Amano PS and AK, lipase LIP Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipase immobilized on Hyflo Super-Cel, Toyobo,... 

N-donor ligand. The reaction appears to proceed via an acyclic iminoplatinum(II) intermediate that undergoes a subsequent intramolecular cyclization. Some mechanistic aspects of this versatile reaction have been elucidated.225,226 A4-l,2,4-oxadiazolines have been prepared by the [2+3] cycloaddition of various nitrones to coordinated benzonitrile in m-[PtCl2( D M SO)(PhCN)] precursors.227,228 Racemic and chiral [PtCl2(PhMeSO)(PhCN)] complexes have also been used in order to introduce a degree of stereoselectivity into the reaction, resulting in the first enantioselective synthesis of A4-l,2,4-oxadiazolines, which can be liberated from the complexes by the addition of excess ethane-1,2-diamine. 

A wide range of catalysts is now known that will bring about B H addition to simple terminal alkenes. For group 9 complexes, catalytic activity follows the order [(dppe)Rh (nbd)]+ > [Rh(PPh3)3Cl] > [(COD)Ir(PCy3)(C5H5N)]+ (where dppe = 2-bis(diphenylphosphino) ethane and nbd = norbornadiene).19 Different facial selectivity is found for catalytic hydroboration reactions of these compounds with chiral alkenes (Equation (1)). Thus, [(dppe)Rh(nbd)]+ gives... 

Early work in the field of asymmetric hydroboration employed norbornene as a simple unsaturated substrate. A range of chiral-chelating phosphine ligands were probed (DIOP (5), 2,2 -bis(diphenyl-phosphino)-l,l -binaphthyl (BINAP) (6), 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane (CHIRAPHOS) (7), 2,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane (BDPP) (8), and l,2-(bis(o-methoxyphenyl)(phenyl)phos-phino)ethane) (DIPAMP) (9)) in combination with [Rh(COD)Cl]2 and catecholborane at room temperature (Scheme 8).45 General observations were that enantioselectivities increased as the temperature was lowered below ambient, but that variations of solvent (THF, benzene, or toluene) had little impact. 

As discussed in Section 3.3.2, Corey demonstrated the utility of compound 55, prepared from 1,2-diphenyl-1,2-diamino ethane 54, as a chiral auxiliary for asymmetric aldol reaction. In a similar manner, his group utilized this compound 55 in both (R,R)- and (A,A)-forms for allylation reactions. Treatment of 55 with allyltributyltin in dry CH2CI2 at 0°C and then 23°C for 2 hours gives chiral allyl-borane 135. In this process, both the (R,R)- and (A,A)-forms can be obtained and applied in asymmetric allylation reactions. Thus, treatment of... 

The mechanism of this one-pot reaction is proposed to be as follows (Figure 4.3) firstly, a chiral alkoxide ethylzinc is prepared from diethylzinc and the chiral alcohol with the evolution of a gas, which is probably ethane (I). The chiral ethylperoxyzinc alkoxide is formed by insertion of oxygen into the carbon zinc... 

The related chiral rhodium catalyst 4 has been used to effect kinetic resolution of these substrates.2 In this catalyst the achiral phosphine ligand of 1 is replaced by (R,R)-l,2-bis(o-anisylphenylphosphino)ethane (DIPAMP). Hydrogenation cat-... 

Brunner et al. [26] synthesized and applied so-called dendrizymes in enan-tioselective catalysis. These catalysts are based on dendrimers which have a functionalized periphery that carries chiral subunits, (e.g. dendrons functionalized with chiral menthol or borneol ligands). The core phosphine donor atoms can be complexed to (transition) metal salts. The resultant dendron-enlarged 1,2-diphosphino-ethane (e.g. 16, see Scheme 17) Rh1 complexes were used as catalysts in the hydrogenation of acetamidocinnamic acid to yield iV-acetyl-phenylalanine (Scheme 17) [26]. A small retardation of the hydrogenation of the substrate was encountered, pointing to an effect of the meta-positioned dendron substituents. No significantly enantiomerically enriched products were isolated. However, a somewhat improved enantioselectivity (up to 10-11% e.e.) was... 

The reaction appears to be general and the additions are regiospecific and stereoselective. The product from the reaction with 2-propanol has been used for the synthesis of cis-chrysanthemic acid,8 and the product with methanol has been used for the construction of novel 2, 3 -dideoxy-3 -hydroxymethylnucleosides.9 In addition, ethane-1,2-diol provides the expected photoadduct as a 1 1 mixture of the two possible diastereoisomers, and these can be easily separated as their acetonides, to provide compounds with three contiguous chiral centers emanating from furan-ones with only one chiral center.9 More recently, we have shown that photoinduced-... 

Metal salen complexes can adopt non-planar conformations as a result of the conformations of the ethane-1,2-diyl bridge. The conformations may have Cs or C2 symmetry, but the mixtures are racemic. Replacement of the ethylenediamine linker by chiral 1,2-diamines leads to chiral distortions and a C2 chiral symmetry of the complex due to the half-chair conformation of the 5-membered ring of the chelate. Depending on substitution at the axial positions of the salen complex, the symmetry may be reduced to Q, but as we have seen before in diphosphine complexes of rhodium (Chapter 4) and bisindenyl complexes of Group 4 metals (Chapter 10) substitution at either side leads to the same chiral complex. Figure 14.10 sketches the view from above the complex and a front view. 

To improve the rate of reduction the amino alcohol ligand of the ruthenium complexes was exchanged for monotosylated 1,2-diamine ligands. For exploratory experiments AT-tosylethane-1,2-diamine was prepared hy monotosylation of ethane-1,2-diamine and attached to the primary face of P-CD yielding 80. With P-CD as the only chiral unit the ruthenium complex of 80 could reduce aromatic and aliphatic standard ketones 63 and 69 in 91% 5deld, 25% ee (S) and 68% 5deld, 58% ee, respectively, within only 4h under standard conditions (Fig. 24). 

An iridium(I) complex with the l,2-bis(tcrt-butylmethylphosphino)ethane (4) and tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate as the counter anion catalyzes the hydrogenation of several acyclic aromatic Ai-arylimines under atmospheric hydrogen pressure at room temperature, giving the desired chiral amines with high-to-excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99%, Fig. 6) [19]. The authors also tested (S )-BINAP (Fig. 1) and (/ )-Ph-PHOX (PHOX = 2-[2-(diphenylphosphino) phenyl]-4,5-dihydrooxazole) hgands with lower enantioselectivities [19]. Both steric and electronic properties of the ligand and the combination with the BArF anion are in the base of the efficacy of this catalytic system. On the other hand, attempted hydrogenations of Ai-(2,2,2-trifluoro-l-phenylethylidene)aniline and M-(l,2,2-trimethyl-propylidene)aniline under the same conditions resulted in... 

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