Ferrocenes enantiomerically pure

Ferrocene is best deprotonated by f-BuLi/f-BuOK in THF at 0 since BuLi alone will not lithiate ferrocene in the absence of TMEDA and leads to multiple lithiation in the presence of TMEDA. In the example in Scheme 134, a sulphur electrophile and a Kagan-Sharpless epoxidation lead to the enantiomerically pure sulphinyl ferrocene 278. The sulphinyl group directs stereoselective ortholithiation (see Section I.B.2), allowing the formation of products such as 279. Nucleophilic attack at sulphur is avoided by using triisopropylphenyllithium for this lithiation. 

Despite the resolution which was required to produce the enantiomerically pure starting materials (which fortunately is highly efficient—recrystalhzation of the mother liquors allows isolation of both enantiomers) , Ugi s lithiation provided the basis for a rapid growth in the use of enantiomerically pure, planar chiral ferrocenes which has continued since. Several reviews have covered applications of enantiomerically pure ferrocenes as chiral ligands, which until the 1990 s were all made using Ugi s method... 

Attempts to make C2-symmetric ferrocenes by double lithiation of a bis-acetal met with only limited success . A second lithiation of the ferrocenylacetal 298 leads to functionalization of the lower ring of the ferrocene, in contrast with the second adjacent lithiation of the oxazolines described below. This can be used to advantage if, for example, the first-formed aldehyde 301 is protected in situ by addition of the lithiopiperazine 53 °, directing f-BuLi to the lower ring (Scheme 139) °. The same strategy can be used to introduce further functionalization to products related to 302. For example, silane 303, produced in enantiomerically pure form by the method of Scheme 138, may be converted to the ferrocenophane 304 by lithiopiperazine protection, lithiation and functionalization (Scheme 140) . 

Aminocarbonylation has also been applied to the synthesis of unsymmetrical ferrocene-1,1 -bis-carboxamides. Ferrocene-based chiral ligands are very useful in asymmetric catalysis, and enantiomerically pure ferrocenyl ligands can be obtained by optical resolution of unsymmetrically substituted ferrocenes. However, the synthesis of such unsymmetrical ferrocenes is not an easy task. The use of aminocarbonylation gave a solution to this challenge. For example, the Pd-catalyzed reaction of symmetrical ferrocenyl diiodide 144 with two different amines, morpholine and diethylamine (5 equiv. each) under 39.5 atm of CO, gave the desired unsymmetrically disubstituted ferrocene-biscarboxamide 145 in 85% yield (Equation (11)). ... 

The principal question addressed, is there any kind of chiral recognition in electron transfer reactions involving GO or HRP and enantiomerically pure metal complexes. The chirality of optically active metal complexes may be different. Examples include central carbon chirality, when a complex has a side chain with an asymmetric sp3 carbon (Chart 2A), planar chirality as in the case of asymmetrically 1,2-substituted ferrocenes (Chart 2B,C), and central metal chirality when an octahedral central metal itself generates and enantiomers (Chart 2D) (202). These three types are discussed in this section. 

Asymmetric hydroboration of prochiral alkenes has been achieved using transition metal catalysts and chiral phosphines as ligands to obtain enantiomerically pure alkyl boronates <1997CC173>. Catalysts such as Rh(COD)2+BF4 , Rh(COD)2+Cl, Rh+BF4 , etc., in combination with chiral phosphines like DIOP 71, BINAP 72, CHIRAPHOS 73, DIPAMP 74, BDPP 75, ferrocene-based diphosphines 76<1999TL4977>, etc., have been employed for the asymmetric hydroboration of prochiral alkenes with moderate to high ee (DIOP = 2,3-0-isopropylidene-2,3-dihydroxy-l,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane BINAP = 2,2-bis(diphenyl-phos-phanyl)-l,1-binaphthyl CHIRAPHOS = 2,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane DIPAMP = l,2-bis[(2-methoxyphe-nyl)phenylphosphino]ethane BDPP = 2,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)pentane). 

Apart from the use of enantiomerically pure sulfinyl groups,361 ferrocenes have been lithiated enantioselectively using chiral bases.362 364... 

Ferrocene reacts with acetyl chloride and aluminum chloride to afford the acylated product (287) (Scheme 84). The Friedel-Crafts acylation of (284) is about 3.3 x 10 times faster than that of benzene. Use of these conditions it is difficult to avoid the formation of a disubstituted product unless only a stoichiometric amount of AlCft is used. Thus, while the acyl substituent present in (287) is somewhat deactivating, the relative rate of acylation of (287) is still rapid (1.9 x 10 faster than benzene). Formation of the diacylated product may be avoided by use of acetic anhydride and BF3-Et20. Electrophilic substitution of (284) under Vilsmeyer formylation, Maimich aminomethylation, or acetoxymercuration conditions gives (288), (289), and (290/291), respectively, in good yields. Racemic amine (289) (also available in two steps from (287)) is readily resolved, providing the classic entry to enantiomerically pure ferrocene derivatives that possess central chirality and/or planar chirality. Friedel Crafts alkylation of (284) proceeds with the formation of a mixture of mono- and polyalkyl-substituted ferrocenes. The reaction of (284) with other... 

Reaction of (284) with an aldehyde, ketone, or enol ether in the presence of acid results in an electrophilic substitution that produces a -ferrocenylalkyl carbocations that may be trapped by nucleophiles (azides, amines, thiols). This chemistry may be used to prepare enantiomerically pure ferrocene derivatives in a maimer that avoids resolution procedures (Scheme 86)." For example, the enol ether from (-)-menthone affords a kinetic carbocation (302) that may be trapped or allowed to rearrange to the more thermodynamically stable cation (303) and then trapped, thus offering a means of controlling the configuration of the stereocenter adjacent to the ferrocene unit. Use of an enantiomerically pure aldehyde derived from Q -pinene (304) affords a 1 1 carbocationic mixture that similarly isomerizes to a single cation. 

As resolution procedures are often tedious, and asymmetric synthesis provides chiral products with only limited enantiomeric excess, it seems an obvious strategy to use an enantiomerically pure material from the chiral pool to construct chiral ferrocenes by incorporating these compounds in the final product. As such chiral materials, cheap terpenes (menthone, a- and -pinene, and camphor) were chosen. The reaction of ferrocene with carbonyl compounds under acidic conditions is a very convenient way to obtain directly a-ferrocenylalkyl carbocations. The starting materials were therefore converted to aldehydes or their enol ethers (menthone and camphor are too sterically hindered and do not react with ferrocene). Joint dissolution of the aldehydes and ferrocene in trifluoroacetic acid or in the trichloroacetic acid/ fluorosulfonic acid system gives a-ferrocenylalkyl carbocations, which can either... 

An enantiomerically pure aldehyde, (lR,2R,3R)-2,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.1]hep-tane-2-aldehyde, is produced from a-pinene by rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation [79, 80]. Initially, reaction with ferrocene under acidic conditions leads to a 1 1 mixture of diastereoisomeric cations, but on standing for a few hours at room temperature, isomerization by rotation around the ferrocene — cationic carbon bond to the thermodynamically more stable cation (with configuration (R) at the cationic center) occurs (Fig. 4-11). An enantiomerically pure amine is available by trapping of this cation by azide and reduction [75]. Analogously, the isomeric aldehyde with the bicyclo [2.2.1] heptane structure is formed by hydroformylation of a-pinene with cobalt catalysts [79, 80] and was used as the starting material for an isomeric series of chiral amines [75]. 

In addition to stereoselective metalation, other methods have been applied for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure planar chiral compounds. Many racemic planar chiral amines and acids can be resolved by both classical and chromatographic techniques (see Sect. 4.3.1.1 for references on resolution procedures). Some enzymes have the remarkable ability to differentiate planar chiral compounds. For example, horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (HLADH) catalyzes the oxidation of achiral ferrocene-1,2-dimethanol by NAD to (S)-2-hydroxymethyl-ferrocenealdehyde with 86% ee (Fig. 4-2la) and the reduction of ferrocene-1,2-dialdehyde by NADH to (I )-2-hydroxymethyl-ferrocenealdehyde with 94% ee (Fig. 4-2lb) [14]. Fermenting baker s yeast also reduces ferrocene-1,2-dialdehyde to (I )-2-hydroxymethyl-ferro-cenealdehyde [17]. HLADH has been used for a kinetic resolution of 2-methyl-ferrocenemethanol, giving 64% ee in the product, (S)-2-methyl-ferrocenealdehyde... 

Asymmetric induction in ring closure reactions of central chiral ferrocene derivatives has been reported. Moderate diastereoselectivity was found in the ring closure of the enantiomeric 4-ferrocenyl-2-methyl-2-phenyl-butanoic acids by treatment with trifluoroacetic anhydride (Fig. 4-211) [10]. The diastereoisomeric ketones could be separated by chromatography. A higher induction was observed in an asymmetric Pictet — Spengler type cyclization of a reactive imine formed from enantiomerically pure 2-ferrocenyl-2-propylamine and formaldehyde, as only one isomer of the product was detected (Fig. 4-21 g) [135, 136]. 

Some uses of sugars in novel resolutions of enantiomers have been reported. The ferrocene derivative 225 could be isolated from reaction of a mixture of d,l-and meso-isomers of the corresponding ferrocene dicarbonyl chloride with methyl 4,6-0-benzylidene-a-D-glucopyranoside. This could then be converted by methanolysis into the enantiomerically-pure (R,/ )-ferrocene derivative 226. When the chiral pyridinium salt 227 was photolysed, equimolar amounts of the diastereomers 228 and 229 were obtained. Although no chirality transfer occurred, the two isomers could be separated after acetylation, and some further chemistry was performed on the fused aziridine ring of one of the dia-... 

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