Ferrocenylphosphines, chiral

Ferrocenylphosphines, chiral. Hayashi et al.1 have prepared a large number of chiral ferrocenylophosphines, which have planar chirality owing to 1,2-unsymmetrical substitution on the ferrocene group. In addition, one of the substituents contains a chiral carbon atom. The most interesting phosphines have amino or hydroxyl groups in the side chain. These phosphines, in combination with transition metals, can promote highly efficient enantioselective reactions. 

ASYMMETRIC HYDROGENATION (2R, 4R) and (2S, 4S)-N-Acryloyl-4-(diphenylphosphine)2-[(diphenylphosphine)methyl]pyrrolidine. (2S, 4S)-N-(r-Butoxycarbonyl)-4-(diphenylphosphine)-2-[(diphenylphosphine)methyl]pyrrolidine. Ferrocenylphosphines, chiral. ASYMMETRIC PHENYLTHIOLATION Quinine. 

Scheme 6.7 shows some other examples of enantioselective catalysts. Entry 1 illustrates the use of a Co(III) complex, with the chirality derived from the diamine ligand. Entry 2 is a silver-catalyzed cycloaddition involving generation of an azome-thine ylide. The ferrocenylphosphine groups provide a chiral environment by coordination of the catalytic Ag+ ion. Entries 3 and 4 show typical Lewis acid catalysts in reactions in which nitrones are the electrophilic component. 

The gold(I) complex of a chiral ferrocenylphosphine complex promotes asymmetric aldol reactions of a-isocyanocarboxylates to form chiral oxazolines in high diastereo- and enantio-selectivities (Scheme 52).225,226 In these reactions, the analogous silver(I) ferrocenylphosphine complex also works well. 

This alkylation reaction can be applied to intramolecular alkylation affording cyclic products, as shown in Equations (19)-(21). The reaction of 2-vinylpyridines with 1,5- or 1,6-dienes results in the formation of five- or six-membered carbocycles with good efficiency.20,20a,20b In addition to pyridine functionality, oxozole and imidazole rings can be applied to this intramolecular cyclization. When the reaction is conducted in the presence of a monodentate chiral ferrocenylphosphine and [RhCl(coe)2]2, enantiomerically enriched carbocycles are obtained. A similar type of intramolecular cyclization is applied to TV-heterocycles. The microwave irradiation strongly... 

In the asymmetric hydrosilylation of 1,3-cyclohexadiene 38 (Scheme 10, Table 4), catalyzed by chiral ferrocenylphosphines 5 and 40, the enantioselectivity is higher with phenyldifluorosilane than that with trichlorosilane or methyldichlorosilane (entries 1—4). The reaction of 38 with phenyldifluorosilane in the presence of a palladium catalyst coordinated with ferrocenylphosphine 40b gave allylsilane (A)-39c with 77% ee.58,59 The use of (j3-N-sulfonylaminoalkyl (phosphine 35a for the reaction of 38 with methyldichlorosilane exhibited the same level of asymmetric induction (entries 5-6).53 In this asymmetric hydrosilylation, combination of trichlorosilane and... 

Asymmetric Aldol Reactions with a Chiral Ferrocenylphosphine-Gold( I) Complex... 

TABLE 6-1. Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Trisubstituted Acrylic Acids Catalyzed by Chiral Ferrocenylphosphine-Rhodium Complexes... 

Asymmetric Synthesis Catalyzed by Chiral Ferrocenylphosphine Complex... 

Asymmetric aldol reaction. In the presence of a gold(I) complex (1) and a chiral ferrocenylphosphine (2), various aldehydes react with methyl isocyanoacetate... 

Asymmetric hydrogenation of a,fi-unsa turated acids.1 2- Aryl-3-methyl-2-bu-tenoic acids (2) undergo highly stereoselective hydrogenation catalyzed by a complex of rhodium with the chiral (aminoalkyl)ferrocenylphosphine (1), but not with... 

Further investigations are needed to establish, whether this approach is really useful to obtain chiral allylsilanes 2, which are synthetically quite interesting intermediates. They are available otherwise only by asymmetric cross-coupling of silyl alkyl Grignard reagents with bromoethylenes in the presence of a chiral ferrocenylphosphine-palladium catalyst54. 

Besides a considerable number of chiral Wilkinson-catalysts prepared from chiral a-hydroxy acids 33), carbohydrates 34), stereoids 35), and ferrocenylphosphines 36), many functionalized chiral hiphosphanes based on amino acids have also been developed. The first optically active tertiary phosphane was synthesized in 1961 by Horner et al.37). 

Ferrocenylphosphine-gold complexes, 225 Formaldehyde oligomerization, 332 Formic acid, transfer hydrogenation, 123 Formulas, chiral compounds, xiii-xvii Four-dimensional chemistty. See Asymmetric catalysis... 

An asymmetric preparation of alkenylcyclopropanes has also been realized by the use of palladium(O) complexes carrying chiral ferrocenylphosphine ligands (equation 22)38. The requisite rt-allyl palladium intermediates can also be generated from allene and meth-ylenecyclopropane derivatives, 1839 and 1940, in the presence of palladium(O) complex and alkenyl or aryl halide (equations 23 and 24). The cobalt complexes, 20, similarly afford the corresponding alkenylcyclopropanes upon exposure to LDA (equation 25)41. 

In 1986 Ito, Sawamura, and Hayashi [4] reported that gold(I) complexes prepared from cationic gold complex 1 and chiral ferrocenylphosphine ligands (2) bearing a tertiary amino group at the terminal position of a pendant chain are effective catalysts for asymmetric aldol reaction of... 

Pastor and Togni pointed out that the central chirality and the planar chirality in the ferrocenylphosphine ligand 2 are cooperative for stereoselection (the concept of internal cooperativity of chirality) [16,23,24]. As Table 8B1.7 shows, the change of chirality of the stereogenic carbon atom from R to, S results in the formation of the other trans-oxazoline enantiomer with moderate enantiomeric excess. 

Among chiral phosphine ligands used for the nickel- or palladium-catalyzed asymmetric cross-coupling, a series of the ferrocenylphosphines has shown a great success in terms of enantioselectivity and a variety of modified chiral ferrocenylphosphines has been applied to the reaction (10-16). The first example of asymmetric cross-coupling catalyzed by... 

Figure 8F.2. Chiral ferrocenylphosphines for asymmetric cross-coupling.

The ferrocenylphosphine-nickel catalysts are also applied to asymmetric synthesis of axially chiral biaryl compounds through the cross-coupling reaction. Although initial attempts to this... 

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