Asymmetric reactions Heck reactions

While 2,3-dihydrofuran (1) was the initial test substrate of choice for the intermolecular asymmetric Mizoroki-Heck reaction, the reaction was also applied to 2,3-dihydropyrrole 12, which shows similar patterns of both regio- and stereoselectivity to 2,3-dihydrofuran (1) [16], The intermolecular Mizoroki-Heck reaction with substituted 2,3-dihydropynole 12 and aryl triflates 13 gave mixtures of the 2-aryl-2,3-dihyropym)les 14 and the 2-aryl-2,5-dihydropyrroles 15, with the 2,3-product being the major product formed with a 74% ee (Scheme 11.9). 

Dendritic catalysis have been used in various chemical reactions, including the Suzuki-Miyaura reaction, Mizoroki-Heck reaction, hydrogenation reaction, carbonylation and hydroformylation reactions, oxidation reaction, polymerization and oligomerization reactions, arylation reaction, alkylation reaction, and asymmetric synthesis [6]. Recently, dendritic catalysts have been reviewed by Astmc et al. [6], In another review article. Reek et al. reviewed the applications of dendrimers as support for recoverable catalysts and reagents [58]. The authors believed that catalytic performance in these systems depends on used dendritic architecture. 

Asymmetric cyclization using chiral ligands has been studied. After early attempts[142-144], satisfactory optical yields have been obtained. The hexahy-dropyrrolo[2,3-6]indole 176 has been constructed by the intramolecular Heck reaction and hydroaryiation[145]. The asymmetric cyclization of the enamide 174 using (S j-BINAP affords predominantly (98 2) the ( )-enoxysilane stereoisomer of the oxindole product, hydrolysis of which provides the ( l-oxindole aldehyde 175 in 84% yield and 95% ec. and total synthesis of (-)-physostig-mine (176) has been achieved[146]. 

Asymmetric Heck reaction of the conjugated diene 184 and subsequent acetate anion capture of the rr-allylpalladium intermediate afforded 185 in 80% ee. which was converted into the key intermediate 186 for the capnelle-... 

Asymmetric Heck reaction in synthesis of heterocycles 97T7371. 

For the performance of an enantioselective synthesis, it is of advantage when an asymmetric catalyst can be employed instead of a chiral reagent or auxiliary in stoichiometric amounts. The valuable enantiomerically pure substance is then required in small amounts only. For the Fleck reaction, catalytically active asymmetric substances have been developed. An illustrative example is the synthesis of the tricyclic compound 17, which represents a versatile synthetic intermediate for the synthesis of diterpenes. Instead of an aryl halide, a trifluoromethanesul-fonic acid arylester (ArOTf) 16 is used as the starting material. With the use of the / -enantiomer of 2,2 -Z7w-(diphenylphosphino)-l,F-binaphthyl ((R)-BINAP) as catalyst, the Heck reaction becomes regio- and face-selective. The reaction occurs preferentially at the trisubstituted double bond b, leading to the tricyclic product 17 with 95% ee. °... 

Table 7.2 Chiral NHC-Pd(II) complexes in asymmetric oxidative Heck reaction...

A novel phosphinito dipeptido ligand series were prepared, and fully characterized. These ligands readily form metal complexes with Pd(H) and Pt(II) precursors. The Pd(II) complexes were investigated for their suitability in asymmetric Heck reaction using 3,4-dihydrofuran as a substrate. 

The Heck reaction has proven to be an extremely useful method for the formation of C-C bond at a vinyl carbon centre. There are numerous reported examples of enantioselctive Pd catalyzed C-C bond forming reactions.10"13 Surprisingly, reports of Heck transformations using amino acid based phosphine, phosphinite ligands are rare. Recently Gilbertson reported a proline derived phosphine-oxozoline ligand in a catalytic asymmetric Heck reaction.5 In this paper we present some novel amino acids derived ligands as part of a catalytic system for use in asymmetric Heck reactions. 

Pd complexes 9-12 were tested for their catalytic behavior in the asymmetric Heck reaction involving the phenylation of 2,3-dihydrofuran (Scheme 3). The results are summarized in Table 2. The two isomeric products of 2-phenyl-2,5-dihydrofuran are formed with varying yields from 80% to 0%. The obtained ee s are high. Complex 12 is shown to be catalytically inactive. The lack of catalysis in complex 12 is rationalized by differences in the steric requirements between the diphenylphosphinites 1-3 (cone angle >140°) and the more sterically hindered cyclohexyl-phosphinite 4 (cone angle >170°) and the resulting stereochemistry on the Pd center. The ligands in complex 12 adopt a... 

The Shibasaki group [27] developed an enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-xes-toquinone (6/1-38) using an asymmetric double Heck reaction with BINAP as chi-... 

Thus, [HRh(C0)(TPPTS)3]/H20/silica (TPPTS = sodium salt of tri(m-sulfophenyl)phopshine) catalyzes the hydroformylation of heavy and functionalized olefins,118-122 the selective hydrogenation of a,/3-unsaturated aldehydes,84 and the asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-(6 -methoxy-2 -naphthyl)acrylic add (a precursor of naproxen).123,124 More recently, this methodology was tested for the palladium-catalyzed Trost Tsuji (allylic substitution) and Heck (olefin arylation) reactions.125-127... 

Other enantioselective reactions performed by microwave heating include asymmetric Heck reactions (Scheme 6.53 a) [109] and ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogen-transfer processes (Scheme 6.53 b) [110]. 

Novel C2-symmetric thiophene-containing ligands have recently been prepared and utilized in asymmetric synthesis. Dithiophene 158 was utilized as a ligand in the asymmetric reduction of p-ketoesters (prostereogenic carbonyl) and acrylic acids (carbon-carbon double bond) <00JOC2043>. Dibenzo[b]thiophene 159 was utilized as a ligand in enantioselective Heck reactions of 2-pyrrolines <00SL1470>. 

A short five-step synthesis of a bifuran, namely ( )-2,2 -bis(diphenylphosphino)-3,3 -binaphtho[2,l-I>]furan (BINAPFu) from naphthofuranone via a low-valent titanium-mediated dimerization was reported. The newly developed resolution procedure for phosphines was utilized to provide the optically active bidentate phosphine ligands (BINAPFu), which consistently outperforms BINAP in the asymmetric Heck reaction between 2,3-dihydrofuran and phenyl triflate . Another way in which a benzofuranone can be converted into benzo[7 ]furan is by treatment of the former with 1-BU2AIH at -78°C followed by an acidic work up <00TL5803>. 

The asymmetric synthesis of a galanthamine alkaloid relies also on the intramolecular Heck reaction for the preparation of the benzo[h]furan-based key intermediate with a crucial chiral quaternary center, which eventually leads to the synthesis of (-)-galanthamine <00JA11262>. A similar approach towards the construction of galanthamine ring system via an intramolecular Heck reaction has also been investigated <00SL1163>. 

The asymmetric Wacker methodology has also been extended to include a tandem Heck reaction.416 An elegant... 

Palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins and the analogous alkenylation (Heck reaction) are the useful synthetic methods for carbon-carbon bond formation.60 Although these reactions have been known for over 20 years, it was only in 1989 that the asymmetric Heck reaction was pioneered in independent work by Sato et al.60d and Carpenter et al.61 These scientists demonstrated that intramolecular cyclization of an alkenyl iodide or triflate yielded chiral cyclic compounds with approximately 45% ee. The first example of the intermolecular asymmetric Heck reaction was reported by Ozawa et al.60c Under appropriate conditions, the major product was obtained in over 96% ee for a variety of aryl triflates.62... 

Overman s group [71,72] enlisted an intramolecular Heck reaction to form a quaternary center in their efforts toward ( )-gelsemine. When the cyclization precursor 70 was submitted to the ligandless conditions [Pd2(dba)3, Et3N] in the weakly coordinating solvent toluene, the quaternary center was formed as a 9 1 ratio of diastereomers (72 71 = 89 11). Addition of a silver salt in polar solvent THF completely reversed the sense of asymmetric induction in the cyclization reaction (72 71 = 3 97). 

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