Homoallyl alcohols 1,3-asymmetric induction

In the case of tri-substituted alkenes, the 1,3-syn products are formed in moderate to high diastereoselectivities (Table 21.10, entries 6—12). The stereochemistry of hydrogenation of homoallylic alcohols with a trisubstituted olefin unit is governed by the stereochemistry of the homoallylic hydroxy group, the stereogenic center at the allyl position, and the geometry of the double bond (Scheme 21.4). In entries 8 to 10 of Table 21.10, the product of 1,3-syn structure is formed in more than 90% d.e. with a cationic rhodium catalyst. The stereochemistry of the products in entries 10 to 12 shows that it is the stereogenic center at the allylic position which dictates the sense of asymmetric induction... 

Striking examples of this phenomenon are presented for allyl and homoallyl alcohols in Eqs. (5) to (7). The stereodirection in Eq. (5) is improved by a chiral (+)-binap catalyst and decreased by using the antipodal catalyst [60]. In contrast, in Eq. (6) both antipode catalysts induced almost the same stereodirection, indicating that the effect of catalyst-control is negligible when compared with the directivity exerted by the substrate [59]. In Eq. (7), the sense of asymmetric induction was in-versed by using the antipode catalysts, where the directivity by chiral catalyst overrides the directivity of substrate [52]. In the case of chiral dehydroamino acids, where both double bond and amide coordinate to the metal, the effect of the stereogenic center of the substrate is negligibly small and diastereoface discrimination is unsuccessful with an achiral rhodium catalyst (see Table 21.1, entries 9 and 10) [9]. 

Zrrconium(IV) and hafnium(IV) complexes have also been employed as catalysts for the epoxidation of olefins. The general trend is that with TBHP as oxidant, lower yields of the epoxides are obtained compared to titanium(IV) catalyst and therefore these catalysts will not be discussed iu detail. For example, zirconium(IV) alkoxide catalyzes the epoxidation of cyclohexene with TBHP yielding less than 10% of cyclohexene oxide but 60% of (fert-butylperoxo)cyclohexene °. The zirconium and hafnium alkoxides iu combiuatiou with dicyclohexyltartramide and TBHP have been reported by Yamaguchi and coworkers to catalyze the asymmetric epoxidation of homoallylic alcohols . The most active one was the zirconium catalyst (equation 43), giving the corresponding epoxides in yields of 4-38% and enantiomeric excesses of <5-77%. This catalyst showed the same sense of asymmetric induction as titanium. Also, polymer-attached zirconocene and hafnocene chlorides (polymer-Cp2MCl2, polymer-CpMCls M = Zr, Hf) have been developed and investigated for their catalytic activity in the epoxidation of cyclohexene with TBHP as oxidant, which turned out to be lower than that of the immobilized titanocene chlorides . ... 

Homoallylic alcohols (8, 111-112). The high rltreo-selectivity observed in the reaction of benzaldehyde with crotyl bromide (either irons or cis) is general for relatively unhindered aldehydes (equation I). High threo selectivity is still observed in the reaction with an a-methyl substituted aldehyde, but a-asymmetric induction (at C3) is rather low (2.2 1) with simple aldehydes (equation II).1... 

Stereoselective epoxidation. A detailed study of epoxidation of homoallylic alcohols with this system indicates that the direction and degree of stereoselectivity can be predicted from a vanadate ester transition state with the chair comformation A. for example, the selectivity is > 100 1 when R1 and R4 = H and R3 and R - alkyl, since 1,3-interactions are minimal. R1 can also be a methyl group, but the reaction is slowed. When R1 = isopropyl and R3 = methyl, severe 1,3-interactions in both chair forms result in low asymmetric induction (2 1 selectivity).2... 

Asymmetric allylboration of RCHO. (S)-l reacts with aliphatic or aryl aldehydes or with a,p-enals to form homoallylic alcohols in 92-97% ee and 80-92% chemical yield. The chemical and optical yields are higher than those obtained with B-allyldiisopinocamphenylborane (14,12), with allylboronates modified with tartrates, or with B-allyltrimethylsilylboronates. The high asymmetric induction is believed to result from steric effects rather than electronic effects. 

Roush et al. discovered that the tartrate ester-modified allylboronates, such as diisopropyl tartrate allylboronate (.S, .S )-41, react with achiral aldehydes to give the homoallylic alcohols 42 in good yields and high levels of enantioselectivity of up to 87% ee when the reaction is carried out in toluene in the presence of 4-A molecular sieves20 (Scheme 3.1q). To rationalize the asymmetric induction realized by 41, two six-membered transition states were compared (Scheme 3.1r). It was reasoned that transition state A was favored over transition state B due mainly to the nonbonded electronic repulsive interactions of the lone-pair electrons of the aldehyde oxygen and the carbonyl oxygen of the tartrate ester. 

In the Type II allylation reactions of a-methyl-/i-alkoxy aldehydes, the principles of 1,2- and 1,3-asymmetric induction both contribute to the reaetion diastereo-selectivity. Evans and co-workers have explained the stereoehemical outcome of these reactions in terms of a merged 1,2- and 1,3-asymmetric induction model [931- For example, the 2,3-anti aldehyde 135 reacts with allyl- and methallyltri-n-butylstannanes 98, generating the Felkin homoallylic alcohols 136 with >99 1 diastereoselectivity (Eq. (11.8)) [93]. 

Homoallylic alcohols. 1,4-Asymmetric induction is observed when the... 

Figure 4.6. Internal asymmetric induction in homogeneous hydrogenation of allylic and homoallylic alcohols.

A special type of iodolactonization is the iodocarbonate cydization of homoallylic alcohols 927 [663]. Iodocarbonate cydization is an efficient and moderately erythro-stereoselective method for the functionalization of homoallylic alcohols with relative 1,3-asymmetric induction. 

Me02CCH0/H+ -7.90 eV, vide infra), by the BINOL-Ti catalyst (1) (Table 1). The reaction was carried out by simply adding an olefin and tfien freshly dehydrated and distilled fluoral (2a) at 0 C to the solution of the chiral titanium complex (1) prepared from (/ )- or (5)-BINOL and diisopropoxytitanium dihalide in the presence of molecular sieves MS 4A as described for die glyoxylate-ene reaction (5). The reaction was completed widiin 30 min. The ene-type product, namely homoallylic alcohol (3) was obtained along with the allylic alcohol (4) (entries 1-4). The enantiomeric purities of both products were determined to be more than 95% ee by 1h NMR analysis after transformation to the (5)- and (/ )-MTPA ester derivatives. Thus, the absolute configuration of the products was determined by the Mosher method (8). The sense of asymmetric induction is, therefore, exactly the same as observed for the glyoxylate-ene reaction the (/ )-catalyst provides the (/ )-alcohol products (5). 

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