Hydroboration asymmetric olefins

Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroboration. The hydroboration of olefins with catecholborane (an achiral hydroborating agent) is cataly2ed by cationic rhodium complexes with enantiomericaHy pure phosphines, eg, [Rh(cod)2]BE4BINAP, where cod is 1,5-cyclooctadiene and BINAP is... 

Boronic esters have been used in a wide range of transformations. These useful reagents have been transformed into numerous functional groups and are essential reagents for several C-C bond-forming reactions. Transition metal-catalyzed hydroboration of olefins often leads to mixtures of branched and linear products. Several groups have reported asymmetric reductions of vinyl boronic esters [50-52] with chiral rhodium P,P complexes however, the first iridium-catalyzed reduction was reported by Paptchikhine et al (Scheme 10) [53]. 

TABLE 2.5. Asymmetric Hydroboration of Olefins with Rhodium Catalysts and Catecholborane ... 

Asymmetric olefins, which carry more alkyl substituents at the Ce center than at the Ca center, are also hydroborated by the unhindered BH3 with considerable regioselectivity (Table 3.1). After oxidative workup, one isolates the alcohol in the a position almost exclusively. According to what has already been stated, as the more bulky reagent, 9-BBN reacts with more sensitivity to steric effects than BH3 and its secondary products. It therefore makes possible olefin hydrations with almost perfect regiocontrol. 

The hydroboration of asymmetrical olefins thus gives monoalkylboranes (addition... 

Table 3 A. Generalized Examples of Enantioselectivity in the Hydroboration of Olefins with Asymmetric Hydroboration Agents ...

Carbonylation. Dialkylchloroboranes have also been used in the preparation of asymmetric ketones via reduction-hydroboration-carbonylaton protocol. In the presence of 1.0 equiv of trimethyl silane, IpcBCl2 is reduced to IpcBHCl, which selectively hydroborates terminal olefins faster than internal olehns, furnishing the dialkyl chloroborane. Upon further reduction of the R2BCI with LiAlH4, the internal olefin undergoes hydrobora-... 

Hoveyda et al. reported the enantioselective synthesis of (+)-africanol through asymmetric olefin metathesis followed by one-carbon contraction via decarbonylation (Scheme 8.16) [65]. When symmetrical norbornene 84 was treated with a chiral molybdenum catalyst, desymmetrization took place to afford the chiral bicycle 85 in an enantioselective fashion. The resulting vinyl terminus was subsequently transformed into a methyl group via hydroboration, oxidation to aldehydes, and decarbonylation. Further manipulations of the functional groups gave (+)-africanol. 

A new synthesis of chiral ketones relies on the high levels of asymmetric induction observed in the hydroboration of olefins by monoisopino-campheyl-borane (Scheme 15). The optical and chemical yields are high, and the chiral auxiliary may be readily recovered and recycled. 

There have been several reviews of asymmetric synthesis via chiral organoboranes (6,8,378,382,467—472). Asymmetric induction in the hydroboration reaction may result from the chiraHty present in the olefin (asymmetric substrate), in the reagent (asymmetric hydroboration), or in the catalyst (catalytic asymmetric hydroboration). 

EinaHy, kinetic resolution of racemic olefins and aHenes can be achieved by hydroboration. The reaction of an olefin or aHene racemate with a deficient amount of an asymmetric hydroborating agent results in the preferential conversion of the more reactive enantiomer into the organoborane. The remaining unreacted substrate is enriched in the less reactive enantiomer. Optical purities in the range of 1—65% have been reported (471). 

We note that there are NMR-based kinetic studies on zirconocene-catalyzed pro-pene polymerization [32], Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of olefins [33], titanocene-catalyzed hydroboration of alkenes and alkynes [34], Pd-catalyzed olefin polymerizations [35], ethylene and CO copolymerization [36] and phosphine dissociation from a Ru-carbene metathesis catalyst [37], just to mention a few. 

Asymmetric hydroboration.1 This borane effects enantioselective hydroboration of rr. v-trisubstituted acyclic and cyclic olefins to provide, after oxidation, (R)-alcohols with optical purities of 60 78% ee. The steric requirements of 1 are less than those of diisopinocampheylborane(l, 262-263 4, 161), but greater than those of isopinocam-phcylborane (8,267). 

Rhodium and palladium catalysts that contain 4 display high enantioselectivities for the asymmetric hydrogenation of enamides, itaconates, P-keto esters, asymmetric hydroboration, and asymmetric allylic alkylation,80 82 but this ligand system distinguishes itself from other chiral bisphos-phines in the asymmetric reduction of tetrahydropyrazines and tetrasubstituted olefins (see also Chapter 15). The reduction of tetrahydropyrazines produces the piperazine-2-carboxylate core,... 

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