Olefins chiral, hydroboration

Hydrogenation of olefins, enols, or enamines with chiral tVilkinson type catalysts, e.g., Noyort hydrogenation. Hydroboration of olefins with chiral boranes. Sharpless epoxi-dation of allylic alcohols. 

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]. 

Thought Experiment IV on the Hydroboration of Chiral Olefins with Chiral Dialkylboranes Kinetic Resolution... 

Inspired by the chiral phosphine/oxazoline ligands developed by Helmchen and Pfaltz [131], Crudden and coworkers, have prepared a chiral NHC-oxazoline possessing a rigid backbone (Fig. 14) [ 132 ]. The rhodium complex 74 has been used in the catalytic hydroboration of olefins and the hydrosilylation of prochiral ketones with enantiomeric excesses that did not exceed 10%. 

Brunei, J.-M., Buono, G. Enantioselective rhodium catalyzed hydroboration of olefins using chiral bis(aminophosphine) ligands. Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 3561-3564. 

Chiral trialkylboranes which are important synthetic intermediates are available by hydroboration of olefins with dialkylboranes - . ... 

The development of enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed hydroboration of olefins (chiral bidentate P,P and P,N ligands) 05ASC609. 

The hydroboration of olefins is a classic reaction in organic synthesis. - Dialkylbo-ranes add rapidly to alkenes in the absence of catalyst. However, dialkoxyboranes, such as catecholborane and pinacolborane, add more slowly to olefins and alkynes. Thus, transition metal complexes could catalyze the addition of dialkoxyboranes to olefins and alkynes without interference from the background reaction. The potential to alter chemoselectivity, regioselectivity, enantioselectivity, and diastereoselectivity has led a munber of groups to develop metal-catalyzed versions of hydroboration. " Enantioselective hydroboration would alleviate the need to use boranes containing stoichiometric amounts of chiral substituents to generate optically active alkylboranes. 

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. 

A notable example that demonstrates the divergent diastereoselective outcomes that are observed in hydroboration reactions of chiral olefins on treatment either with borane or with sterically demanding borohydrides was documented by Evans in the synthesis of the polyether antibiotic lonomycin A (49, Scheme 7.7) [22]. Thus, hydroboration of 46 with borane afforded the... 

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). 

Prior literature indicated that olefins substituted with chiral sulfoxides could indeed be reduced by hydride or hydrogen with modest stereoselectivity, as summarized in Scheme 5.10. Ogura et al. reported that borane reduction of the unsaturated sulfoxide 42 gave product 43 in 87 13 diastereomer ratio and D20 quench of the borane reduction mixture gave the product 43 deuterated at the a-position to the sulfoxide, consistent with the hydroboration mechanism [10a]. In another paper, Price et al. reported diastereoselective hydrogenation of gem-disubstituted olefin rac-44 to 45 with excellent diastereoselectivity using a rhodium catalyst [10b],... 

The uncatalyzed hydroboration-oxidation of an alkene usually affords the //-Markovnikov product while the catalyzed version can be induced to produce either Markovnikov or /z/z-Markovnikov products. The regioselectivity obtained with a catalyst has been shown to depend on the ligands attached to the metal and also on the steric and electronic properties of the reacting alkene.69 In the case of monosubstituted alkenes (except for vinylarenes), the anti-Markovnikov alcohol is obtained as the major product in either the presence or absence of a metal catalyst. However, the difference is that the metal-catalyzed reaction with catecholborane proceeds to completion within minutes at room temperature, while extended heating at 90 °C is required for the uncatalyzed transformation.60 It should be noted that there is a reversal of regioselectivity from Markovnikov B-H addition in unfunctionalized terminal olefins to the anti-Markovnikov manner in monosubstituted perfluoroalkenes, both in the achiral and chiral versions.70,71... 

Various prochiral olefins are hydroborated by Rh complexes of BINAP or DIOP in up to 96% optical yield (30h, 31). Oxidation of the products provides a convenient way to produce optically active alcohols. Reaction of styrene and catecholborane in the presence of a BINAP-Rh complex at low temperature forms, after oxidative workup, 1-phenylethyl alcohol in 96% ee (Scheme 11) (31). Double stereodifferentiation occurs in the BINAP-Rh catalyzed reaction of 4-methoxy-styrene and an ephedrine-derived chiral borane (32). 

C-E bond formation via hydroalumination, 10, 859 C-E bond formation via hydroboration, 10, 842 olefin cross-metathesis, 11, 195 terminal acetylene silylformylation, 11, 478 Chemspeed automated synthesizer, for high-throughput catalyst preparation, 1, 356 Chini complexes, characteristics, 8, 410 Chiral bisphosphanes, in hydrogenations on DIOP modification, 10, 7... 

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,... 

The conclusion drawn from Section 3.4.1 for the hydroborations to be discussed here is this an addition reaction of an enantiomerically pure chiral reagent to a C=X double bond with enantiotopic faces can take place via two transition states that are dia-stereomorphic and thus generally differing from one another in energy. In agreement with this statement, there are diastereoselective additions of enantiomerically pure mono- or dialkylboranes to C=C double bonds that possess enantiotopic faces. Consequently, when one subsequently oxidizes all C—B bonds to C—OH bonds, one has realized an enantioselective hydration of the respective olefin. 

As mentioned in Section 9.12.2.1.1, the boron-zinc exchange can be performed stereoselectively if diisopropyl-zinc instead of diethylzinc is used. For example, hydroboration of the chiral, racemic endocyclic olefin 134 with diethylzinc, followed by twofold transmetallation and electrophilic capture of the resulting copper intermediate with allyl bromide was used for the highly diastereoselective formation of the stereotriad in product 136 (Scheme 35).35,35a 103 QorreSp0nding enantioselective transformations were carried out with chiral boranes and catalytic amounts of copper salts (see Section 9.12.2.2.2).36... 

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