Hydrosilylation imines

Figure 6-9. Effect of added amine on imine hydrosilylation.

Lanthanide(ll)-imine complexes, obtained by reduction of aromatic ketimines with samarium and ytterbium metal, effectively catalyze the hydrosilylation of imines. The proposed catalytic cycle for the imine hydrosilylation is outlined in Scheme 279.961 1033... 

The titanium complexes bearing <9-phosphinophenoxo ligands shown in Scheme 380 are prepared by metallation of the corresponding phenol followed by reaction with CpTiCl3. The complexes were found to be fluxional by H NMR analysis at low temperature. The X-ray structure shows that in the solid state the molecule is chiral at the metal center. These complexes are effective catalysts for olefin hydrogenation and imine hydrosilylation.911... 

Reding MT, Buchwald SL (2008) Short enantioselective total syntheses of the piperidine alkaloids (S)-coniine and (2/f,6/f)-tram -solenopsin A via catalytic asymmetric imine hydrosilylation. Chem Res Toxicol 21 2061-2064... 

An A-pivaloyl-L-prolineanilide promotes high-yield imine hydrosilylation by HSiCl3 with up to 93% ee. a-Deuterated amines have been formed with up to 99% ee by chi- Q ral phosphoric-acid-catalysed enantioselective transfer of deutaium from 2-deuterated benzothiazoline to ketimines the isotope effect suggests that C—D bond cleavage is rate determining. 0... 

The discussion of the activation of bonds containing a group 15 element is continued in chapter five. D.K. Wicht and D.S. Glueck discuss the addition of phosphines, R2P-H, phosphites, (R0)2P(=0)H, and phosphine oxides R2P(=0)H to unsaturated substrates. Although the addition of P-H bonds can be sometimes achieved directly, the transition metal-catalyzed reaction is usually faster and may proceed with a different stereochemistry. As in hydrosilylations, palladium and platinum complexes are frequently employed as catalyst precursors for P-H additions to unsaturated hydrocarbons, but (chiral) lanthanide complexes were used with great success for the (enantioselective) addition to heteropolar double bond systems, such as aldehydes and imines whereby pharmaceutically valuable a-hydroxy or a-amino phosphonates were obtained efficiently. 

Asymmetric hydrosilylation of the cyclic imine 17 (Approach A) was precedented on simpler substrates by Buchwald but the method requires an expensive and highly air-sensitive chiral htanocene catalyst (Scheme 8.5) [6]. 

While it is beyond the scope of this chapter to cover the asymmetric hydrosilylation of ketones and imines in any detail, a number of the more catalytically active ML combinations will be mentioned here. A full review of the area has recently appeared.138 Asymmetric hydrosilylation of carbonyl groups is usually performed with rhodium or titanium catalysts bearing chelating N- or P-based ligands. Representative results for some of the most active Rh/L combinations (Scheme 32) for addition of Si H to acetophenone are given in Table 11. 

Among titanium compounds, many sit on the border of being organometallic/coordination compounds. One which is of interest in relation to the enhancing effects of F (see Section 9.5.5.2) is the titanium fluoride complex (52), which is highly active for the hydrosilylation of imines (Scheme 33).143... 

The hydrosilylation- hydrolysis route is also effective for reduction of imines ( C=N—) to amines (see also Section III,A,4). The RhCl(PPh3)3... 

As outlined in Section II,E, ketone and imine groups are readily hydrogenated via a hydrosilylation-hydrolysis procedure. Use of chiral catalysts with prochiral substrates, for example, R,R2C=0 or R,R2C=N— leads to asymmetric hydrosilylation (284, 285 Chapter 9 in this volume) and hence optically active alcohols [cf. Eq. (41)]. 

Beyond palladium, it has recently been shown that isoelectronic metal complexes based on nickel and platinum are active catalysts for diyne reductive cyclization. While the stoichiometric reaction of nickel(O) complexes with non-conjugated diynes represents a robust area of research,8 only one example of nickel-catalyzed diyne reductive cyclization, which involves the hydrosilylative cyclization of 1,7-diynes to afford 1,2-dialkylidenecyclohexanes appears in the literature.7 The reductive cyclization of unsubstituted 1,7-diyne 53a illustrates the ability of this catalyst system to deliver cyclic Z-vinylsilanes in good yield with excellent control of alkene geometry. Cationic platinum catalysts, generated in situ from (phen)Pt(Me)2 and B(C6F5)3, are also excellent catalysts for highly Z-selective reductive cyclization of 1,6-diynes, as demonstrated by the cyclization of 1,6-diyne 54a.72 The related platinum bis(imine) complex [PhN=C(Me)C(Me)N=Ph]2Pt(Me)2 also catalyzes diyne hydrosilylation-cyclization (Scheme 35).72a... 

Preparation of enantiomerically pare secondary amines by catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation or hydrosilylation of imines is as important as the preparation of alcohols from ketones. However, asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral ON double bonds has received relatively less attention despite the obvious preparative potential of this process.98... 

Several successful results have been obtained in the asymmetric hydrogenation and asymmetric hydrosilylation of imines.101 An efficient enantioselective hydrogenation of the ON double bond was developed by Burk and Feast-er,101a who used [ R h (CO D) (D u P h o s) ] C Fi SO3 in the hydrogenation of N-aroylhydrazone 98. 

Hydrosilylation of imine compounds was also an efficient method to prepare amines. The hydrosilylation product TV-silylamines can readily be desilylated upon methanol or water treatment, yielding the corresponding amines. The amines can be converted to their corresponding amides by subsequent acyl anhydride treatment. The first attempt to hydrogenate prochiral imines with Rh(I) chiral phosphine catalysts was made by Kagan102 and others. These catalysts exhibited low catalytic activity, and only moderate ee was obtained. 

Particularly noteworthy is the discovery of a new type of the active catalyst 99,103,104 a crystalline, air-stable yellow-orange solid, which can serve as a highly enantioselective tool in the titanium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of imines. The reaction can be highly stereoselective for both acyclic and cyclic imines under a wide range of hydrogen pressures (Scheme 6-46). 

Treatment of this precatalyst with phenylsilane yields a very active catalytic system that can be used for the hydrosilylation of imines. This discovery was initiated by the observed hydrosilylation of imines when phenylsilane was added to Cp2TiF2. It was presumed that it might be possible to break the strong... 

Scheme 6-46. Titanocene-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of imines.

Ti-F bond and generate a Ti-H species when 99 was treated with phenylsilane. The chirality transfer may take place through imine insertion into the Ti-H bond, similar to that in the catalytic hydrogenation process.1000 The reaction can be carried out by the subsequent addition of imines. The corresponding silylated amines can be obtained and further converted to enantiomerically enriched amines upon acid treatment. For example, in the presence of 99, N-methylimine 100 undergoes complete hydrosilylation within 12 hours at room temperature, with 97% ee and up to 5000 turnovers.103... 

Micro)titer plate and indicator (dye, fluorescent, etc.) 1. Catalytic electrooxidation of methanol + pH indicator3 2. Catalytic hydrosilylation of alkenes and imines + dyeb... 

Iridium complexes are known to be generally less active in hydrosilylation reactions when compared to rhodium derivatives, although iridium-based catalysts with bonded chiral carbene ligands have been used successfully in the synthesis of chiral alcohols and amines via hydrosilylation/protodesilylation of ketones [46-52] and imines [53-55], The iridium-catalyzed reaction of acetophenone derivatives with organosubstituted silanes often gives two products (Equation 14.3) ... 

As mentioned above, iridium complexes are also active in the formation of amines via the hydrosilylation/protodesUylation of imines. In the presence of 2 equiv. of HSiEts, the cationic complex [lr bis(pyrazol-l-yl)methane (CO)2][BPh4] (C4) catalyzes the reduction of various imines, including N-alkyl and N-aryl imines and both aldimines and ketimmes. Excellent conversions directly to the amine products were achieved rapidly at room temperature in a methanol solution (Scheme 14.7) [53]. 

Chiral oxazolinylphosphines were used as effective ligands for the iridium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of imines to afford the corresponding sec-amines with high enantioselectivities (up to 89% ee) after hydrolysis in almost quantitative yields (Equation 14.6) [55]. The following derivatives as efficient ligands were used (see also Table 14.4) ... 

Hosomi et al. reported an unprecedented hydrosilylation of ketones and imines displaying remarkable chemoselectivity that enabled ketones to be differentiated from aldehydes. Although the active species were not dear, they accepted that monomeric gold complexes stabilized by excess of tributylphosphine played a crucial role in controlling the reaction [190] (Scheme 8.30). 

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