Intramolecular reaction asymmetric hydrosilylation

Until 1968, not a single nonenzymic catalytic asymmetric synthesis had been achieved with a yield above 50%. Now, barely 15 years later, no fewer than six types of reactions can be carried out with yields of 75-100% using amino acid catalysts, i.e., catalytic hydrogenation, intramolecular aldol cyclizations, cyanhydrin synthesis, alkylation of carbonyl compounds, hydrosilylation, and epoxidations. 

Cationic Rh(I) catalysts containing (/ ,/ )-i-Pr-DuPHOS promote asymmetric intramolecular hydrosilylation of certain a-siloxy ketones with high selectivity (Scheme 8) (25). Reaction of 4-dimethylsiloxy-2-butanone produces an (/ )-l,3-[Pg.74]

Intramolecular hydrosilylation of siloxy acetone 55 catalyzed by a cationic Rh complex with DuPHOS-i-Pr (56), [Rh(COD)(DuPHOS-i-Pr)]OTf, to give the corresponding cyclic silyl ether with 93% ee (5) [42]. The product was converted to 1,2-diol 57, which can also be prepared by asymmetric dihydroxylation of propene. In the same reaction, the use of BINAP 58 gave only... 

Asymmetric intramolecular hydrosilylation of a-dimethylsiloxyketones (216), which are prepared from a-hydroxyketones 215, catalyzed by [(S ,S )-R-DuPHOS)Rh(COD)]+CF3 SO3-, (219) proceeds smoothly at 20-25 °C to give siladioxolanes 217. Desilylation of 217 affords 1,2-diols 218 with 65-93% ee in good yields (Scheme 22)231. The best result (93% ee) is obtained for the reaction of a-hydroxyacetone using (S, S)-i-Pr-DuPHOS-Rh+ as the catalyst. The same reactions using (S ,S )-Chiraphos and (S)-binap give 218 (R = Me) with 46 and 20% ee, respectively. 

Catalytic asymmetric intramolecular hydrosilylation of dialkyl- and diarylsilyl ethers of bis(2-propenyl)methanol (245) catalyzed by (R, R)-DIOP-Rh or (R)-binap-Rh complex, followed by Tamao oxidation, gives (2S, 3R)-2-methyl-4-pentene-l,3-diol (247) with 71-93% ee and excellent syn selectivity (syn/anti = 95/5- > 99/1) (equation 96)249. The enantioselectivity of this reaction depends on the bulkiness of the silyl moiety, i.e. the bulkier the substituent, the higher is the enantiopurity of the product, except for the case of 2-MeCgH4 R = Me, 80% ee (binap-Rh) R = Ph, 83% ee (DIOP-Rh) R = 2-McC.fiI I4, 4% ee (DIOP-Rh) R = 3-MeC6H4, 87% ee (DIOP-Rh) R = 3,5-Me2C6H3, 93% ee (DIOP-Rh). This methodology is successfully applied to the asymmetric synthesis of versatile poly oxygenated synthetic intermediate 249 (equation 97)249. 

As pointed out in the introduction, a particular feature of hydrosilylation reactions is that they require catalysis. Arguably the most valuable of enantioselective synthetic methods are those in which asymmetric induction occurs from small quantities of enantiomerically pure catalysts. It is natural, therefore, that considerable effort has been directed towards the catalytic enantioselective hydrosilylation-oxidation of C —C double bonds. Some degree of success has been met in the hydrosilylation of simple alkenes and 1,3-dienes, and in intramolecular hydrosilyla-tions. Also, as discussed at end of this section, a catalytic enantioselective disilylation (effectively the same as a hydrosilylation) has been developed for a,)3-unsaturated ketones. 

The transition metal-catalyzed asymmetric intramolecular hydrosilylation has also been studied (124). Of particular interest is its application to catalytic asymmetric synthesis (125-129). For example, the reaction of 3-oxasilapenta-1,4-diene 147 catalyzed by (i )-BINAP-Rh complex gives siloxacylopentane 148 with high enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity, which was confirmed by conversion to diol 149 via the Tamao oxidation (Scheme 69) (125,126). 

Asymmetric catalysis Initial attempts to develop non-racemic catalysts for the enantioselective hydrosilylation of alkenes have not been successful with C2-symmetric (5)-Ph-pybox and p-diketiminate calcium amide complexes catalyzing the addition of phenylsilane to styrene in the absence of solvent at 50 °C in, at best, 9 % e.e [69]. As with intramolecular hydroaminatiOTi catalysis, these results have been explained in terms of the loss of ligand control due to facile ligand redistribution reactions under the catalytic reaction conditions. 

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