Ketones enantioselective allylation

The majority of catalytic enantioselective allylation reactions involve the chiral Lewis-acid-catalysed additions of allylsilanes or allylstannanes to carbonyl compounds. Monothiobinaphthol has been used by Woodward et al. as a chiral promoter in the enantioselective catalytic allylation of aryl ketones with impure Sn(allyl)4, prepared from allyl chloride, air-oxidised magnesium and SnCl4. Therefore, the allylation of arylketones in these conditions was achieved very efficiently, since the corresponding allylic alcohols were formed in... 

The crystal structure of (232) is reported. Ir complexes bound to the multidentate ligand as in (232) have proved successful in the enantioselective reduction of a,/3-unsaturated ketones to allylic alcohols.404... 

Enantioselective allylations of a-nitro ketones and a-nitro esters with allyl acetates are carried out in the presence of 2 equiv of alkali metal fluorides (KF, RbF, CsF) and 1 mol% palladium catalysts prepared in situ from Pd2(dba)3-CHC13 and chiral phosphine ligands. Moderate enantio-selectivity (ca 50% ee) is reported for allylation of cx-nitroketones (Eq. 5.60). The highest selectivity (80% ee) is observed for allylation of the reaction of tert-butyl ester (Eq. 5.61).93... 

As practiced in the preceding syntheses by Evans and Nishiyama and Yamamura, the A-ring fragment 43 is formed through substrate-directed vinylogous aldol reaction of the Brassard-type diene 19 and the chiral aldehyde 42, which is prepared using Brown s protocols for enantioselective allylation [53], followed by hydroxy-directed nnn-diastereoselective reduction of the C3 ketone (Me4NB(OAc)3H) [41],... 

Trost and his co-workers succeeded in the allylic alkylation of prochiral carbon-centered nucleophiles in the presence of Trost s ligand 118 and obtained the corresponding allylated compounds with an excellent enantioselec-tivity. A variety of prochiral carbon-centered nucleophiles such as / -keto esters, a-substituted ketones, and 3-aryl oxindoles are available for this asymmetric reaction (Scheme jg) Il3,ll3a-ll3g Q jjg recently, highly enantioselective allylation of acyclic ketones such as acetophenone derivatives has been reported by Hou and his co-workers, Trost and and Stoltz and Behenna - (Scheme 18-1). On the other hand, Ito and Kuwano... 

Benzamido-cinnamic acid, 20, 38, 353 Benzofuran polymerization, 181 Benzoin condensation, 326 Benzomorphans, 37 Benzycinchoninium bromide, 334 Benzycinchoninium chloride, 334, 338 Bifiinctional catalysts, 328 Bifiinctional ketones, enantioselectivity, 66 BINAP allylation, 194 allylic alcohols, 46 axial chirality, 18 complex catalysts, 47 cyclic substrates, 115, 117 double hydrogenation, 72 Heck reaction, 191 hydrogen incorporation, 51 hydrogen shift, 100 hydrogenation, 18, 28, 57, 309 hydrosilylation, 126 inclusion complexes, oxides, 97 ligands, 19, 105 molecular structure, 50, 115 mono- and bis-complexes, 106 NMR spectra, 105 olefin isomerization, 96... 

Chiral BINOL-indium(ni) complexes have been employed in several enantioselective allylations (i) in the ionic liquid, hexylmethylimidazolium-PF6, for aldehydes,190 (ii) a moisture tolerant version, for a wide variety of aldehyde types,191 and (iii) a recyclable example, useful for aromatic, aliphatic, and a,/S-unsaturated ketones.192... 

Jorgensen et al. reported that C2-symmetric bis(oxazoline)-copper(II) complex 25 also acts as chiral Lewis acid catalyst for a reaction of allylic stannane with ethyl glyoxylate [37]. Meanwhile, p-Tol-BINAP-CuCl complex 26 was shown to be a promising chiral catalyst for a catalytic enantioselective allylation of ketones with allyltrimethoxysilane under the influence of the TBAT catalyst [38]. Evans and coworkers have developed (S,S)-Ph-pybox-Sc(OTf)3 complex 27 as a new chiral Lewis acid catalyst and shown that this scandium catalyst promotes enantioselective addition reactions of allenyltrimethylsilanes to ethyl glyoxylate [39]. But, when the silicon substituents become bulkier, nonracemic dihydrofurans are predominantly obtained as products of [3+2] cycloaddition. 

Chiral Bronsted acids can also promote the asymmetric addition of allylic tin reagents to carbonyl compounds. Baba and coworkers have found that a stoichiometric amount of (fl)-BINOL (37) acts a chiral promoter for the allylation of unactivated ketones with tetraallyltin and in the presence of MeOH, the corresponding nonracemic tertiary homoallylic alcohols are obtained with up to 60% ee [50]. Later, Woodward et al. improved this process and achieved a catalytic enantioselective allylation of aryl ketones by employing (fl)-monothio-binaphthol 36 as a chiral Bronsted catalyst [49]. For instance, in the presence of 20 mol% of the chiral acid 36 and 40 mol% of H20 in toluene, acetophenone (42) was allylated by a 0.7 0.3 mixture of tetraallyltin (41) and butyltriallylltin (55) to give the (jR)-enriched allylated product 56 almost quantitatively with 89-86% ee (Scheme 8). 

Several methods promoted by a stoichiometric amount of chiral Lewis acid 38 [51] or chiral Lewis bases 39 [52, 53] and 40 [53] have been developed for enantioselective indium-mediated allylation of aldehydes and ketones by the Loh group. A combination of a chiral trimethylsilyl ether derived from norpseu-doephedrine and allyltrimethylsilane is also convenient for synthesis of enan-tiopure homoallylic alcohols from ketones [54,55]. Asymmetric carbonyl addition by chirally modified allylic metal reagents, to which chiral auxiliaries are covalently bonded, is also an efficient method to obtain enantiomerically enriched homoallylic alcohols and various excellent chiral allylating agents have been developed for example, (lS,2S)-pseudoephedrine- and (lF,2F)-cyclohex-ane-1,2-diamine-derived allylsilanes [56], polymer-supported chiral allylboron reagents [57], and a bisoxazoline-modified chiral allylzinc reagent [58]. An al-lyl transfer reaction from a chiral crotyl donor opened a way to highly enantioselective and a-selective crotylation of aldehydes [59-62]. Enzymatic routes to enantioselective allylation of carbonyl compounds have still not appeared. 

Oxocarbenium ions bearing a chiral auxiliary are useful for asymmetric allylation with 10. For example, oxocarbenium ions generated from aldehydes and homochiral Me3Si ether 15 are allylated with high diastereoselectivity (Scheme 104,104a,104b rp e resultant homoallyl ethers can easily be converted into homoallyl alcohols without epimerization. This two-step procedure is applicable to enantioselective allylation of ketones.105,1053... 

Homochiral strained allylsilacycles 24 are valuable for uncatalyzed enantioselective allylation of (V-acy I hydrazones derived from aldehydes and ketones (Equation (32)).133,133a The crotylation using 24b and 24c occurs in the same stereospecific manner as observed in the DMF-promoted crotylation using crotyltrichlorosilanes. A cyclic transition state similar to 22 is reasonable also in the allylation using 24. 

Chiral Ligand of LiAlH4 for the Enantioselective Reduction of a,p-Unsaturated Ketones. Enantioselective reductions of a,p-unsaturated ketones afford optically active ally lie alcohols which are useful intermediates in natural product synthesis. Enantioselective reduction of a,p-unsaturated ketones with LiAlH4 modified with chiral amino alcohol (1) affords optically active (S)-allylic alcohols with high ee s. When 2-cyclohexen-l-one is employed, (5)-2-cyclohexen-l-ol with 100% ee is obtained in 95% yield (eq 2). This is comparable with the results obtained using LiAlH4-chiral binaphthol and chiral 1,3,2-oxazaborolidine. ... 

Kii, S., Maruoka, K. Catalytic enantioselective allylation of ketones with novel chiral bis-titanium(IV) catalyst. Chirality 2003,15, 68-70. 

Allylation of ketones is a fundamental and important transformation, and therefore, efficient catalysts promoting addition of allylstannanes to ketones have been investigated [89]. Enantioselective allylation of ketones is a very challenging topic. It has been disclosed that asymmetric allylation of ketones with allylstannanes was promoted by addition of BINOL/TiCl2(OiPr)2 catalyst [90] or by premixing of BINOL with tetraallyltin [91]. In these reactions, however, enantioselectivity was not sufficient for practical purposes (acetophenone <65% ee). It was recently discovered that acetophenone was allylated by a mixture of tetraallyltin and an alkyl-triallyltin in the presence of monothiobinaphthol to furnish the desired chiral homoallyl alcohol with high enantioselectivity (Scheme 12.35) [92]. 

Enantioselective allylations of prostereogenic enolates have been attempted using catalytic amounts of a palladium complex incorporating (5,5)-Diop as the chiral ligand. The reactions of ketone zinc enolate 2 with allyl chloride 17 and of the sodium enolate derived from aldehyde 5 with phenyl ether 423 yield 3 and 6 of low enantiomeric excess, respectively. 

Scheme 7.38 Enantioselective allylation of ketone 64 using pol5maer-supported BINOL ligand 66.

Recent reviews include catalytic enantioselective aUylation of carbonyl compounds and imines (224 referencesand enantioselective allylation of aldehydes, ketones, aldimines, and ketimines. (g)... 

As a final set of examples, enantioselective allylic substitution of unstabilized eno-lates to form a new stereocenter at the enolate carbon have been developed through the decarboxylative reactions of allyl enol carbonates. - - These reactions are enantioselective versions of reactions closely related to those in Equation 20.18 and Scheme 20.4, and two examples are shown in Equations 20.60 and 20.61. In these cases, a new stereocenter is formed at the a-carbon of the enolate nucleophile. Most of these reactions have been conducted with allyl enol carbonates that generate cyclic ketone enolates, but enantioselective reactions of acyclic allyl enol carbonates have also been reported. Although allyl enol carbonates undergo decarboxylation faster than the 3-keto ester isomers, the 0-allyl p-keto esters are more difficult to prepare, and enantioselective allylations starting with p-ketoesters have been reported. - Decarboxylative reactions of amines and a-amino acids have been conducted to form allylic and homoallylic amines (Equation 20.62), respectively, and enantioselective decarboxylative allylations of amides have been reportedIridium-catalyzed enantioselective decarboxylative allylation of amides starting with 0-allyl imides has also been reported. ... 

Ir -aUyl complexes can also act as nucleophiles in additing to various electrophiles such as aldehydes, ketones, or imines. Krische et al. [143d] have developed a broad new family of enantioselective allylations via hydrogenations and transfer... 

More recently, the Pd-catalyzed allylation of enamines and imines has been applied to the enantioselective a-allylation of aldehydes and ketones in ee values up to Until several years ago, the results obtained in this investigation represented some of the most favorable cases of the Pd-catalyzed enantioselective allylation. Several representative results are summarized in Scheme 17 U8H40] p j. (jjg pd-catalyzed allylation of 2-phenylpropionaldehyde with (5)-proline allyl ester, a mechanism involving an organopaUadium complex shown in Scheme 18 has been proposed, and it does appear very plausible. 

After it was demonstrated by the contributions of several research groups that the hard enolates of ketones are susceptible to the palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation, it was an obvious idea to investigate amide enolates next, as they are equally stable. Thus, Hou and coworkers reported that the lithium enolates of tertiary amides 32 undergo in the presence of hthium chloride enantioselective allylic alkylation with allyl or methallyl acetate 33. The reaction was mediated by the ferrocene-based ligand 34, and the enantiomeric excess of the products 35 was found to range from 73 to 93% ee. The absolute configuration was determined in two cases (for = Me, Et, = H) to be R) (Scheme 5.12) [21]. An allylation... 

Scheme 5.13 Rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective allylation of lithium enolates derived from a-oxy-substituted ketones 36.

The protocols for the utilization of ketone-derived silyl enol ethers in Tsuji-Trost reactions were preceded by a report of Morimoto and coworkers on the enantioselective allylation of sUyl ketene acetals 88. Without external activation, they reacted with the allylic substrate 19d in the presence of the palladium complex derived from the amidine ligand 89 to give y,5-unsaturated esters 90 in moderate chemical yield but high enantiomeric excess (Scheme 5.29) [46]. Presumably, the pivalate anion hberated during the oxidative addition functions as an activator of the silyl ketene acetal. The protocol is remarkable in view of the fact that asymmetric allylic alkylations of carboxylic esters are rare. Interestingly, the asymmetric induction originates from a ligand with an uncomplicated structure. The protocol seems however rather restricted with respect to the substitution pattern of allylic component and sUyl ketene acetal. 

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