Lewis polymer-supported

Keywords acrylates, acrylamides, fumarates, a, -unsaturated ketones, vinyl ethers, vinyl sulphoxides, chiral dienophiles, chiral dienes, chiral catalysts polymer-supported chiral Lewis acids... 

A more versatile method to use organic polymers in enantioselective catalysis is to employ these as catalytic supports for chiral ligands. This approach has been primarily applied in reactions as asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral alkenes, asymmetric reduction of ketone and 1,2-additions to carbonyl groups. Later work has included additional studies dealing with Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions, asymmetric epoxidation, and asymmetric dihydroxylation reactions. Enantioselective catalysis using polymer-supported catalysts is covered rather recently in a review by Bergbreiter [257],... 

Shibasaki et al. developed a polymer-supported bifunctional catalyst (33) in which aluminum was complexed to a chiral binaphtyl derivative containing also two Lewis basic phosphine oxide-functionahties. The binaphtyl unit was attached via a non-coordinating alkenyl Hnker to the Janda Jel-polymer, a polystyrene resin containing flexible tetrahydrofuran-derived cross-Hnkers and showing better swelling properties than Merifield resins (Scheme 4.19) [105]. Catalyst (33) was employed in the enantioselective Strecker-type synthesis of imines with TMSCN. 

In a first series of trials, trimethylsUyl cyanide (TMSCN) was used as the cyanide source and polymer-supported (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) ruthenium(lll) chloride as the Lewis acid catalyst (Scheme 23). After the optimisation of the conditions on a model reaction, a small library of compounds was produced, proving the concept by obtaining 100% yields in 2.5 h reaction time. Using flow rates of... 

Lewis acid (Yb-(III)-reagent supported on Amberlyst 15) in combination with polymer-supported urea scavenging resins (Amberlyst 15 and Ambersep 900 OH) permits a rapid parallel Biginelli synthesis with a simple and efficient purification strategy [126]. 

Solid-phase synthesis is of importance in combinatorial chemistry. As already mentioned RuH2(PPh3)4 catalyst can be used as an alternative to the conventional Lewis acid or base catalyst. When one uses polymer-supported cyanoacetate 37, which can be readily obtained from the commercially available polystyrene Wang resin and cyanoacetic acid, the ruthenium-catalyzed Knoevenagel and Michael reactions can be performed successively [27]. The effectiveness of this reaction is demonstrated by the sequential four-component reaction on solid phase as shown in Scheme 11 [27]. The ruthenium-catalyzed condensation of 37 with propanal and subsequent addition of diethyl malonate and methyl vinyl ketone in TH F at 50 °C gave the adduct 40 diastereoselectively in 40 % yield (de= 90 10). 

A polymer-supported allyltin derivative was also reported to undergo a Lewis-acid-catalysed addition to benzaldehydes to give products such as l-phenylbut-3-en-l-ol and 1 -(p-bromophenyl)but-3-en-1 -ol154. 

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. 

Enholm [12] has also prepared an enantiomerically pure soluble polymer support 82 by couphng xylose-derived chiral auxiliary 81 with 77 (Scheme 18). The chiral support was then treated with bromopropionic acid 83 to give substrate 84. Eree radical allyl transfer from allyltributyltin imder thermal conditions provided 85 in 93% yield, and basic cleavage from the resin gave (R)-(-)-2-methylpent-4-enoic acid 86 in 80% yield and 97% ee, with a 92% yield of recovered 82. Previous studies of the same process in solution had found the addition of Lewis acids to be crucial for high selectivities to be obtained. Interestingly, the addition of Lewis acids to the reaction on polymer support led to cleavage of the carbohydrate from the polymer backbone. En-... 

Enholm [26] has reported the first examples of asymmetric radical cy-clizations on soluble polymer supports. The stereocontrol element employed consists of a (+)-isosorbide group attached by a 4-carbon chain to each subunit of a soluble succinimide-derived ROMP backbone. Treatment of the radical cychzation substrate 162 with tributyltin hydride in the presence of zinc chloride followed by hydrolysis of the resulting polymer-supported ester 163 gave the desired product 164 in 80% yield and > 90% ee (Scheme 38). The use of alternative Lewis acids, such as magnesium bromide etherate and ytterbiiun (III) triflate, resulted in lower enantioselectivities, 84% and 72% respectively. No such decrease in selectivity was observed in analogous reactions carried out off-support [27], suggesting that the polymer backbone is somehow responsible for this phenomenon. 

Itsuno et al. explored the possibility of using polymer-supported chiral Lewis acids in a model Diels-Alder reaction of methacrolein with cyclopentadiene [23a]. By using an insoluble polymer-supported Lewis acid [23], prepared from borane with cross-linked polymers with a chiral moiety such as an A-sulfonylamino acid, the Diels-Alder adduct is obtained in good yield with almost perfect exo selectivity and moderate enantioselectivity (Eq. 23). 

Although Lewis acids are very useful in many organic reactions, they do have certain drawbacks. For example, AICI3 decomposes when exposed to moisture, tends to dimerize when dissolved, and often forms a suspension of Al(OH)3 during reaction work-up. Polymer-supported versions of metal Lewis acids have become important. If... 

Another approach to the preparation of polymer-supported metal Lewis acids is based on polymerization of functional monomers. If synthesis of the functional monomer is not difficult, polymerization should afford structurally pure functional polymers, because the polymer formed requires no further complicated chemical modification. A variety of substituted styrene monomers are now commercially available styrene monomers with an appropriate ligand structure can be prepared from these. Several other interesting functional monomers such as glycidyl methacrylate, 2-hydr-oxyethyl methacrylate, and other acrylics have also been used extensively to prepare functional polymers. 

In this chapter recent developments in the use of polymer-supported metal Lewis acids in organic synthesis will be discussed. Although most consist of crosslinked polystyrene-based supports, other organic polymers and inorganic supports are included as support materials. 

Aluminum chloride and its derivatives are the most familiar Lewis acids and are routinely employed in many Lewis acid-promoted synthetic transformations. The first polymer-supported metal Lewis acids to be studied were polymers attached by weak chemical or physical interactions to a Lewis acid. In the 1970s Neckers and coworkers reported the use of styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer-supported AlCl,- or BF3 as catalyst in condensations, esterifications, and acetalization of alcohols [11,12]. This type of polymer-supported AICI3 (1) is readily prepared by impregnation of a polystyrene resin with AICI3 in a suitable solvent. Subsequent removal of the solvent leaves a tightly bound complex of the resin and AICI3. The hydrophobic nature of polystyrene protects the moisture-sensitive Lewis acid from hydrolysis, and in this form the Lewis acid is considerably less sensitive to deactivation by hydrolysis. This polymer complex could be used as a mild Lewis acid catalyst for condensation of relatively acid-sensitive dicyclopropylcarbinol to an ether (Eq. 1) [13],... 

Other important titanium alkoxide-based Lewis acids are Ti-TADDOLate (a,a,a, a -tetraaryl-l,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanol)ates, among the most effective chiral catalysts for several important asymmetric reactions. These will be discussed in the sections on polymer-supported Diels-Alder reactions (Section 21.10) and alkylations (Section 21.9). 

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