Ligand accelerated asymmetric

Asymmetric syntheses can be carried out even more easily and elegantly than by reacting achiral substrates with enantiomerically pure chiral reagents if one allows the substrate to react with an enantiomerically pure species formed in situ from an achiral reagent and an enantiomerically pure chiral additive. The exclusive reaction of this species on the substrate implies that the reagent itself reacts substantially slower with the substrate than its adduct with the chiral additive. If high stereoselectivity is observed, it is exclusively due to the presence of the additive. The chiral additive speeds up the reaction. This is an example of ligand accelerated asymmetric catalysis. 

The Sharpless procedure for effecting osmium-catalyzed ligand-accelerated asymmetric dihydroxylation was utilized successfully the reaction could also be scaled up. Bis(3-methylthien-2-yl) ketone (59) was also a product in these reactions and was accompanied by an impurity whose structure has not been elucidated. Optimum yields of the dihydroxy material were obtained in dioxane-water/t-butanol-water mixtures. Use of osmium tetroxide instead of potassium osmate led to a slower reaction and increased the formation of undesired products. The material derived from synthesis revealed complete identity with the tablet degradates Any diastereomers that formed were not resolved under our chromatographic conditions. Attempted functionalization of the vicinal dihydroxy groups (acetate, acetonide, trflate) was unsuccessful and led to complex mixtures of products. 

Some researchers analyzed the possibility of using complexes with modified poly(ethylene glycol)s in the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation. The application of alkaloid-modified monomethyl ethers of poly(ethylene oxide)s 33-36 in osmium tetroxide-catalyzed ligand-accelerated asymmetric dihydroxylation ensures considerable enantioselectivity and much higher activity [70]. 

As to most chiral atropisomeric ligand, resolution or asymmetric synthesis is requisite. Mikami developed a novel ligand-accelerated catalyst. The chirality of atropos, but achiral triphos ligand-Ru complex, can be controlled by chiral diamines. Using ( -dm-dabn as controller, the single diastereomeric triphos-Ru complex was achieved through isomerization of (i )-triphos-Ru complex in dichloroethane at 80 °G (Scheme l).44... 

Yang12 has effected an intramolecular asymmetric carbonyl-ene reaction between an alkene and an a-keto ester. Reaction optimization studies were performed by changing the Lewis acid, solvent, and chiral ligand. Ligand-accelerated catalysis was observed for Sc(OTf)3, Cu(OTf)2, and Zn(OTf)2 (Equation (6)). The resulting optically active m-l-hydroxyl-2-allyl esters provide an entry into multiple natural products. 

A further advantage of this ligand-accelerated reaction is that a directing functional group is not essential for enantioselectivity, as in asymmetric epoxidation and hydrogenation. Even simple alkenes are converted into diols in 20-88% ee... 

About a decade after the discovery of the asymmetric epoxidation described in Chapter 14.2, another exciting discovery was reported from the laboratories of Sharpless, namely the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes using osmium tetroxide. Osmium tetroxide in water by itself will slowly convert alkenes into 1,2-diols, but as discovered by Criegee [15] and pointed out by Sharpless, an amine ligand accelerates the reaction (Ligand-Accelerated Catalysis [16]), and if the amine is chiral an enantioselectivity may be brought about. 

In asymmetric catalysis, Sharpless emphasized the importance of ligand-accelerated catalysis through the construction of an asymmetric catalyst from an achiral precatalyst via ligand exchange with a chiral ligand. By contrast, a dynamic combinatorial approach, where an achiral precatalyst combined with several multicomponent chiral ligands (L, -----) and several chiral activator ligands... 

Recently, the intramolecular nitrile oxide-alkene cycloaddition sequence was used to prepare spiro- w(isoxazolines), which are considered useful as chiral ligands for asymmetric synthesis (321). Reaction of the dibutenyl-dioxime (164) (derived from the diester 163) with sodium hypochlorite afforded a mixture of diastereomeric isoxazolines 165-167 in 74% combined yield (Scheme 6.80) (321). It was discovered that a catalytic amount of the Cu(II) complex 165-Cu(acac)2, where acac = acetylacetonate, significantly accelerated the reaction of diisopropylzinc... 

Organometallic compounds asymmetric catalysis, 11, 255 chiral auxiliaries, 266 enantioselectivity, 255 see also specific compounds Organozinc chemistry, 260 amino alcohols, 261, 355 chirality amplification, 273 efficiency origins, 273 ligand acceleration, 260 molecular structures, 276 reaction mechanism, 269 transition state models, 264 turnover-limiting step, 271 Orthohydroxylation, naphthol, 230 Osmium, olefin dihydroxylation, 150 Oxametallacycle intermediates, 150, 152 Oxazaborolidines, 134 Oxazoline, 356 Oxidation amines, 155 olefins, 137, 150 reduction, 5 sulfides, 155 Oxidative addition, 5 amine isomerization, 111 hydrogen molecule, 16 Oxidative dimerization, chiral phenols, 287 Oximes, borane reduction, 135 Oxindole alkylation, 338 Oxiranes, enantioselective synthesis, 137, 289, 326, 333, 349, 361 Oxonium polymerization, 332 Oxo process, 162 Oxovanadium complexes, 220 Oxygenation, C—H bonds, 149... 

The ligand acceleration is particularly useful in catalysis with chiral ligands. Here, this phenomenon helps a stereoselective reaction mode to dominate over competing unselective pathways, leading to a highly efficient asymmetric catalysis. 

Han H, Janda KD, Soluble polymer-bound ligand-accelerated catalysis Asymmetric dihydroxylation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118 7632-7633, 1996. 

Keywords Asymmetric dihydroxylation, Osmium tetroxide, Cinchona alkaloid, Ligand-accelerated catalysis, Immobilization... 

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