Metathesis, asymmetric

Alkyne cross metathesis Acyclic diene metathesis Asymmetric ring-closing metathesis Asymmetric ring-opening metathesis Cross metathesis... 

Keywords Alkenes Ruthenium Catalysis Metathesis Asymmetric synthesis Abbreviations... 

Hoveyda and coworkers recently developed sequential catalytic cross metathesis/asymmetric conjugate addition utilizing (4b) to make acyclic aliphatic enones (equation 31)3 Blechert developed a synthetic route toward bicyclic N-heterocycles that hinged on cross metathesis and double reductive amination to access compounds like... 

Application to the synthesis of medicinal compounds Asymmetric Alkene Metathesis Asymmetric Pericyclic Additions to Carbonyl Groups... 

An area in which catalytic olefin metathesis could have a significant impact on future natural product-directed work would be the desymmetrization of achiral molecules through asymmetric RCM (ARCM) or asymmetric ROM... 

The significant potential of the ruthenium complex 65 was further underlined in the catalytic asymmetric ring-opening/cross metathesis of the cyclic alkene 70 (Scheme 44). This transformation is catalyzed by 5% mol of 65 at room temperature, in air, and with undistilled and nondegassed THF to deliver the corresponding diene 71 in 96% ee and 66% isolated yield. In standard conditions (distilled and degassed THF), the alkene 70 reacts in 75 min to give the diene in 95% ee and 76% yield, with only 0.5 mol % of catalyst. 

Satoh T, see Miura M (2005) 14 1-20 Satoh T, see Miura M (2005) 14 55-84 Savoia D (2005) Progress in the Asymmetric Synthesis of 1,2-Diamines from Azomethine Compoimds. 15 1-58 Schmalz HG, Gotov B, Bottcher A (2004) Natmal Product Synthesis. 7 157-180 Schmidt B, Hermanns J (2004) Olefin Metathesis Directed to Organic Synthesis Principles and Applications. 13 223-267... 

Asymmetric AUylic Alkylation acetylacetonate Asymmetric Cross-Metathesis Acyclic Diene Metathesis allyl ether... 

A series of unsymmetric bis(pyrazolylate) ligands have been synthesized and complexed with zinc via metathesis of a thallium derivative, (17) and (18). This allowed the synthesis and complexation of NNS and NNO pyrazolylborate derivatives.1 9,160 Parkin and co-workers synthesized zinc complexes of a series of unsymmetric pyrazole-containing ligands.161-163 The asymmetric bis(pyrazolyl)hydroborato zinc complex has been structurally characterized,164 and will also be discussed in the context of its interaction with the B H hydrogen in Section 6.8.9.2. 

A similar strategy served to carry out the last step of an asymmetric synthesis of the alkaloid (—)-cryptopleurine 12. Compound 331, prepared from the known chiral starting material (l )-( )-4-(tributylstannyl)but-3-en-2-ol, underwent cross-metathesis to 332 in the presence of Grubbs second-generation catalyst. Catalytic hydrogenation of the double bond in 332 with simultaneous N-deprotection, followed by acetate saponification and cyclization under Mitsunobu conditions, gave the piperidine derivative 333, which was transformed into (—)-cryptopleurine by reaction with formaldehyde in the presence of acid (Scheme 73) <2004JOC3144>. 

A second observation was the fact that isomerization of the starting asymmetric olefin was much faster than the formation of new symmetric olefins. In fact, 40% of the initial cis olefin (Fig. 1) had isomerized to trans after only 4% conversion to new olefins. This result formally parallels the highly selective regenerative metathesis of a-olefins (60, 61), except that steric factors now prevail, because electronic effects should be minimal. Finally, the composition of the initially formed butene from r/j-4-methyl-2-pentene was essentially identical to that obtained when cA-2-pentene was used (18). When tra .v-4-methyl-2-pentene was metath-esized (Fig. 2), the composition of the initially formed butenes indicated a rather high trans specificity. 

The tandem use of asymmetric allylboration to give enantiomerically pure ho-moallyHc alcohols followed by cross-metathesis of homoallylic silyl ethers with p-substituted styrenes has been reported [120] (Eq. 19). Exclusively trans cross-coupled products were formed in 50-75% yields. 

Perhaps the most compelling research objective in this area will involve the development of a chiral metathesis catalyst that effects C-C bond formation efficiently and with excellent levels of enantioselectivity [41 ]. In such a case, all the reactions discussed herein, in addition to those expertly developed in other laboratories [40], will become subject to asymmetric catalysis. Such a development should prove to have an enormous impact on the field of inorganic, organome-tallic and synthetic organic chemistry. 

During the past 2 years several research groups have published research that either uses or expands upon Crowe s acyclic cross-metathesis chemistry. The first reported application of this chemistry was in the synthesis of frans-disubstitut-ed homoallylic alcohols [30]. Cross-metathesis of styrenes with homoallylic silyl ethers 15, prepared via asymmetric allylboration and subsequent alcohol protection, gave the desired trans cross-metathesis products in moderate to good yields (Eq. 15). 

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