Organocatalysts BINOL-based

A number of BINOL-based bifunctional organocatalysts, for example (7.171-7.173), containing both Bronsted acidic and Lewis basic sites have been used to good effect in the asymmetric MBH reaction. The amine-thiourea (7.171) promotes the MBH reaction of aliphatic aldehydes with 2-cyclohexenone with ees ranging from 80 to 94% while both the (pyridinylaminomethyl)BINOL (7.172) and phosphine (7.173) catalyse the aza-Bayhs-Hilhnan reaction of simple a,p-carbonyls such as MVK and phenyl acrylate with N-tosyl arylaldmines with similar levels of enantioselectivity. 

In 2003, Rawal reported the use of TADDOLs 177 as chiral H-bonding catalysts to facilitate highly enantioselec-tive hetero-Diels-Alder reactions between dienes 181 and different aldehydes 86 (Scheme 6.29A) [82], and also BINOL-based catalysts 178 were found to facilitate this reaction with excellent selectivities [83]. TADDOLs were also successfully used as organocatalysts for other asymmetric transformations like Mukaiyama aldol reactions, nitroso aldol reactions, or Strecker reactions to mention a few examples only [84]. In addition, also BINOL derivatives have been employed as efficient chiral H-bonding activators as exemplified in the Morita-Baylis-Hilhnan reaction of enone 184 with different carbaldehydes 86 [85]. The use of chiral squaramides for asymmetric reactions dates back to 2005 when Xie et al. first used camphor-derived squaric amino alcohols as ligands in borane reductions [86]. The first truly organocatalytic application was described by Rawal et al. in 2008 who found that minute amounts of the bifunctional cinchona alkaloid-based squaramide 180 are... 

M. Shi and Y.-L. Shi reported the synthesis and application of new bifunctional axially chiral (thio) urea-phosphine organocatalysts in the asymmetric aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) reaction [176, 177] of N-sulfonated imines with methyl vinyl ketone (MVK), phenyl vinyl ketone (PVK), ethyl vinyl ketone (EVK) or acrolein [316]. The design of the catalyst structure is based on axially chiral BINOL-derived phosphines [317, 318] that have already been successfully utilized as bifunctional catalysts in asymmetric aza-MBH reactions. The formal replacement of the hydrogen-bonding phenol group with a (thio)urea functionality led to catalysts 166-168 (Figure 6.51). 

Chiral BINOL (60) is a bifunctional organocatalyst in addition to the phenolic Brpnsted acid groups, it has a Lewis base unit attached via a spacer moiety.167 This particular combination holds the groups in a conformational lock, where they can doubly activate a substrate while giving a high level of stereocontrol. For this example of an aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction of an enone and an imine, yields up to 100% and ees up to 96% have been achieved. 

S)-3-(A-Isopropyl-A-3-pyridinylaminomethyl)BINOL (4) has been established as an efficient asymmetric bifunctional organocatalyst for the aza-MBH reaction.23 The acid-base functionalities cooperate in substrate activation and fixing of the organocatalyst conformation to promote the reaction with high enantiocontrol. 

Another class of bifunctional organocatalysts for the enantioselective aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction of imines (112) with enones (113) (Scheme 6) is based on BINOL (115). The efficiency of the catalysts proved to be mainly influenced by the position of the Lewis basic moiety attached to the BINOL scaffold. The activation of the substrate by acid-base functionalities and the fixing of conformation of the catalyst (115) are apparently harmonized to maximize the enantiocontrol (<95% ee) 52... 

The metal-based Lewis acid derived from the camphor-derived Kgands such as (7.159) and La(OTf)3 is effective in the MBH reaction of aromatic aldehydes with a,P-unsaturated aldehydes mediated by l,4-diazabicyclo(2.2.2]octane (DABCO). The best ees (up to 95%) are obtained using sterically bulky acrylates such as a-naphthyl acrylate. More success has been obtained using Bronsted acidic organocatalysts. The partially reduced BINOL (7.160) has been used to effect enantioselective MBH reaction of aliphatic aldehydes such as (7.71) with 2-cyclohexen-l-one (7.161) mediated by triethylphosphine/ while bis(thio)ureas such as (7.163) provide up to 96% ee in the coupling of this ketone with cyclohex-anecarbaldehyde in the presence of DABCO. °... 

The development of a catalytic enantioselective process has received much attention and, in common with the all-carbon Diels-Alder reaction, most success has been achieved using metal-based Lewis acids and, most recently, organocatalysts/ The earliest work on an enantioselective variant of this reaction was performed by Danishefsky/ The enantiomerically pure europium complex Eu(hfc)3 provided moderate enantioselectivities for the hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between derivatives of diene (8.123) and benzaldehyde (8.125), performed under solvent-free conditions. Higher ees have been obtained using the hindered BINOL ligand (8.126), as its aluminium complex. Yamamoto s CAB catalysts (see Section 8.1) such as (8.129), with the appropriate substituent on boron, have also been used to good effect. 

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