Sulfoxide—oxazoline ligand

Deprotonation of Oxazolines. New chiral oxazoline-sulfoxide ligands have recently been prepared and utilized as chiral ligands in copper(II)-catalyzed enantioselective Diels-Alder reactions. These new ligands were prepared via sulfinylation of chiral 1,3-oxazoline to lead to unsubstituted oxazoline sulfoxide derivatives. While the first methylation was conducted using LDA and methyl iodide, the introduction of the second methyl was carried out using JCHMDS and methyl iodide to afford the desired chiral ligand (eq 39). 

In 1994, the same authors reported the synthesis of corresponding oxazolines tethered to sulfoxides by ortholithiation of the parent 2-phenyl oxazoline with butyllithium followed by addition of either (5)- or (/ )-/ -tolylmenthyl-sulfinate. Applied as ligands in the test reaetion, these diastereomerie ligands gave very different results, as shown in Seheme 1.25, thus demonstrating the... 

Scheme 1.25 Test reaction with sulfoxide-oxazoline ligands.

In addition, Rowlands has involved chiral sulfoxide-containing ligands for the catalytic addition of McsSiCN to aldehydes. " The ligand structure was based on a phenolic oxazoline scaffold with introduction of the sulfur substituent via cysteine derivatives. The best enantioselectivities of up to 61% ee were obtained with the bulkiest tert-butyl substituted ligand (Scheme 10.42). The effect of the sulfoxide configuration was studied, showing that the use of... 

Many of the ferrocene ligand families described above are derived from a resolved chiral precursor (i.e. 289). Efforts to (76) prepare planar chiral ferrocenes also employ other strategies that rely on a directed metalation (see Orthometalation). Sulfoxide (338), acetal (339), and oxazolines of type (321)... 

Another approach to enantiomerically pure planar chiral azaferrocenes involves 2-lithiation of (367) followed by addition of (-)-menthyl-(5 ) — jo-toluenesulfinate. The diastereomeric sulfoxides thus obtained are chromatograph-ically separable, and treatment of each diastereomer with t-BuLi produces an enantiomerically pure planar chiral anion that may be trapped with an electrophile (Scheme 98). Finally, in order to obviate the need for performing a resolution or a chromatographic separation, chiral ligand-mediated enantioselective deprotonations have been investigated. Lithiation of (367) in the presence of (-)-sparteine followed by addition of an electrophile gives the 2-substituted azaferrocene in good enantioselectivities (Scheme 99). However, lateral lithiation of (370) mediated by 5-valine-derived bis(oxazoline) (371) provides planar chiral products with excellent enantios-electivity. 

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