Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation

Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene derivatives usually proceeds with high regioselectivity to produce benzylic silanes, 1-aryl-1-silyle thanes, because of the... 

The most active palladium catalyst system developed for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene (Scheme 23) involves the use of the (/ )-MOP-phen ligand (38), which shows significant enhancement of enantioselectivity compared to (R)-MeO-MOP (80% ee from (38), 39% ee from (36a)).114 Other phosphine ligands that afford active palladium catalysts for the same transformation include the /3-7V-sulfonylaminoalkylphosphine (39) and phosphetane ligand (40) (Equation (13)).115-117 A comparison of the enantioselectivities of these ligands for the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene is given in Table 8. 

The asymmetric hydrosilylation that has been most extensively studied so far is the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene derivatives with trichlorosilane. This is mainly due to the easy manipulation of this reaction, which usually proceeds with perfect regioselectivity in giving benzylic silanes, 1-aryl-1-silylethanes. This regioselectivity is ascribed to the formation of stable 7t-benzylpalladium intermediates (Scheme 3).1,S Sa It is known that bisphosphine-palladium complexes are catalytically much less active than monophosphine-palladium complexes, and, hence, asymmetric synthesis has been attempted by use of chiral monodentate phosphine ligands. In the first report published in 1972, menthyldiphenylphosphine 4a and neomenthyldiphenylphosphine 4b have been used for the palladium-catalyzed reaction of styrene 1 with trichlorosilane. The reactions gave l-(trichlorosilyl)-l-phenylethane 2 with 34% and 22% ee, respectively (entries 1 and 2 in Table l).22 23... 

Using quantum chemical molecular modelling tools we have examined the reaction mechanism of palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene by the precatalyst system, 1, developed by Togni and co-workers. One fundamental question that we have focused on is whether the reaction proceeds by the classical Chalk-Harrod mechanism or by an alternative mechanism such as the modified-Chalk-Harrod mechanism. In this section, the general features of the catalytic cycle are examined. 

In this and subsequent sections, we investigate the reaction mechanism of the palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene via ah initio molecular dynamics and combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) techniques. Both methodologies constitute powerful approaches for the study of the catalytic activity and selectivity of transition metal... 

A detailed study of the mechanism of the enantioselective palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene with trichlorosilane was carried out with combined QM/MM ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. A number of fundamental mechanistic questions have been addressed, including the main features of the catalytic cycle, as well as the specific nature of the regioselectivity and enatioselectivity. 

Pentacoordinate silicon, in the form of allyltrichlorosilane, in the presence of DMF or HMPA, also undergoes allylation with aldehyde [97,98], The Lewis base-promoted approach has the merit of operational convenience. Stereoselective formation of allylic trichlorosilanes is achieved by copper-catalyzed coupling of allylic chloride and trichlorosilane or by palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes (Sch. 56) [99],... 

The chiral ferrocenylmonophosphine ligand 7c, which is analogous to PPFA 3a but contains a perfluoroalkyl group on the aminoethyl side chain, is more enantioselective than PPFA (Scheme 2-48) [67]. The enantioselectivity in the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene and 1-vinylcyclohexene is increased to 60% ee and 43% ee, respectively. The polymer-supported PPFA 62 has been used for the hydrosilylation of styrene (15% ee) [68]. 

Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of terminal 1,3-dienes proceeds with high 1,4-regioselectivity. For example, butadiene and isoprene react with HSiCl3 in the presence of Pd(PPh3)4 to give the 1,4-hydrosilylation product [Eq. (1)] [12]. 

Hydrosilylation of cyclic dienes also worked well to give allylic silanes. Thus, palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of cyclopenta-1,3-diene and cyclohexa-1,3-diene afforded the corresponding allylsilanes in good yield [13,14]. 

The reason for the high selectivity for formation of Z-olefins in the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation can be explained by formation of a cisoid complex of type 2 [Eq.(2)], which after hydride addition undergoes a reductive elimination which is faster then syn-anti isomerization [5]. 

This volume begins with two procedures in the area of catalytic asymmetric synthesis. The first procedure describes the synthesis of (R)-2-Dl PH ENYLPHOSPHI NO-2 -METHOXY-1,1 -BINAPHTHYL (MOP), a chiral ligand that has proven very useful in palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of olefins and palladium-catalyzed reduction of allylic esters by formic acid. The next procedure describes the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of nitroaldols using a chiral LANTHANUM-LITHIUM-BINOL COMPLEX, illustrated by the synthesis of (2S,3S)-2-NITRO-5-PHENYL-1,3-PENTANEDIOL. 

The axially chiral, monophosphine ligand, MeO-MOP (7a), was not as effective for styrene derivatives as for simple terminal olefins [31]. The palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene (13) with trichlorosilane in the presence of the (H)-MeO-MOP ligand (7a) under standard conditions (without solvent) followed by oxidation gave (H)-l-phenylethanol (16) with only 14% ee (Scheme 8). Use of benzene as solvent for the hydrosilylation reaction improved the enanti-... 

Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes is one of the important synthetic methods for allylic silanes, and considerable attention has been directed to the asymmetric synthesis of the latter by catalytic methods [9]. Optically active allyhc silanes have been used as chiral allylating reagents in S reactions with electrophiles, typically aldehydes [38,39]. In the presence of Pd catalysts the reaction with hydrosilanes containing electron-withdrawing atoms or substituents on sihcon usually proceeds in a 1,4-fashion giving allyHc silanes [40,41]. Asymmetric hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene (29) forming optically active 3-silylcyclopentene (30) has been most extensively studied (Scheme 13). In the first report, hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene (29) with methyldichlorosilane in the presence of 0.01 mol % of palladium-(l )-(S)-PPFA (15a) as a catalyst gave... 

Pereira et al. [205] have reviewed a large scale synthesis of enantiopure and thermally stable (R)- and (S)-BINOL phosphines and phosphinites, which were employed as ligands in palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene, affording the corresponding alcohols in high yield and enantiomeric excess. 

The syntheses of axially chiral biarylphosphine oxides based on alkynylphosphine oxide 2.157 and acetylene was carried out using chiral cobalt catalyst 2.159 [100, 105, 106]. The [24-24-2] cycloaddition, however, resulted in axially chiral biarylphosphine oxides 2.160 with moderate yield and enantioselectivity (Scheme 2.55). It was accompanied by a recovery of some of the corresponding phosphines. The newly obtained phosphines were used in the reaction of palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of unsymmetrical alkenes [100]. 

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