Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation asymmetric

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... 

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. 

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... 

Table 9 Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrene.

The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrenes has been applied to the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of l-aryl-l,2-diols from arylacetylenes (Scheme 6).46 Thus, ( )-l-aryl-2-(trichlorosilyl)ethenes, which are readily generated by platinum-catalyzed hydrosilylation of arylacetylenes, were treated with trichlorosilane and the palladium catalyst coordinated with MOP ligand 12f to give 1 -aryl-1,2-bis(silyl)ethanes, oxidation of which produced the enantiomerically enriched (95-98% ee) 1,2-diols. 

Table 2 Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of substituted styrenes 25 with trichlorosilane Substrate 25...

Linear 1,3-dienes have also been subjected to the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation (Scheme 12, Table 5). Reaction of 1-phenyl-l,3-butadiene 46a with HSiClj catalyzed by palladium-(/ )-(A)-PPFA 5a gave a mixture of regioisomeric allysilanes 47, and 48 and 49, in a ratio of 94 to 6, the major isomer 47 and the minor isomer 48 being 64% ee (S) and 30% ee (R), respectively (entry l).60 7r-Allylpalladium intermediate 50 was proposed for this hydrosilylation. Use of phenyldifluorosilane in place of trichlorosilane slightly improved the enantioselectivity (entry 8).58,61 Similar level of enantioselectivity (71-72% ee) was reported for the reaction using Ar-MOP ligand 37f (entry 11) and its dioctylated derivative 37g (entry 12).57a... 

Table 5 Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of linear 1,3-dienes 46...

Another example of the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of simple terminal alkene, 1-hexene, was reported recently where rfl-phosphoramidite 21d gave 35% yield of (i )-2-hexanol with 68% ee.45... 

Although it is not a catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation, chirality transfer was reported in the palladium-catalyzed addition of an enantiomerically enriched hydrosilane to norbornene.76... 

Catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation of prochiral olefins has become an interesting area in synthetic organic chemistry since the first successful conversion of alkyl-substituted terminal olefins to optically active secondary alcohols (>94% ee) by palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation in the presence of chiral monodentate phosphine ligand (MOP, 20). The introduced silyl group can be converted to alcohol via oxidative cleavage of the carbon-silicon bond (Scheme 8-8).27... 

In 2001, a palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of 4-substituted-but-l-en-3-ynes (146) was reported by Hayashi and co-workers [115]. It was found that a monodentate bulky chiral phosphine, (S)-(R)-bisPPFOMe, was effective for the asymmetric synthesis of the axially chiral allenes 147 and up to 90% ee was achieved (Scheme 3.75). The bulky substituent at the 4-position in 146 is essential for the selective formation of the allene 147 the reaction of nC6H13C=CCH=CH2 gave a complex mixture of hydrosilylation products which consisted of <20% of the allenylsilane. 

Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric cyclization/hydrosilylation tolerated a number of functional groups including benzyl and pivaloyl ethers as well as benzyl and methyl esters (Table 8, entries 1-4). Furthermore, the protocol tolerated substitution at one of the two /ra/zi -terminal alkenyl positions and at one of the two allylic positions of the 1,6-diene (Table 8). As was the case with diene cyclization/hydrosilylation catalyzed by achiral palladium... 

Asymmetric Hydrosilylation of Alkenes. The palladium complex PdCl2[(/ )-(5)-PPFA] catalyzes the asymmetric hydrosilylation of norbornene, styrene, and 1,3-dienes (eq 3). The hydrosilylation of 1-phenyl-1,3-butadiene with Trichlorosilane proceeds regioselectively in a 1,4-fashion to give (Z)-1-phenyl-1-silyl-2-butene of 64% ee. 

Early studies on the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of cyclic conjugated dienes employing menthyl- and neomenthyldiphenylphosphine and ferrocenylamino-phosphine ligands gave low enantiomeric excesses of the corresponding allylsilane [13]. 

In a recent study, a significant improvement was accomplished in the asymmetric palladium-catalyzed 1,4-hydrosilylation of cyclic 1,3-dienes with the use of chiral ligand (/ )-MOP-phen (Scheme 8-2) [18]. Thus hydrosilylation of cyclopentadiene gave 5 in 99% yield with an enantiomeric excess of 80%, which is the highest reported ee value for Pd-catalyzed hydrosilylations of 1,3-dienes. With 1,3-cyclohexadiene, the yield of the... 

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