Platinum complexes asymmetric hydroformylation

Platinum complexes with chiral phosphorus ligands have been extensively used in asymmetric hydroformylation. In most cases, styrene has been used as the substrate to evaluate the efficiency of the catalyst systems. In addition, styrere was of interest as a model intermediate in the synthesis of arylpropionic acids, a family of anti-inflammatory drugs.308,309 Until 1993 the best enantio-selectivities in asymmetric hydroformylation were provided by platinum complexes, although the activities and regioselectivities were, in many cases, far from the obtained for rhodium catalysts. A report on asymmetric carbonylation was published in 1993.310 Two reviews dedicated to asymmetric hydroformylation, which appeared in 1995, include the most important studies and results on platinum-catalogued asymmetric hydroformylation.80,81 A report appeared in 1999 about hydrocarbonylation of carbon-carbon double bonds catalyzed by Ptn complexes, including a proposal for a mechanism for this process.311... 

Styrene, a-ethyl-asymmetric hydroformylation catalysts, platinum complexes, 6, 266 asymmetric hydrogenation catalysts, rhodium complexes, 6, 250 Styrene, a-methyl-asymmetric carbonylation catalysis by palladium complexes, 6, 293 carbonylation... 

The cA-PtCl2(diphosphine)/SnCl2 constitutes the system mostly used in catalyzed hydroformylation of alkenes and many diphosphines have been tested. In the 1980s, Stille and co-workers reported on the preparation of platinum complexes with chiral diphosphines related to BPPM (82) and (83) and their activity in asymmetric hydroformylation of a variety of prochiral alkenes.312-314 Although the branched/normal ratios were low (0.5), ees in the range 70-80% were achieved in the hydroformylation of styrene and related substrates. When the hydroformylation of styrene, 2-ethenyl-6-methoxynaphthalene, and vinyl acetate with [(-)-BPPM]PtCl2-SnCl2 were carried out in the presence of triethyl orthoformate, enantiomerically pure acetals were obtained. 

Platinum(II) complexes with diphosphines based on DIOP (85),315-321 CHIRAPHOS (86),316,320 and bdpp (87)322-325 backbones have been prepared to be used, in the presence of SnCl2, as catalyst precursors in asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene and other alkenes. 

Chiral bis-(binaphthophosphole) (bis(BNP)) ligands have been used in the asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene. In solution, the free diphospholes display fluxional behavior. Consistent with their structure, the reaction of the bis(BNP) compounds with platinum(II) derivatives gives either cis chelate mononuclear complexes or trans phosphorus-bridged polynuclear derivatives. Coordination to platinum enhances the conformational stability of bis(BNP)s and diastereomeric complexes can be detected in solution. In the presence of SnCl2, the platinum complexes give rise to catalysts that exhibit remarkable activity in the hydroformylation of styrene. Under optimum conditions, reaction takes place with high branched selectivity (80-85%) and moderate enantio-selectivity (up to 45% ee). 

More successful attempts at asymmetric hydroformylation have involved rhodium and platinum complexes. As in asymmetric hydrogenation, best results have been obtained with optically active chelating diphosphines as ligands, but some studies of monophosphines have been made. Using... 

The majority of studies of asymmetric hydroformylation with rhodium and platinum complexes have made use of DIOP (49) as a ligand. With either the complex [RhCl(CO)(DIOP)] or [RhCl(C2H4)2]2 plus DIOP, styrene was hydroformylated to 2-phenylpropanal with optical yields of only 16%.366 When a-monodeuterostyrene was used as substrate, with DIOP and complex (34) as catalyst, essentially the same optical yield was obtained.367 The same catalyst with non-deuterated styrene under different conditions gave an optical yield of 25%.368... 

In spite of extensive studies on the asymmetric hydroformylation of olefins using chiral rhodium and platinum complexes as catalysts in early days, enantioselectivity had not exceeded 60% ee until the reaction of styrene catalyzed by PtCl2[DBP-DIOP (l)]/SnCl-> was reported to attain 95% ee in 1982 [8]. Although the value was corrected to 73% ee in 1983 [9], this result spurred further studies of the reaction in connection to possible commercial synthesis of antiinflammatory drugs such as (S)-ibuprofen and (S)-naproxen. The catalyst PtCl2[BPPM... 

Asymmetric hydroformylations of all the above types have been achieved with rhodium catalysts enantioface- and enantiomer-discriminating hydroformylations also occur with cobalt and platinum catalysts whereas with ruthenium or iridium complexes only enantioface-discriminating synthesis has been reported up to now (see Sect. 2.1.4.). 

Hydroformylation with platinum complexes proceeds as described in Scheme 5 when a Lewis acid, e.g., SnCl2, is added. The Lewis acid removes the chloride from the platinum center to afford a vacant coordination site to which the olefins can coordinate. Asymmetric induction occurs during the formation of alkyl intermediates via olefin insertion into the Pt-H bond [8]. Most importantly, the re-gio- and enantioselectivities are strongly influenced by the reaction temperature in the Pt(II)-catalyzed asymmetric hydroformylations [10, 70, 71, 72, 73]. Re-... 

Amino acid derived chiral aminophosphane phosphinites (AMPP) such as Ephos, Proliphos, Glyphos and others1 " 128,195 constitute another new type of chiral phosphane ligand used in asymmetric hydroformylation with rhodium complexes 127,128 and platinum salts113. 

Cobalt, rhodium and platinum complexes modified with numerous chiral phosphanes have been used in asymmetric hydroformylation of styrene. The results are compiled in Table 4. Iso-product selectivities of >95% and stereoselectivities of >90% ce are reported, in many cases, however, only with low conversion rates and yields. Early results based on optical rotation measurements had to be reevaluated due to wrongly adopted rotation values for hydra tropaldehyde4-. ... 

Asymmetric hydroformylation of prochiral olefins has been investigated both for the elucidation of reaction mechanism and for development of a potentially useful method for asymmetric organic synthesis. Rhodium and platinum complexes have been extensively studied, and cobalt complexes to a lesser extent. A variety of enantiopure or enantiomerically enriched phosphines, diphosphines, phosphites, diphosphites, phosphine-phosphites, thiols, dithiols, P,A-ligands, and P,5-ligands have been developed as chiral modifiers of rhodium and platinum catalysts. - " ... 

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