Propargylic boranes ketones

The reaction of propargylic borane (R = H), however, is dramatically affected by the reaction temperature, and its reaction is carried out at -78 °C and slowly warmed to room temperature. a-Allenic alcohols are obtained as the predominant products from all the aldehydes and certain ketones (Table 6.20) [1]. 

Table 6.20 Reactions of representative aldehydes and ketones with propargylic borane [1]...

Asymmetric reduction of a,f -acetylenic ketones. This borane can be used to reduce 1-deulerio aldehydes to chiral (S)-l-deulerio primary alcohols in 90% optical yields. It also reduces a,/ -acctylcnic ketones to (R)-propargylic alcohols with enantiomeric purity of 73-100%. The ee value is increased by an increase in the size of the group attached to the carbonyl group. The value is also higher in reductions of terminal ynones. Alcohols of the opposite configuration can be obtained with the reagent prepared from (— )-a-pinene. 

The CBS reduction has also proven to be an efficient method for asymmetric reduction of a,ft-unsaturated enones14 and ynones15 (Scheme 4.31). The asymmetric reduction of alkynyl ketones affords propargylic alcohols 30 with high levels of enantioselectivity and in moderate to good yields. Optimized reaction conditions for the reduction are the use of THF at — 30° C, 2 equivalents of chiral oxazaborolidine 28b, and 5 equivalents of borane methyl sulfide complex. 

Midland and others reported that B-isopinocampheyl-9-borabicyclo[3.3.l]no-nane [Alpine-Borane (7 )-79] is an effective reagent for the highly asymmetric reduction of alkynyl ketones to afford the propargylic alcohol 8030 (Scheme 4.3z). The reagent (R)-19 is prepared from (+)-a-pinene and 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]no-nane (9-BBN) and often represented as 19banana. The levels of asymmetric... 

The first total synthesis of the neuritogenic spongean polyacetylene lembehyne A was accomplished by M. Kobayashi and co-workers. The single stereocenter of the molecule was introduced via the Midland reduction of a propargylic ketone using an Alpine-Borane , which was prepared from (+)-a-pinene and 9-BBN. 

Asymmetric reduction of propargyl ketones with (R) or (S) Alpine borane (B-isopinocamphenyl-9-borabicyclo, [3,3,1] nonane(A))... 

Scheme 7.5. Alpine-borane method of asymmetric reduction, (a) Preparation of Alpine-Borane . (b) Reduction of deuterio benzaldehyde [52], (c) Reduction of propargyl ketones...

In a totally different approach, Noyori et al. have used binaphthol-modifled aluminum hydride reagent for enatioselective reduction of alkynyl ketones. Suitably modified boranes can be used for stereoselective reduction of ketones. Along these same lines. Midland" has developed Alpine borane (1, Scheme 21.5), which is excellent for several acetylenic ketones but has been found inefficient for hindered ot,p-acetylenic ketones. To overcome this problem, Brown et al." have introduced P-chlorodiisopinocamphenyl borane 2(-)-DIP-Cl (2, (Scheme 21.5), which reacts well with hindered ketones to provide the corresponding propargyl alcohols in 96 to 99% e.e. 

Midland and coworkers [13,14] achieved the reduction of sterically less congested propargyl ketones with AIpine-Borane. The reduction is accomplished using 2 equiv of 0.5-M solutions of AIpine-Borane (Table 26.11) [14]. Terminal acetylenic ketones and acetylenic ketoesters are completely reduced after 8 h at room temperature. Internal acetylenic ketones require 1-4 days at room temperature for complete reductions. The optically active chromanyl substrates (entries 7, 8) yield diastereomeric alcohols with (R,R) R,S) ratios of 85 15 for internal and 91 9 for the terminal acetylenes with the AIpine-Borane derived from (-i-)-a-pinene of 100% ee. The reagent obtained from pure (-)-a-pinene affords 18 82 ratio of the two diastereomeric internal propargylic alcohols. 

The chemoselectivity shown by Alpine-Borane allows one to achieve selective reduction of propargyl ketone in the presence of methyl ketone [14] (Eq. 26.10). 

The reduction of a,p-acetylenic ketones is accomplished in 24-48 h at room temperature by using twofold excess of NB-Enantrane and running the reaction without solvent. Both chemical and enantiomeric yields are high (Table 26.14) and provide (S)-propargyl alcohols. The reduction fits the steric model proposed for Alpine-Borane reduction [3]. Nopol benzyl ether liberated after the reduction maybe easily isolated during purification of the product and recycled. 

R)-Propargylic alcohols have also been produced, this time in 73—100% e.e., by asymmetric reduction of a,/3-acetylenic ketones with the chiral borane prepared from (+)-a-pinene and 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (9-BBN) (Scheme 10), a system already known to reduce aldehydes to chiral alcohols cf. 2,115). These results compare favourably with those from the LiAlH4- Darvon complex above, and the availability of both (+)-and (-)-o -pinene means that either (R)-or (5)-propargylic alcohols may be produced. 

There have been significant discoveries of methods that enable the enantioselective addition of an alkyne to an aldehyde or a ketone [182]. The resulting chiral propargyl alcohols are amenable to a wide variety of subsequent structural modifications and function as useful, versatile chemical building blocks. In 1994, Corey reported the enantioselective addition reactions of boryl acetylides such as 292, prepared from the corresponding stannyl acetylenes (e.g., 291) in the presence of the oxazaborolidine 293 as the chiral catalyst (Scheme 2.36) [183]. Both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes were demonstrated to participate in these addition reactions, which proceeded in high yields and with impressive enantioselectivity. The proposed transition state model 295 is believed to involve dual activation both of the nucleophile (acetylide) and of the electrophile (aldehyde). The model bears a resemblance to the constructs previously proposed for alkylzinc addition reactions (Noyori, 153) and borane reductions (Corey. 188). 

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