Pyridine-oxazolines

Associated to copper(II) pre-catalysts, bis(oxazolines) also allowed the asymmetric Diels-Alder and hetero Diels-Alder transformations to be achieved in nearly quantitative yield and high diastereo- and enantioselectivities. Optically active sulfoximines, with their nitrogen-coordinating site located at close proximity to the stereogenic sulfur atom, have also proven their efficiency as copper ligands for these asymmetric cycloadditions. Other precursors for this Lewis acid-catalyzed transformation have been described (e.g., zinc salts, ruthenium derivatives, or rare earth complexes) which, when associated to bis(oxazolines), pyridine-oxazolines or pyridine-bis(oxazolines), led to efficient catalysts. 

Widenhoefer has also disclosed an interesting extension consisting of hydrosilylative cyclization of a diene catalyzed by palladium. High enantioselectivity (up to 95% ee) was achieved by using palladium catalysts with Ci-symmetric pyridine-oxazoline ligands351,364 and recent mechanistic studies have confirmed the involvement of an intramolecular carbometallation step.365... 

A single report appears in the literature regarding the use of chirally modified palladium catalysts in reductive enyne cyclization.60 Upon exposure of 1,6-enyne 36a to the indicated palladium pyridine-oxazoline complex in the presence of EtjSiH, cyclization product 36b is formed in good yield, but with only modest levels of asymmetric induction (Scheme 26). 

Hydrosilylation of 1,6-dienes accompanied by cyclization giving a five-membered ring system is emerging as a potential route to the synthesis of functionalized carbocycles.81,81a,81b 82 As its asymmetric version, diallylmalonates 86 were treated with trialkylsilane in the presence of a cationic palladium catalyst 88, which is coordinated with a chiral pyridine-oxazoline ligand. As the cyclization-hydrosilylation products, //ww-disubstituted cyclopentanes 87 were obtained with high diastereoselectivity (>95%), whose enantioselectivity ranged between 87% and 90% (Scheme 25).83 83a... 

Widenhoefer and co-workers have developed an effective Pd-catalyzed protocol for the asymmetric cyclization/ hydrosilylation of functionalized 1,6-dienes that employed chiral, non-racemic pyridine-oxazoline ligands." " " Optimization studies probed the effect of both the G(4) substituent of the pyridine-oxazoline ligand (Table 7, entries 1-6) and the nature of the silane (Table 7, entries 6-15) on the yield and enantioselectivity of the cyclization/ hydrosilylation of dimethyl diallylmalonate. These studies revealed that employment of isopropyl-substituted catalyst (N-N)Pd(Me)Gl [N-N = (i )-( )-4-isopropyl-2-(2-pyridinyl)-2-oxazoline] [(i )-43f and a stoichiometric amount of benzhydryldimethylsilane provided the best combination of asymmetric induction and chemical yield, giving the corresponding silylated cyclopentane in 98% yield as a single diastereomer with 93% ee (Table 7, entry 15). 

Table 7 Asymmetric cyclization/hydrosilylation of dimethyl diallyl malonate catalyzed by palladium pyridine-oxazoline complexes...

Chiral Lewis-basic catalysts (Figs. 7.1 and 7.2), in particular phosphoramides 8-12 [9, 14c, 15c, 22-24], formamide 13 [17], pyridine N,N -bisoxides 17 and 18 [25-27], N-monoxides (19-26) [27-32], and N,N N"-trisoxides (27) [33] exhibit good to high enantioselectivities for the allylation of aromatic, heteroaromatic, and cinnamyl-type aldehydes (1) with allyl, trans- and ds-crotyl, and prenyl trichlorosilanes (2a-d). Chiral formamides (with the exception of 13, as discussed below) [17], pyridine-oxazolines [34], urea derivatives [19] and sulfoxides [35] are effective only in stoichiometric quantities (or in excess) and, as a rule, exhibit lower enantioselectivities. 

Pyridine-oxazolines (Pymox, L7, Fig. 3), first introduced in 1989, were prepared via two routes [15,16,17,18]. The first started from 2-cyanopyridine, which... 

More recently, a phosphine ligand-free ruthenium-catalyzed direct arylation with aryl bromides as electrophiles was disclosed. Notably, the use of inexpensive RuCl3(H20)n as catalyst in NMP as solvent allowed for economically attractive C-H bond functionalizations of pyridine, oxazoline and pyrazole derivatives, also with more sterically hindered orfftosubstituted aryl bromides as electrophiles (Scheme 21) [79, 80],... 

The many synthetic methods available for preparing NHCs have allowed for their ready incorporation into an increasingly diverse set of multidentate ligands. The topic of chelating ligands containing NHCs has been covered in several reviews.Heteroleptic variations have included phosphines, amines, imines, pyridines, oxazolines, amides, alkoxides, aryloxides, thioethers, and other donors. 

The use of aryl tosylates as electrophiles is attractive, because they can be prepared from readily available phenols with less-expensive reagents than those required for synthesis of the corresponding triflates. Importantly, tosylates are more stable towards hydrolysis than triflates, yet significantly less reactive as electrophiles. As a result, protocols for traditional cross-coupHng reactions were only recently developed (see Chapter 2). In contrast, catalytic direct arylations with aryl tosylates were not reported until recently. Interestingly, a rathenium complex derived from heteroatom-substituted secondary phosphine oxide (HASPO) preligand 78 [40] allowed for direct arylations with both electron-deficient, as well as electron-rich aryl tosylates [41]. As pronucleophiles, pyridine, oxazoline and pyrazole derivatives could be efficiently functionalized. Selective mono- or diarylation reactions could be accomplished through the judicious choice of the... 

An enantioselective process of this reaction has been developed by replacing the phenanthroline ligand with a chiral bisoxazoline or pyridine-oxazoline ligand (30,47,50). For example, the reaction of diene 35 catalyzed by palladium... 

As shown in the mechanism depicted in (Scheme 18), the Pd-catalyzed silyl-carbocyclization of 1,6-dienes involves a reversible insertion of an olefin moiety into the [Pd]-Si bond (E-II to E-III). However, the coordination of the second olefin moiety to the Pd metal (forming E-IV) would fill the coordination site required for the j8-silyl-elimination and would therefore render the C—Si bond formation irreversible, which leads to the irreversible carbometalation to jdeld E-V. Accordingly, when the chiral Pd(pyridine-oxazoline) complex is used as the catalyst, the enantioselectivity should be determined at the first olefin insertion step forming -silylalkyl-[Pd] complex E-III. 

A proposed mechanism for the asymmetric induction in this process is shown in (Scheme 20). The coordination of an olefin moiety of a 1,6-diene to (i )-pyridine-oxazoline-Pd complex F-I could potentially generate many diastere-omers. However, taking into account the fact that this reaction involves an... 

Chiral Lewis-basic catalysts, in particular phosphoratnides (1 and 2),2-13c. 16.46,47 pyridine iV,iV-bisoxides (3 and and pyridine iV-monoxides (5, 6 and 7,8),3 exhibit very high enantioselectivities for the allylation of aromatic, heteroaromatic, and cinnamyl-type aldehydes with allyl, ( )- and (Z)-crotyl, and prenyl trichlorosilanes. Chiral formamides, pyridine-oxazolines, urea derivatives, and sulfoxides are generally less enantioselective and effective only in stoichiometric quantities. The reaction is much less efficient with aliphatic aldehydes, which require stoichiometric conditions (vide infra). However, a, -unsaturated aldehydes do react readily and give 1,2-addition products. 

By contrast the well-defined Ru(02CMes)2(arene) catalyst was efficient to perform ortho mono(hetero)aiylation of arenes containing a nitrogen directing group (pyridine, oxazoline, pyrazole, benzoquinoline...), when the second ortho C-H bond was protected, but also of alkenes [(Eq. 12)] [80]. 

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