Reaction asymmetric nitro aldol

Scheme 3.20. Proposed mechanism of asymmetric nitro-aldol reactions catalyzed by LLB, LLB-II, or LLB-LI nitronate...

Over the last few years several examples have been reported in the field of asymmetric catalysis that are based on the interaction of two centers.6,119 Recently, Shibasaki and coworkers have developed an asymmetric two-center catalyst. Scheme 3.14 shows preparation of optically active La binaphthol (BINOL). This catalyst is effective in inducing the asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction, as shown in Scheme 3.15. 

Scheme 3.15. La-BINOL complex-catalyzed asymmetric nitro-aldol reactions...

A yyw-selective asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction has been reported for structurally simple aldehydes using a new catalyst generated from 6,6-bis[(triethylsilyl)ethynyl]BINOL (g in Scheme 3.18).126 The syn selectivity in the nitro-aldol reaction can be explained by steric hindrance in the bicyclic transition state as can be seen in Newman projection. In the favored transition state, the catalyst acts as a Lewis acid and as a Lewis base at different sites. In contrast, the nonchelation-controlled transition state affords anti product with lower ee. This stereoselective nitro-aldol reaction has been applied to simple synthesis of t/ircodihydrosphingosine by the reduction of the nitro-aldol product with H2 and Pd-C (Eq. 3.79). 

The LLB catalysts requires at least 3.3 mol% of asymmetric catalyst for efficient nitro-aldol reactions, and the reactions are rather slow (first generation). Second-generation LLB catalysts are prepared by addition of 1 equiv of H20 and 0.9 equiv of w-BuLi. The second-generation-catalysts are more reactive than the first generation LLB as shown in Eq. 3.80. The proposed mechanism of asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction using these catalysts is presented in Scheme 3.20.128... 

Heterobimetallic asymmetric complexes contain both Bronsted basic and Lewis acidic functionalities. These complexes have been developed by Shibasaki and coworkers and have proved to be highly efficient catalysts for many types of asymmetric reactions, including catalytic asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction (see Section 3.3) and Michael reaction. They have reported that the multifunctional catalyst (f )-LPB [LaK3tris(f )-binaphthoxide] controls the Michael addition of nitromethane to chalcones with >95% ee (Eq. 4.140).205... 

Scheme 12. Chiral lanthanum complex as catalyst in the asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction according to Shibasaki.

Chinchilla, R., Najera, C., Sanchez-Agullo, P. Enantiomerically pure guanidine-catalyzed asymmetric nitro aldol reaction. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 1994, 5,1393-1402. 

Reviews for catalytic asymmetric nitro-aldol reaction (a) Palomo, C., Oiarbide, M., Mielgo, A. (2004) Ange-wandte Chemk International Edition, 43, 5442. (b) Shibasaki, M., Groger H., Kanai, M. (2003). In Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis Supplement 1, (ed. E.N. Jacobsen, A. Pfaltz, H. Yamamoto), Springer New York, Supplement to Chapter 29.3. 

The heterobimetallic asymmetric catalyst, Sm-Li-(/ )-BINOL, catalyzes the nitro-aldol reaction of ot,ot-difluoroaldehydes with nitromethane in a good enantioselective manner, as shown in Eq. 3.78. In general, catalytic asymmetric syntheses of fluorine containing compounds have been rather difficult. The S configuration of the nitro-aldol adduct of Eq. 3.78 shows that the nitronate reacts preferentially on the Si face of aldehydes in the presence of (R)-LLB. In general, (R)-LLB causes attack on the Re face. Thus, enantiotopic face selection for a,a-difluoroaldehydes is opposite to that for nonfluorinated aldehydes. The stereoselectivity for a,a-difluoroaldehydes is identical to that of (3-alkoxyaldehydes, as shown in Scheme 3.19, suggesting that the fluorine atoms at the a-position have a great influence on enantioface selection. 

Asymmetric amplification has also been observed in lanthanum-catalyzed nitro-aldol reaction, Shibasaki used a chiral lanthanum complex 15 prepared from LaCl3 and dilithium alkoxide of chiral BINOL for the enantioselective aldol reaction between naphthoxyacetaldehyde 14 and nitromethane (Scheme 9.11) [26]. When chiral catalyst 15 was prepared from BINOL with 56% ee, the corresponding aldol adduct 16 with 68% ee was obtained. This result indicates that the lanthanum 15 complex should exist as oligomer(s). 

Corey and colleagues applied their catalyst to the asymmetric Henry (nitro aldol) reaction using chiral aminoaldehydes and the short-step synthesis of an HIV protease inhibitor (Scheme 3.9) [26]. Interestingly, a newly generated asymmetric center is controlled by the chiral catalyst and nitrogen substituents. 

Besides the Mukaiyama aldol and the carbonyl-ene reactions another successful application of asymmetric catalysis is the nitro-aldol reaction... 

Nitro-Aldol Condensation. A BINOL-derived lanthanide complex has been used as an efficient catalyst for the nitro-aldol reaction (eq 27). Interestingly enough, the presence of water and LiCl in the reaction mixture is essential to obtain the high level of asymmetric induction and chemical yield. 

For example, an effective procedure for the synthesis of LLB (where LL = lanthanum and lithium) is treatment of LaCls 7H2O with 2.7 mol equiv. BINOL dilithium salt, and NaO-t-Bu (0.3 mol equiv.) in THF at 50 °C for 50 h. Another efficient procedure for the preparation of LLB starts from La(0-/-Pr)3 [54], the exposure of which to 3 mol equiv. BINOL in THF is followed by addition of butyllithium (3 mol equiv.) at 0 C. It is worthy of note that heterobimetallic asymmetric complexes which include LLB are stable in organic solvents such as THF, CH2CI2 and toluene which contain small amounts of water, and are also insensitive to oxygen. These heterobimetallic complexes can, by choice of suitable rare earth and alkali metals, be used to promote a variety of efficient asymmetric reactions, for example nitroaldol, aldol, Michael, nitro-Mannich-type, hydrophosphonylation, hydrophosphination, protonation and Diels-Alder reactions. A catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reaction, a direct catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction, and a catalytic asymmetric nitro-Mannich-type reaction are discussed in detail below. 

Bianchini, C., Glendenning, L. Efficient diastereoselective and enantioselective nitro aldol reactions from prochiral starting materials utilization of La-Li-6,6 -distributed BINOL complexes as asymmetric catalysts. Chemtracts Org. Chem. 1996, 9, 327-330. 

Shibasaki, M., Groger, H. Nitro aldol reaction, in Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis /-/// (eds. Jacobsen, E., Pfaltz, A.,Yamamoto, H.), 3, 1075-1090 (Springer, Berlin, New York, 1999). 

The high-pressure technique even promotes the diastereoselective catalytic asymmetric Henry (nitro-aldol) reaction of optically active a-aminoaldehydes with nitro-derivatives, which is one of the most valuable methods for ready access to non-natural 3-amino-2-hydroxy acids and 1,3-diamino-2-hydroxy compounds. ... 

The Henry reaction or the nitroaldol is a classical reaction where the a-anion of an alkylnitro compound reacts with an aldehyde or ketone to form a 3-nitroalcohol adduct. Over the decades, the Henry reaction has been used to synthesize natural products and pharmaceutical intermediates. In addition, asymmetric catalysis has allowed this venerable reaction to contribute to a plethora of stereoselective aldol condensations. Reviews (a) Ballini, R. Bosica, G. Fiorini, D. Palmieri, A. Front. Nat.Prod. Chem. 2005, 1, 37-41. (b) Ono, N. In The Nitro Group in Organic Synthesis Wiley-VCH Weinheim, 2001 Chapter 3 The Nitro-Aldol (Henry) Reaction, pp. 30-69. (c) Luzzio, F. A. Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 915-945. 

Since these initial publications, the considerable efforts of Shibasaki and coworkers have lead to lanthanide element-binaphtholato complexes as being the most developed and potent of asymmetric phospho-aldol catalysts. From their early work on catalysis in the nitro-aldol reaction [28], Shibasaki and co-workers have published widely and in considerable detail on the use of hetero-bimetallic catalysis, developing the field to such a degree that enzyme-like comparisons have been made. Much of the success of the Shibasaki team in hetero-bimetallic catalysis has been reviewed recently [29], the key to which has been the delineation of the solid state structures of the catalytic precursors via single crystal X-ray diffraction studies [30] (Fig. 1) and the development of improved synthetic routes to this class of heterobimetallic system (Scheme 12) which emphasise the important role of added water [31]. 

In comparison to samarium and ytterbium salts, there were few examples for cerium, praseodymium, and other the rare earth metals catalyzed aldol reaction (214,215). In 2000s, Samarium salts, especially Sml2, have been used in versatile aldol reactions, for example, direct aldol of aldehydes and substituted oxi-ranyl ketones (216), nitro aldol reaction (217,218), intramolecular aldol reaction (219), and other aldol reaction of special carbonyl compounds (220-222). However, catalytic asymmetric samarium-catalytic aldol reaction was not reported so far. In the asymmetric version of the aldol reaction, ytterbium exhibited promising enantioinduction. In the first example of the asymmetric ytterbium-catalyzed aldol reaction, moderate levels of enantioselectivities were achieved (Scheme 56) (223). Subsequently, Mlynarski and co-workers improved enatioinduction ability of the ytterbium-catalyzed aldol reaction by using catalytic amount of Yb(OTf)3... 

The asymmetric catalytic nitroaldol reaction, also known as the asymmetric Henry reaction, is another example of an aldol-related synthesis of high general interest. In this reaction nitromethane (or a related nitroalkane) reacts in the presence of a chiral catalyst with an aldehyde, forming optically active / -nitro alcohols [122], The / -nitro alcohols are valuable intermediates in the synthesis of a broad variety of chiral building blocks, e.g. / -amino alcohols. A highly efficient asymmetric catalytic nitroaldol reaction has been developed by the Shibasaki group, who used multifunctional lanthanoid-based complexes as chiral catalysts [122-125],... 

Cobb, A.J.A., Shaw, D.M., Longbottom, D.A., Gold, J.B. and Ley, S.V. (2005) Organocatalysis with proline derivatives improved catalysts for the asymmetric Mannich, nitro-Michael and aldol reactions. Org. Biomol. Chem., 3, 84. 

List B, Lerner RA, Barbas CF 3rd (2000) Proline-catalyzed direct asymmetric aldol reactions. J Am Chem Soc 122 2395-2396 List B, Pojarliev P, Martin HJ (2001) Efficient proline-catalyzed Michael additions of unmodified ketones to nitro olefins. Org Lett 3 2423-2425 List B, Pojarliev P, Biller WT, Martin HJ (2002) The proline-catalyzed direct asymmetric three-component Mannich reaction scope, optimization, and application to the highly enantioselective synthesis of 1,2-amino alcohols. J Am Chem Soc 124 827-833... 

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