Ruthenium catalysts Pybox

Asymmetric epoxidation of olefins with ruthenium catalysts based either on chiral porphyrins or on pyridine-2,6-bisoxazoline (pybox) ligands has been reported (Scheme 6.21). Berkessel et al. reported that catalysts 27 and 28 were efficient catalysts for the enantioselective epoxidation of aryl-substituted olefins (Table 6.10) [139]. Enantioselectivities of up to 83% were obtained in the epoxidation of 1,2-dihydronaphthalene with catalyst 28 and 2,6-DCPNO. Simple olefins such as oct-l-ene reacted poorly and gave epoxides with low enantioselectivity. The use of pybox ligands in ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidations was first reported by Nishiyama et al., who used catalyst 30 in combination with iodosyl benzene, bisacetoxyiodo benzene [PhI(OAc)2], or TBHP for the oxidation of trons-stilbene [140], In their best result, with PhI(OAc)2 as oxidant, they obtained trons-stilbene oxide in 80% yield and with 63% ee. More recently, Beller and coworkers have reexamined this catalytic system, finding that asymmetric epoxidations could be perfonned with ruthenium catalysts 29 and 30 and 30% aqueous hydrogen peroxide (Table 6.11) [141]. Development of the pybox ligand provided ruthenium complex 31, which turned out to be the most efficient catalyst for asymmetric... 

Cornejo et al. [65] reported the first immobihzation of pyridine-bis(oxa-zoline) chiral hgands and the use of the corresponding solid ruthenium complex in the model cyclopropanation test. They synthesized vinyl-PyBOx, the vinyl functionahty being introduced in the fourth position of the pyridine ring. This monomer was further homo- or copolymerized in the presence of styrene and divinylbenzene. The corresponding ruthenium catalysts proved... 

In 1994, asymmetric cydopropanation (ACP) with ruthenium catalysts was first reported by Nishiyama and coworkers [ 19,20] by adoption of their chiral bis(oxazolinyl)pyridine (Pybox) ligands. The reaction profiles of Ru Pybox catalysts reveal extremely high trans selectivity with high enantioselectivity (or di-astereoselectivity) of cyclopropane products at the relatively low reaction temperatures (around 20-50 °C) so far reported for ruthenium catalysts. After 1997,... 

Analogues of chiral Pybox have been reported by other chemists and have been applied to ACP with ruthenium catalysts [37,38]. For example, Pybox substituted by a vinyl group at the 4-position of the pyridine skeleton was polymerized with styrene and divinylbenzene to give immobilized ligands, the ruthenium complexes of which were used to give 85% ee for ACP with EDA and styrene [38]. 

We have demonstrated the ACP reaction catalyzed by Ru Pybox complexes. The catalytic activity of ruthenium complexes is commonly not strong. Nevertheless, ruthenium catalysts activated by newly designed ligands have recently received much attention not only for ACP but also for the nonasymmetric version in terms of coordination chemistry and also industrial curiosity because of high stereoselectivity. We believe that further improvement of the ruthenium catalysts will be in environmental interest to realize industrially applicable process. 

Whilst the Sharpless epoxidation with titanium catalysts and the Jacobsen-Katsuki epoxidation with manganese(salen) complexes are at the forefront of enantioselec-tive epoxidation with metal catalysts, there are alternative systems available. Ruthenium pyridinebisoxazoline (PYBOX) complexes have been independently reported, using either phenyliodinium diacetate or sodium periodate as... 

Various oxidations with [bis(acyloxy)iodo]arenes are also effectively catalyzed by transition metal salts and complexes [726]. (Diacetoxyiodo)benzene is occasionally used instead of iodosylbenzene as the terminal oxidant in biomimetic oxygenations catalyzed by metalloporphyrins and other transition metal complexes [727-729]. Primary and secondary alcohols can be selectively oxidized to the corresponding carbonyl compounds by PhI(OAc)2 in the presence of transition metal catalysts, such as RuCls [730-732], Ru(Pybox)(Pydic) complex [733], polymer-micelle incarcerated ruthenium catalysts [734], chiral-Mn(salen)-complexes [735,736], Mn(TPP)CN/Im catalytic system [737] and (salen)Cr(III) complexes [738]. The epox-idation of alkenes, such as stilbenes, indene and 1-methylcyclohexene, using (diacetoxyiodo)benzene in the presence of chiral binaphthyl ruthenium(III) catalysts (5 mol%) has also been reported however, the enantioselectivity of this reaction was low (4% ee) [739]. 

Considerable variation in stereocontrol can also occur, depending on the catalyst employed (equation 125). In general, the various rhodium(II) carboxylates and palladium catalysts show little stereocontrol in intermolecular cyclopropanation162,175. Rhodium(II) acetamides and copper catalysts favour the formation of more stable trans (anti) cyclopropanes162166. The ruthenium bis(oxazolinyl)pyridine catalyst [Ru(pybox-ip)] provides extremely high trans selectivity in the cyclopropanation of styrene with ethyl diazoacetate43. Furthermore, rhodium or osmium porphyrin complexes 140 are selective catalysts... 

Davies and co-workers have explored the role of ligand conformation in the ruthenium(II)-catalyzed cyclopropanation of styrene.10 This study was based on results reported by Nishiyama in which the catalyst prepared in situ from pyridine-bis(oxazoline) 62 and RuCI2(/>cymene) 2 was found to be highly active and selective in the reaction of ethyl diazoacetate with styrene (66% yield, 84% de, and 89% ee of major trans-isomer).52 Several ligands hindered on the oxazoline ring, including 3, were tested and poorer yields and selectivities were obtained (for 3, 50% yield, 81% de, and 59.5% ee of major trans-isomer), which indicated unfavorable steric interactions between styrene and the Ru(in-pybox) carbene complex (Scheme 17.22).10... 

We came up with the idea of the combination of Pybox and a ruthenium atom, like a bolt from the blue, after screening several metals. The new catalytic system was eventually reported in 1994 [19]. A combination of Pybox ligand with a ruthenium(II) cymene complex exhibits high stereochemical efficiency as an in situ catalyst (Scheme 2). The Ru Pybox-ip in situ catalyst (catalyst A)... 

In 1997 after the introduction of Ru Pybox catalysts, chiral ruthenium porphyrin derivatives were found by three groups to be effective catalysts for ACP... 

Reductive TVansformations. The utility of 1 was first demonstrated in the enantioselective hydrosilylation of ketones. Uniformly high enantioselectivity, yield, and turnover were observed for aromatic (and some aliphatic) ketones when using the complex derived from RhCls (eq 1). Lower enantioselection is observed with t-Bu-pybox or i-Pr-pybox cobalt(I). The derived l Sn(OTf)2 complex gives alcohol products with up to 58% ee using methano-lic polymethylhydrosiloxane. A cationic ruthenium(III) catalyst diverts the usual reduction pathway to enolsilane formation, particularly when the nature of the silane is modified (eq 2). ... 

Following Nishiyama s original discovery of an efficient chiral ligand (full name of Pybox) Pybox [137], many chiral complexes have been synthesized and utihzed as catalysts in a variety of asymmetric transformations. Asymmetric cyclopropanation is one such application which uses the Pybox-Ru catalyst [138]. A polymer-supported version ofthe Pybox-Ru complex 218 was prepared by copolymerization of the chiral monomer 217 with styrene and DVB, followed by treatment of the resulting polymer with [RuCl2(p-cymene)]2 in CH2CI2 (Scheme 3.72) [139]. The corresponding ruthenium complexes catalyzed the cyclopropanation reaction of... 

Nishiyama and coworkers reported that chiral ruthenium(II) bisfoxazoli-nyl)pyridine complexes were efficient catalysts for the asymmetric cyclopropanation reaction of terminal olefins [42,43]. The fra s-RuCl2(pybox-i-Pr)(ethyl-ene) complex 26 was produced from a mixture of optically active bis(2-oxazolin-... 

Extension of the tridentate catalysts to ruthenium through the use of pyridylbis(oxazoline)pyridine (py-box, 10) ligands gives (pybox)RuX2 (ethylene) where X = Cl or I. In hydrocarbon solvents at 25—60 C° at... 

Recently enantioselective oxidative functionalization of C—H bonds was reported. Intramolecular C—H amination proceeds in the presence of ruthenium pybox catalyst with bis(acyloxy)iodobenzene (Eq. (7.88)) [145]. 

Ruthenium complexes serve as catalysts for the cyclopropanation in a manner similar to rhodium complexes. For example, the mthenium complex of bisoxiazohnyl thiophene 260 was examined for asymmetric cyclopropanation (Scheme 1.125) [182]. PyBOX-mthenium catalyst 261 promoted the asymmetric cyclopropanation of diazoacetate and good tran -selectivity was observed (Scheme 1.126) [183]. The cycloadduct was converted to BMS-505130 262, a potential serotonin reuptake inhibitor. 

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