Samarium complexes with heterobimetallics

The heterobimetallic complex [(CsMe4Et)2Sm(/r-Me)AlMe3]2 is easily formed by the reaction of the THF adduct of bis[(ethyltetramethylcyclopentadienyl)]samarium(n) with AlMe3 (Scheme 239).585... 

Some of the metal-based catalysts used in the asymmetric hydrophosphonylation of aldehydes (see Section 6.4) can also be applied to the phosphonylation of imines. For instance, Shibasaki s heterobimetallic BINOL complexes work well for the catalytic asymmetric hydrophosphonylation of imines. In this case lanthanum-potassium-BINOL complexes (6.138) have been found to provide the highest enantioselectivities for the hydrophosphonylation of acyclic imines (6.139). The hydrophosphonylation of cyclic imines using heterobimetallic lanthanoid complexes has been reported. Ytterbium and samarium complexes in combination with cyclic phosphites have shown the best results in the cases investigated so far. For example, 3-thiazoline (6.140) is converted into the phosphonate (6.141) with 99% ee using ytterbium complex (6.142) and dimethyl phosphite (6.108). The aluminium(salalen) complex (6.110) developed by Katsuki and coworkers also functions as an effective catalyst for the hydrophosphonylation of both aromatic and aliphatic aldimines providing the resulting a-aminophosphonate with 81-91% ee. ... 

Subsequent reaction of 91 with the homoleptic samarium aryloxide Sm(OC6H3tBu2-2,6)3 according to Scheme 29 gave the novel heterobimetallic Li/Sm silsesquioxane complex 92, which was structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction. 

Similar treatment of the dimeric arylimido complex [Sm(NHAr)3]2 (Ar = 2,6-Pr 2C6H3) with trimethylaluminum resulted in an unusual imido-bridged heterobimetallic samarium-aluminum complex (Scheme 242).795,864... 

The LLB type catalysts were also successfully applied in the asymmetric ni-troaldol reaction of quite unreactive a,a-difluoro aldehydes. However, catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reaction of a broad variety of a,a-difluoro aldehydes proceeded satisfactorily when using the heterobimetallic asymmetric catalysts with modified, 6,6 -disubstituted BINOL ligands [22]. The best results were obtained with the samarium (III) complex (5 mol%) generated from 6,6 -bis[(tri-ethylsilyl)ethynyl BINOL with enantioselectivities up to 95% ee. The ( -configuration of one representative nitroaldol adduct showed that the nitronate reacted preferentially on the Si face of aldehyde in the presence of (P)-LLB (20 mol% 74% yield 55% ee). It is noteworthy that the enantiotopic face selection for a,a-difluoro aldehydes is reverse to that for nonfluorinated aldehydes. The stereoselectivity for a,a -difluoro aldehydes is identical with that of P-oxa-aldehydes, suggesting that the fluorine atoms at the a-position have a great influence on enantioface selection. 

As expected, suitable selection of a metal combination for each targeted reaction was important to achieve high stereoselectivity. For a sy -selective nitro-Maimich-type reaction, a heterobimetallic complex prepared from Cu(OAc)2, Sm(0-/Pr)3, and dinucleating Schiff base la was the best [12]. Other metal combinations resulted in much lower selectivity. Either Cu or Sm alone also resulted in poor reactivity and selectivity. Thus, both Cu and Sm are essential for high catalytic activity and selectivity. After optimization studies, the addition of achiral phenol source and the use of oxo-samarium alkoxide, Sm50(0-jPr)i3, with a well-ordered structure, gave the superior reactivity and stereoselectivity. Under the optimized reaction cmiditions, 1-10 mol% of the Cu/Sm catalyst promoted asymmetric... 

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