Schiff bases oxidation catalysts

Complete conversions and good enantiomeric excesses (64-100%) were achieved in the asymmetric epoxidation of chromenes and indene using UHP as oxidant and a novel dimeric homochiral Mn(III) Schiff base as catalyst. The reactions were carried out in the presence of carboxylate salts and nitrogen and oxygen coordinating co-catalysts. However, the epoxidation of styrene unfortunately proceeded with incomplete conversion and only 23% ee. Modification of the catalyst and use of pyridine 7V-oxide as cocatalyst allowed improvement of the ee to 61% (Scheme 18). ... 

Bohn s VO(acac)2/chiral Schiff base oxidation system was recently adapted by Ellman in the large-scale synthesis of a-branched amines [47]. Here, fert-butyl disulfide 26 was oxidized to the corresponding thiosulfinate 27 employing hg-and 23b. The oxidation was carried out using as httle as 1 mol % of catalyst giving fert-butyl ferf-butanethiosulfinate (27) with 91% ee (Eq.3). Further transformations of the thiosulfinate led to optically active amines in high yields. 

Schiff bases have been synthesized in an amazing structural variety. This flexibility has been used also to design zeolite based oxidation catalysts. Though initially limited TON... 

The copper-catalyzed cyclopropanation of alkenes with diazoalkanes is a particularly important synthetic reaction (277). The reaction of styrene and ethyl diazoacetate catalyzed by bis[/V-(7 )- or (5)-a-phenyl-ethylsalicylaldiminato]Cu(II), reported in 1966, gives the cyclopropane adducts in less than 10% ee and was the first example of transition metal-catalyzed enantioselective reaction of prochiral compounds in homogeneous phase (Scheme 90) (272). Later systematic screening of the chiral Schiff base-Cu catalysts resulted in the innovative synthesis of a series of important cyclopropane derivatives such as chrysanthemic acid, which was produced in greater than 90% ee (Scheme 90) (273). The catalyst precursor has a dimeric Cu(II) structure, but the actual catalyst is in the Cu(I) oxidation state (274). (S)-2,2-Dimethylcyclopropanecar-boxylic acid thus formed is now used for commercial synthesis of ci-lastatin, an excellent inhibitor of dehydropeptidase-I that increases the in vivo stability of the caibapenem antibiotic imipenem (Sumitomo Chemical Co. and Merck Sharp Dohme Co.). Attempted enantioselective cyclopropanation using 1,1-diphenylethylene and ethyl diazoacetate has met with limited success (211b). A related Schiff base ligand achieved the best result, 66% optical yield, in the reaction of 1,1-diphenylethylene and ethyl diazoacetate (275). 

A more recent alternative approach, developed by Jacobsen and co-workers, concerns the catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins using cheap NaOCl as oxidant in the presence of Mn complexes of chiral Schiff bases as catalysts, the so-called salene (Fig. 3-4). Values of 97% e.e. have been achieved using cis-disubstituted or trisubstituted alkenes. Equation 3-15 describes the Jacobsen epoxidation of olefins schematically. 

Asymmetric secondary alcohol oxidation can also be performed with other metal complexes, in particular Toste showed that traditional Schiff based V catalysts prepared in situ from the corresponding ligand and VO(0-/Pr)3 allowed the kinetic resolution of a-hydroxy esters in acetone under mild experimental conditions and with 1 atm of O2 (Scheme 23.36). The reaction works well for both henzyUc and... 

Pd-cataly2ed reactions of butadiene are different from those catalyzed by other transition metal complexes. Unlike Ni(0) catalysts, neither the well known cyclodimerization nor cyclotrimerization to form COD or CDT[1,2] takes place with Pd(0) catalysts. Pd(0) complexes catalyze two important reactions of conjugated dienes[3,4]. The first type is linear dimerization. The most characteristic and useful reaction of butadiene catalyzed by Pd(0) is dimerization with incorporation of nucleophiles. The bis-rr-allylpalladium complex 3 is believed to be an intermediate of 1,3,7-octatriene (7j and telomers 5 and 6[5,6]. The complex 3 is the resonance form of 2,5-divinylpalladacyclopentane (1) and pallada-3,7-cyclononadiene (2) formed by the oxidative cyclization of butadiene. The second reaction characteristic of Pd is the co-cyclization of butadiene with C = 0 bonds of aldehydes[7-9] and CO jlO] and C = N bonds of Schiff bases[ll] and isocyanate[12] to form the six-membered heterocyclic compounds 9 with two vinyl groups. The cyclization is explained by the insertion of these unsaturated bonds into the complex 1 to generate 8 and its reductive elimination to give 9. 

Reactions with Ammonia and Amines. Acetaldehyde readily adds ammonia to form acetaldehyde—ammonia. Diethyl amine [109-87-7] is obtained when acetaldehyde is added to a saturated aqueous or alcohoHc solution of ammonia and the mixture is heated to 50—75°C in the presence of a nickel catalyst and hydrogen at 1.2 MPa (12 atm). Pyridine [110-86-1] and pyridine derivatives are made from paraldehyde and aqueous ammonia in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures (62) acetaldehyde may also be used but the yields of pyridine are generally lower than when paraldehyde is the starting material. The vapor-phase reaction of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and ammonia at 360°C over oxide catalyst was studied a 49% yield of pyridine and picolines was obtained using an activated siHca—alumina catalyst (63). Brown polymers result when acetaldehyde reacts with ammonia or amines at a pH of 6—7 and temperature of 3—25°C (64). Primary amines and acetaldehyde condense to give Schiff bases CH2CH=NR. The Schiff base reverts to the starting materials in the presence of acids. 

Butyne-l,4-diol has been hydrogenated to the 2-butene-diol (97), mesityl oxide to methylisobutylketone (98), and epoxides to alcohols (98a). The rhodium complex and a related solvated complex, RhCl(solvent)(dppb), where dppb = l,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, have been used to hydrogenate the ketone group in pyruvates to give lactates (99) [Eq. (15)], and in situ catalysts formed from rhodium(I) precursors with phosphines can also catalyze the hydrogenation of the imine bond in Schiff bases (100) (see also Section III,A,3). 

Five-coordinate aluminum alkyls are useful as oxirane-polymerization catalysts. Controlled polymerization of lactones102 and lactides103 has been achieved with Schiff base aluminum alkyl complexes. Ketiminate-based five-coordinate aluminum alkyl (OCMeCHCMeNAr)AlEt2 were found to be active catalyst for the ring-opening polymerization of -caprolactone.88 Salen aluminum alkyls have also been found to be active catalysts for the preparation of ethylene carbonate from sc C02 and ethylene oxide.1 4 Their catalytic activity is markedly enhanced in the presence of a Lewis base or a quaternary salt. 

One of the most useful classes of metal and phase transfer catalyzed reactions are carbonylation reactions. Cobalt carbonyl is a valuable catalyst for such processes(1 ). When used in conjunction with methyl iodide, acetylcobalt carbonyl [CH3C0Co(C0) ] is generated and can undergo addition to various unsaturated substrates including alkynes and Schiff bases. In addition, one can add this species to styrene oxides to give the enol... 

Very reeently Kureshy et al. [98] further reported non-salen chiral Schiff base derived Ti complexes as eatalysts 70, 71 (Figure 23) in the KR of meso-siiXheae oxide, cyclohexene oxide, cyelooetene oxide and cA-butene oxide with anilines. The study deliberated upon the role of several ehiral and achiral additives with these catalysts to give chiral y9-amino alcohols with high enantioselectivity ee, >99%) in excellent yield (>99%) at 0 °C in lOh. Unlike the monomerie version 72 the chiral catalyst 70 used in this study was recoverable and recyclable several times with retention of its performance (Table 10)... 

A solid-phase sulfur oxidation catalyst has been described in which the chiral ligand is structurally related to Schiff-base type compounds (see also below). A 72% ee was found using Ti(OPr-i)4, aqueous H2O2 and solid-supported hgand 91 . More recently, a heterogeneous catalytic system based on WO3, 30% H2O2 and cinchona alkaloids has been reported for the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and kinetic resolution of racemic sulfoxides. In this latter case 90% ee was obtained in the presence of 92 as chiral mediator. ... 

A phosgene-free route to aromatic isocyanates, such as M DI and TDI, was reported by Fernandez et al. [42] (Scheme 5.7) According to the patent, the one-pot synthesis involves the use of an immobilized Schiff base type of ligand catalyst that facilitates the oxidative carbonylation of aromatic amines to the corresponding isocyanates. However, 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE), 1,2-dichlorobenzene, and carbon monoxide were used in this process, so this would not be a totally environmentally friendly process even if these reagents could be recycled and reused. 

The Schiff base-oxovanadium(IV) complex formulated as 19 was found to catalyze the asymmetric oxidation of sulfides with cumene hydroperoxide (Scheme 6C.8) [70]. Various aryl methyl sulfides were used for this process (room temperature in dichloromethane and 0,1 mol equiv. of the catalyst). Chemical yields were excellent, but enantioselectivities were not higher than 40% for the resulting methyl phenyl sulfoxide, Complex 16a, where [Ti] was replaced by VO, was also examined in the oxidation of sulfides, but the reactions gave only racemic sulfoxides [68],... 

The Bolm protocol was recently used by Ellman et al. for the enantioselective oxidation of -butyl disulfide 22 [72], Excellent result was achieved in the formation of thiosulfinate 22 (91% ee, 93% yield) by using catalyst 20 (0.25 mol %) in a 0,5 mmol scale. In spite of extensive screening of chiral Schiff bases related to catalyst 20, better enantioselectivity was not realized. Chiral thiosulfinate 22 is a convenient starting material for the preparation of r-butyl sulfi-namides and t-butyl sulfoxides. Vetter and Berkessel modified the structure of the Schiff base moiety of catalyst 20 by replacing the aryl ring with a 1,l -binaphthyl system [73]. The corresponding vanadium catalyst realized 78% ee in the oxidation of thioanisol, which was better than that attained by the Bolm catalyst (59% ee). 

The first enantiomer-selective polymerization was performed with propylene oxide (172) as a monomer [245], The polymerization was carried out with a ZnEt2/(+)-bor-neol or ZnEt2/(-)-menthol initiator system. The obtained polymer was optically active and the unreacted monomer was rich in (S)-isomer. Various examples are known concerning the polymerization and copolymerization of 172 [246-251 ]. A Schiff base complex 173 has been shown to be an effective catalyst In the polymerization at 60°C, the enantiopurity of the remaining monomer was 9% ee at 50% monomer conversion [250],... 

Sulfamate indan-2-yl ester 145 is oxidized by iodobenzene diacetate to give condensed 1,2,3-oxathiazole di-A-oxides 146 (Equation 35). Various rhodium <2001JA6935, 2004HCA1607>, manganese(m) Schiff base <2005TL5403>, and ruthenium porphyrin <2002AGE3465> catalysts can be used for this transformation. Enantioselective intramolecular amidation is achieved with good yields. 

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