Silyl anions chiral

A chiral cationic rhodium complex has been shown to catalyse the enantioselective conjugate addition of silyl anion equivalents to cyclic a,fl-unsaturated ketones and esters, thus providing a facile access to chiral organosilicon compounds.247... 

When all substituents are different, a chiral center is present on silicon. Enantiomeric silyl anions are generated in three ways, with retention of configuration for the configurational stability of silyllithium, see Section III-B. 

Reactions of methyllithium or methyl Grignard reagents resulted in the formation of optically active silyl anions which were characterized after hydrolysis and reaction with allyl bromide (243). The observed overall predominant retention of configuration provides evidence for the optical stability of silyl anions. Their first preparation was reported by Sommer and Mason (245) and they appeared configurationally less stable than the chiral germyl anions (31). 

Evidence for the configurational stability of chiral silyl anions was reported. Silylme-tallic compounds90 have a considerably enhanced optical stability relative to acyclic alkyllithium compounds. An NMR study of di-isopropylphenylsilyllithium showed that the isopropyl methyl groups are anisochronous up to 185 °C, indicating that the barrier to inversion at silicon in the silyl anion is greater than 24 kcalmol-1 91. 

Sjmtbetic routes for the preparation of the chiral silyl anions. 

Silyl Anion Equivalent. Silylboronic ester 1 reacts as a silyl anion equivalent in the presence of transition metal catalysts. Cyclic and acyclic a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds serve as good acceptors of the silyl groups in conjugate addition of 1 catalyzed by rhodium and copper complexes, giving /3-silylcarbonyl compounds (eq 30). The silylation takes place with high enan-tioselectivity when Rh/(5)-BINAP or Cu/chiral NHC catalysts are used. Three-component coupling of 1, a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, and aldehydes affords 8-hydroxyketone stereoselec-tively in the presence of a copper catalyst (eq 31). The copper enolate 32 is presumed as an intermediate of the reaction. 

Deprotection of 2,2-disubstituted-l,3-dithiolanes to give carbonyl compounds can be achieved using Oxone with KBr in aq. MeCN <06TL8559> and a review of silylated heterocycles as formyl anion equivalents includes reference to 64 <06CC4881>. A method for transformation of propargylic dithiolanes 43 into tetrasubstituted furans has been reported <06SL1209> and Michael addition of enolates to the chiral dithiolane dioxide 65 takes place... 

Numbers of reactions have been developed by utilizing the strong affinity of the fluoride anion to the silicon atom. In this context, the use of chiral non-racemic ammonium fluorides137 41 43 751 for asymmetric silyl mediated reactions will be further investigated in future. 

Scheldt and co-workers have reported the apphcation of silyl-protected thiazoUum carbinols as stoichiometric carbonyl anions for the intermolecnlar acylation of nilroalkenes [89]. While predominantly a discussion of racemic chemistry, a singular example illustrates that the newly formed stereocenter may be controlled by the addition of an equivalent of a chiral thionrea 136 with the desired product 135 formed in 74% ee Eq. 13. 

In 1998 the groups of Jprgensen and Helmchen reported the preparation of the chiral silyl cationic salt 2 (Scheme 3) [30]. This was the first time that a chiral silyl cation was used as a catalyst in an enantioselective reaction, hi order to ensure that the silyl salt had a high reactivity, the almost chemically inert and non-coordinating anions tetrakis[pentafluorophenyl]borate [TPFPB] and tetrakis[3,5-bis (trifluor-omethyl)phenyl]borate [TFPB] were chosen as counter anions. 

B. Asymmetric Deprotonation Followed by Silylation of the Chiral Anion. 262... 

B. Asymmetric deprotonation followed by silylation of the chiral anion... 

Fu has demonstrated that acetate anion attack on the silicon center of the silyl ketene acetal, as well as formation of an acyl pyridinium salt, contribute towards the promotion of these reactions [62]. Additionally, silyl ketene imines have also been shown to participate in analogous asymmetric C-acylation reactions to yield chiral quaternary nitriles, and this method was employed as a key step in the synthesis of verapamil [65]. 

Silyl enol ethers react with aldehydes in the presence of chiral boranes or other additives " to give aldols with good asymmetric induction (see the Mukaiyama aldol reaction in 16-35). Chiral boron enolates have been used. Since both new stereogenic centers are formed enantioselectively, this kind of process is called double asymmetric synthesis Where both the enolate derivative and substrate were achiral, carrying out the reaction in the presence of an optically active boron compound ° or a diamine coordinated with a tin compound ° gives the aldol product with excellent enantioselectivity for one stereoisomer. Formation of the magnesium enolate anion of a chiral amide, adds to aldehydes to give the alcohol enantioselectively. 

I n 1993, the first cinchona-catalyzed enantioselective Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction of benzaldehyde with the silyl enol ether 2 of 2-methyl-l -tetralone derivatives was achieved by Shioiri and coworkers by using N-benzylcinchomnium fluoride (1, 12 mol%) [2]. However, the observed ee values and diastereoselectivities were low to moderate (66-72% for erythro-3 and 13-30% ee for threo-3) (Scheme 8.1). The observed chiral inductioncan be explained by the dual activation mode ofthe catalyst, that is, the fluoride anion acts as a nucleophilic activator of the silyl enol ethers and the chiral ammonium cation activates the carbonyl group of benzaldehyde. Further investigations on the Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction with the same catalyst were tried later by the same [ 3 ] and another research group [4], but in all cases the enantioselectivities were too low for synthetic applications. 

In 2006, Scheidt and coworkers [44] reported the first enantioselective direct nucleophilic addition ofthe silylated thiazolium salt 148, a precursor of the equivalent acyl anion, to nitroalkene 149 in the presence of tetramethylammonium fluoride (TMAF) and stoichiometric amounts of quinine-based thiourea 81b, producing the chiral [3-nitroketone 150 in 67% yield and with 74% ee (Scheme 9.51). The acyl anion equivalent 152 can be generated by the desilylation of 148 with TMAF, followed by the 1,2-H shift of the resulting alkoxide 151. The observed asymmetric induction indicates that there is a strong interaction between the thiourea and the nitroalkene during the carbonyl anion addition step. 

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