Asymmetric sulfide

Terminal epoxides of high enantiopurity are among the most important chiral building blocks in enantioselective synthesis, because they are easily opened through nucleophilic substitution reactions. Furthermore, this procedure can be scaled to industrial levels with low catalyst loading. Chiral metal salen complexes have also been successfully applied to the asymmetric hydroxylation of C H bonds, asymmetric oxidation of sulfides, asymmetric aziridination of alkenes, and the asymmetric alkylation of keto esters to name a few. 

Styrenes—see Hydroxystyrenes Substituent effects, additivity of 263, 899 Sugars—see 1-Acetylsugars, Cahxsugars Sulfides, asymmetric oxidation of 699 Sulfinyl derivatives, formation from thiacalixarenes 1415... 

Gammon JJ, O Brien P, Kelly B (2009) Regioselective lithiation of silyl phosphine sulfides asymmetric synthesis of P-stereogenic compounds. Org Lett 11 5022-5025... 

Researchers at Du Pont used hydroquinone asymmetrically substituted with chloro, methyl, or phenyl substituents and swivel or nonlinear bent substituted phenyl molecules such as 3,4- or 4,4 -disubstituted diphenyl ether, sulfide, or ketone monomers. Eor example,... 

Among chiral dialkylboranes, diisopinocampheylborane (8) is the most important and best-studied asymmetric hydroborating agent. It is obtained in both enantiomeric forms from naturally occurring a-pinene. Several procedures for its synthesis have been developed (151—153). The most convenient one, providing product of essentially 100% ee, involves the hydroboration of a-pinene with borane—dimethyl sulfide in tetrahydrofuran (154). Other chiral dialkylboranes derived from terpenes, eg, 2- and 3-carene (155), limonene (156), and longifolene (157,158), can also be prepared by controlled hydroboration. A more tedious approach to chiral dialkylboranes is based on the resolution of racemates. /n j -2,5-Dimethylborolane, which shows excellent enantioselectivity in the hydroboration of all principal classes of prochiral alkenes except 1,1-disubstituted terminal double bonds, has been... 

Sulfonyloxazindines as aprollc neutral oxidizing reagents oxidainn of amines, sulfides, selenides and asymmetric oxidation. 

Since cbiral sulfur ylides racemize rapidly, they are generally prepared in situ from chiral sulfides and halides. The first example of asymmetric epoxidation was reported in 1989, using camphor-derived chiral sulfonium ylides with moderate yields and ee (< 41%) Since then, much effort has been made in tbe asymmetric epoxidation using sucb a strategy without a significant breakthrough. In one example, the reaction between benzaldehyde and benzyl bromide in the presence of one equivalent of camphor-derived sulfide 47 furnished epoxide 48 in high diastereoselectivity (trans cis = 96 4) with moderate enantioselectivity in the case of the trans isomer (56% ee). ... 

Solladie-Cavallo s group used Eliel s oxathiane 1 (derived from pulegone) in asymmetric epoxidation (Scheme 1.3) [1]. This sulfide was initially benzylated to form a single diastereomer of the sulfonium salt 2. Epoxidation was then carried out at low temperature with the aid of sodium hydride to furnish diaryl epoxides 3 with high enantioselectivities, and with recovery of the chiral sulfide 1. 

The Aggarwal group has used chiral sulfide 7, derived from camphorsulfonyl chloride, in asymmetric epoxidation [4]. Firstly, they prefonned the salt 8 from either the bromide or the alcohol, and then formed the ylide in the presence of a range of carbonyl compounds. This process proved effective for the synthesis of aryl-aryl, aryl-heteroaryl, aryl-alkyl, and aryl-vinyl epoxides (Table 1.2, Entries 1-5). 

The first attempt at a catalytic asymmetric sulfur ylide epoxidation was by Fur-ukawa s group [5]. The catalytic cycle was formed by initial alkylation of a sulfide (14), followed by deprotonation of the sulfonium salt 15 to form an ylide 16 and... 

Table 1.2 Application of the chiral sulfide 7 in asymmetric epoxidations.

Table 1.5 Use of a range of tosylhydrazone salts in catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of benzaldehyde. Na 1 mol% Rh2(OAc)4 V 0 5-20 mol% sulfide 7 hi o Ar ...

The big difference between the extent of asymmetric induction on the addition to a prostereogenic carbonyl group of simple carbanions a to a chiral sulfoxide on the one hand and enolates of sulfinyl esters on the other, can be attributed to the capacity of the ester function to chelate magnesium in the transition states and intermediates. The results already described for the addition of chiral thioacetal monosulfoxide to aldehydes (see Section 1.3.6.5.) underscore the importance of other functions, e.g., sulfide, for the extent of asymmetric induction. 

Abbott and coworkers229 found that nucleophilic addition of amines to a, p-unsaturated sulfoxide gave asymmetrically induced adducts. For example, treatment of (R)-(—)-cis-propenyl p-tolyl sulfoxide 184 with piperidine in methanol gave a quantitative mixture of the diastereomeric adduct 185. Reduction of this mixture gave (Rs)-(Sc)-2-piperidinopropyl p-tolyl sulfide 186 in 74% optical yield, suggesting that the amines attack from the opposite side of the bulky aryl group at the transition state, as shown above (Figure 6). 

Davis and coworkers40 have developed use of diastereomerically pure 2-sulfonyl and 2-sulfamyloxaziridines for asymmetric oxidation of sulfides into sulfoxides (equation 7). The best results (using the sulfamyloxaziridines) range from 38 to 68% enantiomeric purity of the resultant sulfoxides. The structural diversity of such substituted oxaziridines, their... 

Extensive studies of stereoselective polymerization of epoxides were carried out by Tsuruta et al.21 s. Copolymerization of a racemic mixture of propylene oxide with a diethylzinc-methanol catalyst yielded a crystalline polymer, which was resolved into optically active polymers216 217. Asymmetric selective polymerization of d-propylene oxide from a racemic mixture occurs with asymmetric catalysts such as diethyzinc- (+) bomeol218. This reaction is explained by the asymmetric adsorption of monomers onto the enantiomorphic catalyst site219. Furukawa220 compared the selectivities of asymmetric catalysts composed of diethylzinc amino acid combinations and attributed the selectivity to the bulkiness of the substituents in the amino acid. With propylene sulfide, excellent asymmetric selective polymerization was observed with a catalyst consisting of diethylzinc and a tertiary-butyl substituted a-glycol221,222. ... 

The oxidation of heteroatoms and, in particular, the conversion of sulfides to asymmetric sulfoxides has continued to be a highly active field in biocatalysis. In particular, the diverse biotransformations at sulfur have received the majority of attention in the area of enzyme-mediated heteroatom oxidation. This is particularly due to the versatile applicability of sulfoxides as chiral auxiliaries in a variety of transformations coupled with facile protocols for the ultimate removal [187]. 

For a review of the synthetic uses of 3-keto sulfoxides, sulfones, and sulfides, see Trost, B.M. Chem. Rev., 1978, 78, 363. For a review of asymmetric synthesis with chiral sulfoxides, see Solladie, G. Synthesis, 1981, 185. 

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