TADDOLates

A chiral titanium complex with 3-cinnamoyl-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one was isolated by Jagensen et al. from a mixture of TiCl 2(0-i-Pr)2 with (2R,31 )-2,3-0-isopropyli-dene-l,l,4,4-tetraphenyl-l,2,3,4-butanetetrol, which is an isopropylidene acetal analog of Narasaka s TADDOL [48]. The structure of this complex was determined by X-ray structure analysis. It has the isopropylidene diol and the cinnamoyloxazolidi-none in the equatorial plane, with the two chloride ligands in apical (trans) position as depicted in the structure A, It seems from this structure that a pseudo-axial phenyl group of the chiral ligand seems to block one face of the coordinated cinnamoyloxazolidinone. On the other hand, after an NMR study of the complex in solution, Di Mare et al, and Seebach et al, reported that the above trans di-chloro complex A is a major component in the solution but went on to propose another minor complex B, with the two chlorides cis to each other, as the most reactive intermediate in this chiral titanium-catalyzed reaction [41b, 49], It has not yet been clearly confirmed whether or not the trans and/or the cis complex are real reactive intermediates (Scheme 1.60). 

I would like to thank Professors E. J. Corey and K. Narasaka for giving me a chance to work with super-reactive chiral catalyst 9 and TADDOL-based chiral titanium catalyst 31, respectively. 

Seeeach et al. also investigated the Ti-TADDOlate-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction, see D. Seeeach, R. Dahinden,... 

A chiral titanium(IV) complex has also been used by Wada et al. for the intermole-cular cycloaddition of ( )-2-oxo-l-phenylsulfonyl-3-alkenes 45 with enol ethers 46 using the TADDOL-TiX2 (X=C1, Br) complexes 48 as catalysts in an enantioselective reaction giving the dihydropyrans 47 as shown in Scheme 4.32 [47]. The reaction depends on the anion of the catalyst and the best yield and enantioselectivity were found for the TADDOL-TiBr2 up to 97% ee of the dihydropyrans 47 was obtained. 

Several titanium(IV) complexes are efficient and reliable Lewis acid catalysts and they have been applied to numerous reactions, especially in combination with the so-called TADDOL (a, a,a, a -tetraaryl-l,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanol) (22) ligands [53-55]. In the first study on normal electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions between nitrones and alkenes, which appeared in 1994, the catalytic reaction of a series of chiral TiCl2-TADDOLates on the reaction of nitrones 1 with al-kenoyloxazolidinones 19 was developed (Scheme 6.18) [56]. These substrates have turned out be the model system of choice for most studies on metal-catalyzed normal electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrones as it will appear from this chapter. When 10 mol% of the catalyst 23a was applied in the reaction depicted in Scheme 6.18 the reaction proceeded to give a yield of up to 94% ee after 20 h. The reaction led primarily to exo-21 and in the best case an endo/ exo ratio of 10 90 was obtained. The chiral information of the catalyst was transferred with a fair efficiency to the substrates as up to 60% ee of one of the isomers of exo3 was obtained [56]. 

In most TiCl2-TADDOLate-catalyzed Diels-Alder and 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions oxazolidinone derivatives are applied as auxiliaries for the alkenoyl moiety in order to obtain the favorable bidentate coordination of the substrate to the catalyst... 

In a more recent study on 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions the use of succi-nimide instead of the oxazolidinone auxiliary was introduced (Scheme 6.19) [58]. The succinimide derivatives 24a,b are more reactive towards the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction with nitrone la and the reaction proceeds in the absence of a catalyst. In the presence of TiCl2-TADDOLate catalyst 23a (5 mol%) the reaction of la with 24a proceeds at -20 to -10 °C, and after conversion of the unstable succinimide adduct into the amide derivative, the corresponding product 25 was obtained in an endojexo ratio of <5 >95. Additionally, the enantioselectivity of the reaction of 72% ee is also an improvement compared to the analogous reaction of the oxazolidinone derivative 19. Similar improvements were obtained in reactions of other related nitrones with 24a and b. 

Tab. 6.2 Application of TiX2 between la and 19a TADDOLate as catalyst for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction...

The TiX2-TADD0Late-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar q cloaddition reactions were extended to include an acrylate derivative [66]. In the absence of a catalyst, the reaction between nitrones 1 and acryloyl oxazolidinone 19b proceeded to give a mixture all eight regio-and stereoisomers (Scheme 6.23). However, application of in this case only 10 mol% of Ti(OTs)2-TADDOLate 23d as catalyst for the reaction of various nitrones 1 with alkene 19b, led to complete regioselectivity and high endo selectivity in the reaction and the endo products 21 were obtained with 48-70% ee (Scheme 6.23) [66]. 

Seebach et al., who first developed the TADDOL ligands [53, 67], have also developed a number of polymer- and dendrimer-bound TiCl2-TADDOLate catalysts derived from the monomeric TADDOLs [68]. Application of 10mol% of this type of catalysts, derived from polymers and dendrimers of 27 and 28, respectively, in the... 

The normal electron-demand principle of activation of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrones has also been tested for the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of alkenes with diazoalkanes [71]. The reaction of ethyl diazoacetate 33 with 19b in the presence of a TiCl2-TADDOLate catalyst 23a afforded the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition product 34 in good yield and with 30-40% ee (Scheme 6.26). 

It has been more difficult to obtain the exo isomer in the above described reaction. Application of the TiCl2-TADDOLate complex induced fair exo selectivity and up to 60% ee. This was improved by the application of succinimide as an auxiliary for the alkene. This approach has been the only entry to a highly exo selective reaction and up to 72% ee of the exo isomer was obtained. In the Pd(BF4)2-BI-NAP-catalyzed reaction which gave mixtures of the endo and exo isomers, high ee of up to 93% was in a single case obtained for the minor exo isomer. In one case it was also observed that a Zn(OTf)2-BOX complex induced some exo selectivity and up to 82% ee of the exo isomer. 

It was our delight that the reactions catalyzed were activated even at -40 °C in the presence of a catalytic amount of achiral titanium catalysts (10 mol%) to afford the desilylacetylated 2-pyrazoline cycloadduct Na, l-acetyl-4-methyl-5-(2-oxo-3-oxazolidinylcarbonyl)-2-pyrazoline, in high yields as the far major product (Scheme 7.35). Although some chiral titanium TADDOlate catalysts were successfully applied to activate these reactions leading to the moderate enantioselectivities (up to 55% ee), the chemical yields were not satisfactory. 

A frequently used catalytic system used for the catalytic enantioselective carbo-Diels-Alder reaction of N-alkenoyl-l,3-oxazolidin-2-one 4 is the chiral TADDOL-Ti(IV) 6 [14] complexes (Scheme 8.2 see Ghapter 1 in this book, by Hayashi) [15]. 

An X-ray structure of the complex formed between 3-cinnamoyl-l,3-oxazohdin-2-one and a chiral TADDOL-Ti(IV) complex (see Chapters 1 and 6 by Hayashi and Gothelf, respectively) has been characterized [16]. The structure of this complex has the chiral TADDOLate and cinnamoyloxazohdinone ligands coordinated to titanium in the equatorial plane and the two chloride ligands in the axial plane and is similar to A in Fig. 8.8. The chiral discrimination was proposed to be due to... 

Fig, 8,9 The calculated model complexes formed between 3-acroloyl-l, 3-oxazolidin-2-one and an achiral analog of TADDOL-TiCl2,... 

TADDOL 36, 126, 226, 229 TADDOlate 281 TADDOLTi(IV) 309 TADDOL-TiX2 178, 229 a,a,a, a -tebaaryl-l,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimetha-nol 226... 

A remarkable number of new BINOL- and TADDOL-based diiral ligands for tlie copper-catalyzed conjugate addition of R Zn reagents have recently been introduced, witli botli monodentate and bidentate ligands having proven capable of inducing bigli enanboselectivities [6, 11, 12, 46]. 

Scheme 7.13. TADDOL-baced phocphoramldlte llgandc In the catalytic 1,4-addition.

In total, 29 pbospborus-containing chiral ligands of various structures were screened under tlie optimized ji-selective condhions, but most of tlieni gave little or no chiral induction. Hie four ligands 38a-d, all derived from i-)-TADDOL, depicted in Fig. 8.4 gave tts in excess of 3096 in the reaction between etliyl magnesium bromide and cinnamyl cliloride. 

Seebaoh and ooworkers have developed enandoselecdve oonjugate addidons of primary dialkylzino reagents to 2-aryl- and 2-heteroaryl-nitroalkenes mediated by dtanium-TADDO-Lates fEq 4 90) TADDOLs and their derivadves are excellent ohii i] auxiLianes ... 

The exo selecdvity of the TiCL-TADDOLate-catalyzed 1,3-thpolar cycloadthdon is improved by the tise of sticcinimide instead of oxazoiidinone as attxiliary for the a,fi-imsatitrated carbonyl moiety (Eq. 8.55). A strong bidentate coo rdinadon of the alkenyl moiety to the metal catalyst is impcrtant in these re... 

TADDOL = a,a,a, a -tetraaryl-4,5-dimethoxy-l,3-dioxolane Jakaki, J.-i. Schweizer, W.B. Seebach. D. Helv. Chim. Acta, 1993, 76, 2654... 

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