Tartaric acid derived 1,2-diols ligands

An enantioselective dibromination of cinnamic alcohols (9) has been developed, which involves a combination of dibromomalonate as the bromonium source, a titanium bromide species as the bromide source, and a tartaric acid-derived diol (20 mol%). Ligand acceleration has been observed in this transformation, which affords the dibromides (11) with <85% ee transition state (10) has been proposed. ... 

In general, the chiral hydride reagent is generated in situ by reaction of a suitable metal hydride with chiral ligands such as alkaloids , sugar derivatives , amino alcohol chiral oxazolines tartaric acid derivatives chiral amines and chiral diols... 

Diethyl tartrate (compared to various tartaric acid derivatives) still remains the best ligand for the enantioselective oxidation of sulfides, as exemplified by the oxidation of methyl p-tolyl sulfide [49]. Yamamoto et al found that DET can be replaced by diols (30) or (31) in the Kagan reagent, giving sulfoxides of opposite... 

The chiral diol 17 derived from tartaric acid is exploited in the titanium-catalyzed asymmetric pinacol coupling in the presence of Zn and MesSiCl to give the corresponding diol in 11-71 ee % [44], The chiral salen ligands 18-20 are used in the titanium-catalyzed enantioselective coupling reaction, which achieves the higher selectivity [45-47]. The chromium complex with TBOxH (21) efficiently catalyzes the asymmetric coupling reaction of both aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes [48]. 

The Lewis acid catalyst 53 is now referred to as the Narasaka catalyst. This catalyst can be generated in situ from the reaction of dichlorodiisopropoxy-titanium and a diol chiral ligand derived from tartaric acid. This compound can also catalyze [2+2] cycloaddition reactions with high enantioselectivity. For example, as depicted in Scheme 5-20, in the reaction of alkenes bearing al-kylthio groups (ketene dithioacetals, alkenyl sulfides, and alkynyl sulfides) with electron-deficient olefins, the corresponding cyclobutane or methylenecyclobu-tene derivatives can be obtained in high enantiomeric excess.18... 

Bidentate chiral auxiliaries have since been examined. While camphane-2,3-diol and (5-binaphthol gave disappointing results, tartrate-derived (TADDOL) ligands were found to be very promising as chiral inductors [44]. Particularly interesting results were obtained by using complex 21, readily available from natural (P,J )-(+)-tartaric acid (Scheme 13.21). 

Lewis acid-promoted asymmetric addition of dialkylzincs to aldehydes is also an acceptable procedure for the preparation of chiral secondary alcohol. Various chiral titanium complexes are highly enantioselective catalysts [4]. C2-Symmet-ric disulfonamide, chiral diol (TADDOL) derived from tartaric acid, and chiral thiophosphoramidate are efficient chiral ligands. C2-Symmetric chiral diol 10, readily prepared from 1-indene by Brown s asymmetric hydroboration, is also a good chiral source (Scheme 2) [17], Even a simple a-hydroxycarboxylic acid 11 can achieve a good enantioselectivity [18]. 

Seebach et al. have comprehensively examined the use of a chiral diol (TAD-DOL) derived from tartaric acid as a chiral ligand [22]. The titanium-TADDOL system also catalyzes the asymmetric addition of diethylzinc to various aldehydes (Scheme 8) [23,24]. This system is applicable to the alkylation of various... 

In recent years, TADDOL and its analogues have found increasing use in organic chemistry these diols, derived from tartaric acid, were already successfully applied in catalysis as chiral ligands in metal complexes, furthermore, some of their syntheses were already optimized and their versatility was appreciated. ... 

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