Reduction of substituted 1,10-phenanthrolines as a route to rigid chiral benzimidazolylidenes
摘要:
Variously substituted 1,10-phenanthrolines are reduced to octahydrophenanthrolines in moderate to good yields with NaBH3CN in acetic acid/methanol. The exact solvent composition is important to avoid the formation of tetrahydrophenanthrolines and N-alkylated by-products, and to optimize the formation of octabydrophenanthrolines. Resolution of a racemic reduction product gives an enantiornerically pure C-2-symmetric diamine from which the corresponding rigid benzimidazolylidene is prepared, whereas reduction of chiral phenanthrolines derived from bicyclic ketones affords diastercomerically pure diamines, which may also be converted to benzimidazolylidenes. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Reduction of substituted 1,10-phenanthrolines as a route to rigid chiral benzimidazolylidenes
摘要:
Variously substituted 1,10-phenanthrolines are reduced to octahydrophenanthrolines in moderate to good yields with NaBH3CN in acetic acid/methanol. The exact solvent composition is important to avoid the formation of tetrahydrophenanthrolines and N-alkylated by-products, and to optimize the formation of octabydrophenanthrolines. Resolution of a racemic reduction product gives an enantiornerically pure C-2-symmetric diamine from which the corresponding rigid benzimidazolylidene is prepared, whereas reduction of chiral phenanthrolines derived from bicyclic ketones affords diastercomerically pure diamines, which may also be converted to benzimidazolylidenes. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.