Cobalt-Catalyzed Carbonylative Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Tosylates and Dienes: Stereospecific Synthesis of Dienones at Low Pressure
作者:Brendon T. Sargent、Erik J. Alexanian
DOI:10.1021/jacs.7b07983
日期:2017.9.13
carbonylative coupling of alkyl tosylates and dienes producing enantioenriched dienones. This catalytic process proceeds under low pressure and mild conditions using a simple cobalt catalyst and extends to diverse tosylate and diene coupling partners. The transformation constitutes a unique, convergent approach to the asymmetric synthesis of valuable carbonyl compounds from easily accessed starting materials
[GRAPHICS]Kinetic measurements to determine effective molarities of intramolecular reactions using 2,4-pentanediol and related tethers showed that methyl groups on the tether accelerate the major diastereomeric process but decelerate the minor process. The efficient promotion of stereocontrol is suggested to be due to chiral perturbation of the reaction rate through the entropy term, The conformation of the encounter complex of the reagent and reactant moieties was deduced by stereochemical analysis of the intramolecular adducts.
“Chiral Perturbation Factor” Approach Reveals Importance of Entropy Term in Stereocontrol of the 2,4-Pentanediol-Tethered Reaction
The stereocontrol mechanism of the 2, 4-pentanediol (PD)-tethered reaction was studied in detail using a reaction system consisting of phenyl and rhodium carbenoid moieties. Different tethers were examined to analyze the effects of the methyl groups on the PD tether. Among the reactions with these tethers, the PD tether achieves an unmeasurably high stereoselectivity in a diastereomeric ratio of > 500. Another tether showing a high but measurable stereoselectivity in a ratio of 41 is mostly controlled by the entropy term. To clarify the role of the methyl groups on the chiral tethers, which are the origin of the stereocontrol, the "chiral perturbation factor" is introduced. This parameter is defined as the rate of a chiral reaction relative to that of an achiral reference reaction. By analyzing the temperature dependence of the chiral perturbation factors for different chiral-tethered reactions, high potentials of the PD-tethered reaction in its stereocontrol are concluded to be due to the entropy term.
Stereocontrolled intramolecular meta-arene–alkene photocycloaddition reactions using chiral tethers: efficiency of the tether derived from 2,4-pentanediol
Photochemical reactions of substrates consisting of phenyl and vinyl groups, which are tethered with a chiral diol, resulted in intramolecular meta-arene-alkene cycloaddition; the reaction efficiency as well as the stereoselectivity was studied. 1,3-Butanediol, 2-substituted 1,3-propanediols, 2-methyl-2,4-penetanediol, and 2,6-dimethyl-3,5-heptanediol were employed as tethers, and the results are compared with those obtained with 2,4-pentanediol (PD) tether, which are known to show high stereoselectivity and moderate efficiency. All the reactions with the lower analogues were less efficient than with PD, although one of the butanediol-tethered reactions afforded a single stereoisomer as PD did. The dimethylheptanediol tether showed similar efficiency but lower stereoselectivity than PD. The results suggest that the PD tether has an optimized structure having a proper flexibility. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Manganese-Catalyzed Stereospecific Hydroxymethylation of Alkyl Tosylates
作者:Hannah Shenouda、Erik J. Alexanian
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03706
日期:2019.11.15
The development of a stereospecific hydroxymethylation of alkyl tosylates using an inexpensive, first-row catalyst is described. The transformation proceeds under mild conditions with low pressure to deliver homologated alcohols as products. Chiral, nonracemic β-branched primary alcohols are obtained with high enantiospecificity from easily accessed secondary alkyl substrates. Simple modification of