A Stereospecific Access to Allylic Systems Using Rhodium(II)−Vinyl Carbenoid Insertion into Si−H, O−H, and N−H Bonds
摘要:
Rhodium-catalyzed decomposition of alpha-vinyldiazoesters in the presence of silanes, alcohols, ethers, amines, and thiols have been shown to produce the corresponding alpha-silyl, alpha-hydroxy, alpha-alkoxy, alpha-amino, and alpha-thioalkoxy esters in generally good yield with a complete retention of the stereochemistry of the double bond of the diazo precursor. An extension of the process in homochiral series has also been devised using either a chiral auxiliary attached to the ester function or achiral alpha-vinyldiazoesters and Doyle's chiral catalyst Rh-2(MEPY)(4). In the former approach, pantolactone as chiral auxiliary gave diastereoselectivities of up to 70%, while the second approach produced the desired allylsilane with ee as high as 72%. On the other hand, Rh-2(MEPY)(4)-catalyzed insertion into the O-H bond of water led to poor or no enantioselectivity in good agreement with recent literature reports.
A Stereospecific Access to Allylic Systems Using Rhodium(II)−Vinyl Carbenoid Insertion into Si−H, O−H, and N−H Bonds
摘要:
Rhodium-catalyzed decomposition of alpha-vinyldiazoesters in the presence of silanes, alcohols, ethers, amines, and thiols have been shown to produce the corresponding alpha-silyl, alpha-hydroxy, alpha-alkoxy, alpha-amino, and alpha-thioalkoxy esters in generally good yield with a complete retention of the stereochemistry of the double bond of the diazo precursor. An extension of the process in homochiral series has also been devised using either a chiral auxiliary attached to the ester function or achiral alpha-vinyldiazoesters and Doyle's chiral catalyst Rh-2(MEPY)(4). In the former approach, pantolactone as chiral auxiliary gave diastereoselectivities of up to 70%, while the second approach produced the desired allylsilane with ee as high as 72%. On the other hand, Rh-2(MEPY)(4)-catalyzed insertion into the O-H bond of water led to poor or no enantioselectivity in good agreement with recent literature reports.
Kinetic investigations on the insertion of metal-carbenoid intermediates into the SI-H bond have been carried out. A kinetic isotope effect of 1.5 was found and the plot of log k(X)/k(H) vs sigma for the reaction of arylsilanes with EDA, gave a straight line with rho = -0.31. It was thus concluded that the insertion proceeds through a concerted pathway with development of a small positive charge at the silicon centre and it relatively early transition state. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd