Novel ruthenium complexes and process for preparing alcoholic compounds using these
申请人:Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha
公开号:US20030166978A1
公开(公告)日:2003-09-04
The invention provides novel ruthenium complexes having an optically active diphosphine compound, which has asymmetry on carbon and is easy to synthesize, as the ligand and a process for preparing optically active alcoholic compounds using said complexes as the catalysts, wherein said process is the process for preparing optically active alcoholic compounds, which are excellent in terms of reactivity, enatioselectivity and the like in an asymmetric hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds compared with conventional ruthenium complex catalysts having an optically active diphosphine compound having the axial chirality or the asymmetry on carbon as the ligand.
In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides an optically active ruthenium complex represented by the general formula (1)
1
wherein X and Y, which can be identical to or different from each other, represent a hydrogen atom or an anion group, R
1
and R
2
, which can be identical to or different from each other, represent a chain or cyclic hydrocarbon group of carbon number 1 to 20, which can be substituted, R
3
and R
4
, which can be identical to or different from each other, represent a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group of carbon number 1 to 3, and R
5
, R
6
, R
7
and R
8
, which can be identical to or different from one another, represent a hydrocarbon group of carbon number 1 to 30, which can be substituted, with the proviso that when X and Y are bromine, R
1
and R
2
are a methyl group, and when R
3
and R
4
are a hydrogen atom, at least one of R
5
, R
6
, R
7
and R
8
is not a phenyl group.
这项发明提供了具有光学活性二膦化合物的新型钌配合物,该二膦化合物在碳上具有不对称性且易于合成,作为配体,并提供了一种利用该配合物作为催化剂制备光学活性醇化合物的方法,其中所述方法是制备光学活性醇化合物的方法,与具有轴向手性或在碳上具有不对称性的光学活性二膦化合物作为配体的传统钌配合物催化剂相比,在羰基化合物的不对称氢化中具有较高的反应活性、对映选择性等方面表现出色。在优选实施方式中,该发明提供了一种由通式(1)1表示的光学活性钌配合物,其中X和Y可以相同或不同,表示氢原子或阴离子基团,R1和R2可以相同或不同,表示碳数为1至20的链状或环烃基团,可以被取代,R3和R4可以相同或不同,表示碳数为1至3的氢原子或烃基团,R5、R6、R7和R8可以相同或不同,表示碳数为1至30的烃基团,可以被取代,但当X和Y为溴时,R1和R2为甲基基团,且当R3和R4为氢原子时,R5、R6、R7和R8中至少有一个不是苯基团。