Unusual Highly Regioselective Direct Aldol Additions with a Moisture-Resistant and Highly Efficient Titanium Catalyst
作者:Rainer Mahrwald、Bernd Schetter
DOI:10.1021/ol052637z
日期:2006.1.1
[reaction: see text] The extremely robust and water-stable tetranuclear complex Ti(4)(mu-BINOLato)(6)(mu(3)-OH)(4) was found to catalyze the direct aldol addition with high regioselectivities at the more steric alpha-encumbered side of unsymmetrical ketones. As few as 0.2 mol % loadings with this cluster were enough to afford complete conversions. The reaction proceeds very smoothly without a significant
the direct aldol addition with high degrees of regioselectivity at the sterically more encumbered α-side of unsymmetrical ketones. The formation of quaternary stereocenters is described. Oxygen-containing ene components can also be used as starting material in these reactions. When used with aliphaticaldehydes, acetals 18 or acetals of aldol adducts 20 were observed. As few as 0.2 mol % loadings with
aldol reactions in water using a catalytic amount of diarylborinic acid have been developed. The reactions proceeded smoothly in the presence of a small amount of an anionic surfactant and a Brønsted acid. Water was the most suitable solvent, and organic solvents such as ether and dichloromethane were ineffective in this system. Use of bis(4-trifluoromethylphenyl)borinic acid gave high catalytic activity
Chiral copper(II)-catalyzed asymmetric aldolreactions of silyl enol ethers with aldehydes (the Mukaiyama aldolreaction) have been performed in an ethanol-water solution. The use of the protic solvent including water is a key to achieve these reactions. Moreover, a catalytic asymmetric aldolreaction in pure water without using organic solvents has also been successfully carried out. This report has
Mixed Alkylamido Aluminate as a Kinetically Controlled Base
作者:Hiroshi Naka、James V. Morey、Joanna Haywood、Dana J. Eisler、Mary McPartlin、Felipe García、Hironaga Kudo、Yoshinori Kondo、Masanobu Uchiyama、Andrew E. H. Wheatley
DOI:10.1021/ja804749y
日期:2008.12.3
The mechanisms by which directed ortho metalation (DoM) and postmetalation processes occur when aromatic compounds are treated with mixed alkylamido aluminate i-BU3Al(TMP)Li (TMP-aluminate 1; TMP = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide) have been investigated by computation and X-ray diffraction. Sequential reaction of ArC(=O)N(i-Pr)(2) (Ar = phenyl, 1-naphthyl) with t-BuLi and t-Bu3Al in tetrahydrofuran affords [2-(i-Bu3Al)CmHnC(=O)N(i-Pr)(2)]Li center dot 3THF (m = 6, n = 4, 7; m = 10, n = 6, 8). These data advance the structural evidence for ortho-aluminated functionalized aromatics and represent model intermediates in DoM chemistry. Both 7 and 8 are found to resist reaction with HTMP, suggesting that ortho-aluminated aromatics are incapable of exhibiting stepwise deprotonative reactivity of the type recently shown to pertain to the related field of ortho zincation chemistry. Density functional theory calculations corroborate this view and reveal the existence of substantial kinetic barriers both to one-step alkyl exchange and to amido-alkyl exchange after an initial amido deprotonation reaction by aluminate bases. Rationalization of this dichotomy comes from an evaluation of the inherent Lewis acidities of the Al and Zn centers. As a representative synthetic application of this high kinetic reactivity of the TMP-aluminate, the highly regioselective deprotonative functionalization of unsymmetrical ketones both under mild conditions and at elevated temperatures is also presented.