Electronic and steric control in carbon-hydrogen insertion reactions of diazoacetoacetates catalyzed by dirhodium(II) carboxylates and carboxamides
摘要:
Carboxylate and carboxamide ligands on dirhodium(II) catalysts can provide enormous regiocontrol in carbon-hydrogen insertion reactions of diazoacetate esters. Whereas 2,3,4-trimethyl-3-pentyl diazoacetoacetate (1) forms gamma-lactone products from insertion into primary and tertiary C-H bonds in a statistical distribution (61:39) with dirhodium(II) tetrakis(perfluorobutyrate), only tertiary C-H insertion is observed with dirhodium(II) tetraacetamide. Similar results are obtained with 2-methyl-2-octyl diazoacetoacetate (3), where competition for insertion exists between secondary and primary C-H bonds and electronic factors govern regioselection. However, with 2-methyl-3-isopropyl-3-heptyl diazoacetoacetate (2) and 2-methyl-1-phenyl-2-propyl diazoacetoacetate (4), product distributions from C-H insertion are invariant with the dirhodium(II) ligands; insertion into a secondary C-H bond is favored over tertiary C-H insertion with 2 (95:5), and insertion into a primary C-H bond is preferred to benzylic secondary C-H insertion with 4 (70:30). In such cases, which are amenable to analyses by MM2 calculations, regioselectivity is determined by conformational preferences for which C-H insertion selectivity can be as random as that found with 2 and 4. When only one C-H bond site is available for insertion to form a five-membered ring product, only one gamma-lactone is observed from reactions catalyzed by dirhodium(II) tetraacetate, and that product is not necessarily the one predicted by presumed electronic preferences.
Highly selective γ-lactone syntheses by intramolecular carbenoid carbon-hydrogen insertion in rhodium(II) carboxylate and rhodium(II) carboxamide catalyzed reactions of diazo esters
作者:Michael P. Doyle、Vahid Bagheri、Matthew M. Pearson、John D. Edwards
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)93408-2
日期:——
Rhodium(II) acetate and rhodium(II) acetamide catalyzed decomposition of diazo esters forms γ-lactones in high yield and with exceptionally high regio- and diastereoselectivity.