Additions of structurally diverse α-ketonitriles to aromatic and aliphatic prochiral aldehydes yielding highly enantioenriched acylated cyanohydrins were achieved using a combination of a titanium salen dimer and an achiral or chiral Lewis base. In most cases high yields and high enantioselectivities were observed. The ee was moderate in the initial part of the reaction but increased over time. This
Inversion of the configuration of cyanohydrins by a mitsunobu esterification reaction
作者:Erwin G.J.C. Warmerdam、Johannes Brussee、Chris G. Kruse、Arne van der Gen
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(01)86287-6
日期:1993.1
Optically active (R)-cyanohydrins have been transformed into cyanohydrin esters of opposite configuration under Mitsunobu conditions and subsequently solvolyzed to (S)-cyanohydrins in high chemical and optical yield. The method works well for allylic and benzylic cyanohydrins. Cyanohydrins containing strongly electron donating substituents gave extensive racemization. Saturated aliphatic cyanohydrins
Mechanistic studies on the enantioselective BINOLAM/titanium(IV)-catalyzed cyanobenzoylation of aldehydes: Part 1
作者:Alejandro Baeza、Carmen Nájera、José M. Sansano、José M. Saá
DOI:10.1016/j.tetasy.2011.07.006
日期:2011.6
The enantioselective titanium(IV)-catalyzed cyanobenzoylation of aldehydes using 1:1 BINOLAM/Ti(OiPr)(4) mixtures as a precatalyst gave O-aroyl cyanohydrins 4 with good enantiomeric excesses. The standard optimization set carried out on the assumption of Curtin-Hammett behavior, led to no amelioration.Extensive experimental and computational studies were carried out with the purpose of identifying the key mechanistic aspects governing enantioselectivity. HCN and isopropyl benzoate were detected in the reacting mixtures. This as well as the reaction response to the presence of an exogenous base, and the failure to react in the presence of Binol/Ti(OiPr)(4) mixtures, led us to propose, not a direct but an indirect process involving an enantioselective hydrocyanation step by O-benzoylation. Computational work carried out with mononuclear monomeric M-M and dinuclear mixed dimer D-IMD as catalysts support this mechanistic proposal.On the other hand, cyanobenzoylations carried out with 1:2 or higher 1:n (up to 1:5) BINOLAM/Ti(OiPr)(4) mixtures appear to involve a reversal of the enantioselection. This, together with the fact that the benzoylation of the ligated iPrOH is a slow reaction, has led us to conclude that these cyanobenzoylations do not fit within the standard Curtin-Hammett kinetic scheme. Instead, such BINOLAM/Ti(O/Pr)(4)-catalyzed cyanobenzoylations of aldehydes rather behave as non-Curtin-Hammett kinetic schemes. Further computational analysis is needed in order to make a clear distinction between Curtin-Hammett and non-Curtin-Hammett kinetic frameworks. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Warmerdam, E. G. J. C.; Brussee, J.; Kruse, C. G., Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements, 1993, vol. 75, # 1-4, p. 3 - 6
作者:Warmerdam, E. G. J. C.、Brussee, J.、Kruse, C. G.、Gen, A. van der