We report the design and synthesis of a new series of binaphthol based chiral organocatalysts which can act as metal-free organocatalysts in the enantioselective Henry reaction with very good yield and ee.
Enantioselective catalysts for the Henry reaction: fine-tuning the catalytic components
作者:Edwin C. Constable、Guoqi Zhang、Catherine E. Housecroft、Markus Neuburger、Silvia Schaffner、Wolf-D. Woggon、Jennifer A. Zampese
DOI:10.1039/b9nj00243j
日期:——
Catalysts for the asymmetric Henry reaction involving 1,6-bis(3-ethoxy-2-hydroxyphenyl)-(3S,4S)-(−)-diphenyl-2,5-diazahexane (H22) and copper salts have been investigated. Conditions for the conversion of 4-nitrobenzaldehyde to 2-nitro-1-(4-nitrophenyl)ethanol by reaction with nitromethane have been optimized (5 mol% H22, 10 mol% CuI, THF, 295 K and 2 hours or 273 K and 12 hours) resulting in 99% yield and 90–92% ee. These catalytic conditions are effective for other aromatic aldehydes containing electron-withdrawing substituents, and for pyridine carbaldehydes; representative aliphatic aldehydes were converted to the respective β-hydroxynitro derivatives with good enantioselectivities, and in moderate yields. These catalytic conditions were found to be ineffective for simple aromatic aldehydes or those containing electron-releasing substituents.
Henry reaction of various aldehydes with nitromethane. It was found that these compounds were effective catalysts for this reaction, with enantiomeric excesses being as high as 97%. The enantioselectivities of individual derivatives were different and depended on the substituents attached to stereogenic centers and the configuration of imidazolidine-4-one cycle. High enantiomeric excesses were obtained
Cu-catalyzed asymmetric Henry reaction promoted by chiral camphor Schiff bases
作者:Tangqian Jiao、Jingxuan Tu、Gaoqiang Li、Feng Xu
DOI:10.1016/j.molcata.2016.02.004
日期:2016.5
Abstract Five novel chiral camphor Schiffbases have been synthesized and utilized as ligands in asymmetric Henry reaction between nitromethane and aldehydes. The diastereoisomeric Schiffbases 5a and 5a' were separated successfully and gave completely different absolute configurations in the reaction. The reactions were carried out with CuCl-Schiff base 5a complex under mild condition with good yields
A group of modified (salen)Cr(III)Cl complexes with bulky benzylic substituents in the 3,3′-position of the salicylidene moiety have been successfully applied for the asymmetric nitroaldolreaction. The readily accessible complex bearing 3-phenylpent-3-yl groups (2 mol %) leads to β-nitro alcohols in up to 92% yield and 94% ee.