Enhanced Catalyst Activity and Enantioselectivity with Chirality-Switchable Polymer Ligand PQXphos in Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Silaborative Cleavage of meso-Methylenecyclopropanes
摘要:
The poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)-based helically chiral phosphine ligands PQXphos exhibited high enantioselectivities up to 97% ee in palladium-catalyzed desymmetrization of meso-1,2-dialkylsubstituted-3-methylenecyclopropanes through silaborative cleavage of the C C bond. The observed enantioselectivities were higher than those obtained with 2-diarylphosphino-1,1'-binaphthyl in our original report. Remarkable rate enhancement was also observed with a series of PQXphos in comparison with the corresponding low-molecular weight ligands.
Nickel-Catalyzed Regio- and Stereoselective Reductive Coupling between Methylenecyclopropanes, Aldehydes, and Triethylborane with Retention of the Cyclopropane Ring
Running rings: The first regio‐ and stereoselective reductive coupling between methylenecyclopropanes, aldehydes, and triethylborane with retention of the cyclopropanering was achieved using a nickel–phosphine catalyst (see scheme). The reductive coupling reaction constructed a stereo‐defined cyclopropanering with formation of a quaternary stereogenic carbon center.
An efficient one-pot two-step procedure for asymmetric synthesis of piperidine-fused trans-cycloalkenes is reported. The method comprises the initial enantioselective installation of another cyclopropane ringonto methylenecyclopropanes and the subsequent thermal skeletal rearrangement in which the installed and inherent cyclopropane rings are both opened. A concerted mechanism is proposed for the
Nickel-catalyzed alkylativecoupling of an enone or enal with methylenecyclopropane in the presence of triethylborane was achieved via stereospecific proximal C–C bond cleavage of methylenecyclopropane. With the use of methylenecyclopropane possessing an acyclic alkyl substituent, this reaction was also accompanied by the β-hydrogen elimination.
An enantioselective silaborative C-C cleavage of meso-methylenecyclopropanes (meso-MCPs) was achieved by using a palladium catalyst bearing a chiral monodentate phosphine ligand. The (R)-2-bis(3,5-dimethylphenyl)phosphino-1,1'-binaphthyl gave the highest enantioselectivity in the reactions with (methyldiphenylsilyl)pinacolborane at 50 degrees C, affording derivatives of 2-boryl-4-silyl-1-butene in high yields with high enantiomeric excesses. The reactions of bicyclic MCPs that have fused five- to eight-membered rings gave the corresponding products with 89-91% ee, whereas a little lower ee was observed in the reaction of a non-fused MCP (81% ee). Synthetic applications of the products were demonstrated through synthesis of beta-silyl ketones by H2O2 oxidation and synthesis of stereodefined homoallylic alcohols via homologation-allylboration sequence, in which the chiral beta-substituent of the allylborane has critical impact on the diastereochemical outcome.