Entropy-Controlled Asymmetric Synthesis. How Differential Activation Entropy Is Induced in Chiral Tethered Reactions
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[GRAPHICS]Kinetic measurements to determine effective molarities of intramolecular reactions using 2,4-pentanediol and related tethers showed that methyl groups on the tether accelerate the major diastereomeric process but decelerate the minor process. The efficient promotion of stereocontrol is suggested to be due to chiral perturbation of the reaction rate through the entropy term, The conformation of the encounter complex of the reagent and reactant moieties was deduced by stereochemical analysis of the intramolecular adducts.
Remote stereocontrol of intramolecular rhodium carbene addition driven by a small and flexible chiral 2,4-pentanediol tether
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Intramolecular rhodium carbenoid additions were studied using 2,4-pentanidiol as a chiral tether between a diazo group, a precursor of the carbene, and an aromatic group to be reacted with the carbene. The reaction was designed to perform the addition at a remote position, conserving the original high stereoselectivity appeared at additions near the tether, in addition to high regioselectivity and sufficient reaction efficiency. Substitution on the near reaction sites, the carbene carbon and aromatic group, in the reactant was effective to relegate the reaction site to a remote position. In the present study, two remote reactions, one dealing with C-H insertion and the other classified in Buchner reaction, were found to give sole products in high yields. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.