Me<sub>2</sub>(CH<sub>2</sub>Cl)SiCN: Bifunctional Cyanating Reagent for the Synthesis of Tertiary Alcohols with a Chloromethyl Ketone Moiety via Ketone Cyanosilylation
作者:Xing-Ping Zeng、Jian Zhou
DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b05601
日期:2016.7.20
We report a novel bifunctional cyanating reagent, Me2(CH2Cl)SiCN, which paves the way to a one-pot sequential synthesis of tertiary alcohols featuring a chloromethyl ketone moiety via enantioselectiveketonecyanosilylation. This method contributes to gram-scale enantioselective total synthesis of the aggregation pheromone of the Colorado potato beetle, (S)-CPB.
the bifunctionalcatalyst 1 afforded the improved catalyst 2, which promoted the cyanosilylation of ketones with higher enantioselectivity as well as with improved catalyst turn-over with a factor of up to 10. Thus, chiral quaternary α-hydroxynitriles were obtained with excellent ee (up to 94% ee) using 1 mol% of 2 in the case of aryl ketones and 2.5 mol% of 2 in the case of aliphatic ketones.
Effective Activation of the Chiral Salen/Ti(OiPr)4 Catalyst with Achiral PhenolicN-Oxides as Additives in the Enantioselective Cyanosilylation of Ketones
the asymmetric cyanosilylation of ketones. By using 10 mol % of chiral salen-titanium(IV) complex in combination with 1 mol% achiral phenolic N-oxide as an additive, aromatic, aliphatic and heterocyclic ketones have been converted into the corresponding cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers in 58-96% yields with 56-82% ee. Several factors concerning the reactivity and enantioselectivity have been discussed
Cooperative Catalysis by Tertiary Amino-Thioureas: Mechanism and Basis for Enantioselectivity of Ketone Cyanosilylation
作者:Stephan J. Zuend、Eric N. Jacobsen
DOI:10.1021/ja0735352
日期:2007.12.1
The mechanism of the enantioselective cyanosilylation of ketones catalyzed by tertiary aminothiourea derivatives was investigated using a combination of experimental and theoretical methods. The kinetic analysis is consistent with a cooperative mechanism in which both the thiourea and the tertiary amine of the catalyst are involved productively in the rate-limiting cyanide addition step. Density functional theory calculations were used to distinguish between mechanisms involving thiourea activation of ketone or of cyanide in the enantioselectivity-determining step. The strong correlation obtained between experimental and calculated ee's for a range of substrates and catalysts provides support for the most favorable calculated transition structures involving amine-bound HCN adding to thiourea-bound ketone. The calculations suggest that enantioselectivity arises from direct interactions between the ketone substrate and the amino-acid derived portion of the catalyst. On the basis of this insight, more enantioselective catalysts with broader substrate scope were prepared and evaluated experimentally.