Factors influencing the selectivity in asymmetric oxidation of sulfides attached to nitrogen containing heterocycles
作者:Muthu Seenivasaperumal、Hans-J?rgen Federsel、Anne Ertan、K?lm?n J. Szab?
DOI:10.1039/b700860k
日期:——
Asymmetric oxidation of heterocyclic sulfides, including imidazole, benzimidazole, indole and pyrimidine derivatives, were studied using a tartrate/Ti(iOPr)4 catalyst system.
Electrochemically Induced N-Alkylation of Chiral 2-(Methylsulfinyl) 1H-Benzimidazole
作者:Amedeo Capobianco、Tonino Caruso、Laura Palombi
DOI:10.1080/00397911.2015.1044616
日期:2015.8.3
Abstract Galvanostatic electrolysis of chiral 2-(methylsulfinyl) 1H-benzimidazole in an acetonitrile/tetraethyl ammonium tetrafluoroborate system has been exploited to carry out the selective N-alkylation of the benzimidazole moiety with organohalides, thus obtaining chiral derivatives with potential use in drug research. Theoretical determination of the redox potential for the title compound has been
Mechanism of the Asymmetric Sulfoxidation in the Esomeprazole Process: Effects of the Imidazole Backbone for the Enantioselection
作者:Muthu Seenivasaperumal、Hans-Jürgen Federsel、Kálmán J. Szabó
DOI:10.1002/adsc.200800753
日期:2009.4
Abstractmagnified imageThe asymmetric sulfoxidation reaction of imidazole‐based prochiral sulfides was studied to explore the mechanistic details of the highly efficient esomeprazole process, which is one of the few industrial scale catalytic asymmetric procedures. The synthetic studies revealed that the smallest subunit governing the selectivity in the esomeprazole process is an imidazole ring. Thus, by using the esomeprazole procedure methyl imidazole sulfide could be oxidized as efficiently as its several functionalized derivatives, including pyrmetazol. However, alkylation of the imidazole nitrogen led to a major drop of the enantioselectivity. Our atmospheric pressure chemical ionization‐mass spectrometry (APCI/MS) studies indicate that addition of small amounts of water to the reaction mixture facilitates the formation of mononuclear titanium species, which are the active catalytic intermediates of the selective oxidation reaction. One of the most important features of the esomeprazole procedure is that amine additives increase the enantioselectivity of the oxidation process. The NMR studies of the presumed reaction intermediates show that under catalytic conditions the amines are able to coordinate to titanium and dissociate the coordinated imidazole substrate. The density functional theory (DFT) modelling studies provided new insights in the mechanism of the asymmetric induction. It was found that the oxidation requires a lower activation energy if the imidazole sulfide precursor does not coordinate to titanium. Two possible reaction paths were explored for this out of sphere oxidation mechanism. The most important interaction governing the enantioselection is hydrogen bonding between the NH of the imidazole ring and the chiral tartrate ligand on titanium. Furthermore, the oxidation reaction imposes an important structural constraint to the TS structure involving a linear arrangement of the peroxide oxygens and the sulfur atom. This constraint and the N coordination of imidazole leads to a very strained structure for the inner sphere mechanism of the oxidation, which leads to a much higher activation barrier than the corresponding out of sphere process, and therefore it is unlikely.