Efficient methods for the preparation of alkyl-aryl and symmetrical or unsymmetrical dialkyl ethers between alcohols and phenols or two alcohols by oxidation-reduction condensation

Oxidation-reduction condensation via alkoxydiphenylphosphines (diphenylphosphinite esters) (1), generated in situ from chlorodiphenylphosphine (2) and alcohols, 2,6-dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone (3), and phenols proceeds smoothly to afford alkyl-aryl ethers in good to high yields under neutral conditions. In a similar fashion, a new and efficient method for the preparation of symmetrical or unsymmetrical dialkyl ethers in good to high yields is established via tetrafluoro-1,4-benzoquinone (fluoranil) (4), alcohols, and 1 formed in situ from (n)BuLi-treated alcohols and 2. This method is applicable also to the etherification of chiral secondary or tertiary alcohols with retention or inversion of configurations. The inverted ethers are afforded by treating chiral alkoxydiphenylphosphines and achiral alcohols, while the reaction of achiral alkoxydiphenylphosphines and chiral alcohols forms retained ethers.     

2,2,2-三氟-1-(9-蒽基)乙醇对映体在涂敷型手性固定相上的拆分

用高效液相色谱法在涂敷１５％（Ｗｔ）三苯基氨基甲酸纤维素醌手性柱上,考察了洗脱液正己烷／醇（Ｖ／Ｖ）中醇对分离－２,２,２－三氟－１（９－蒽基）乙醇对映体的影响,初步认为,在对映体分离过程中,洗脱液中醇与手性固定相的ＮＨ和Ｃ＝Ｏ形成氢键作用,此过程与对映体和手性固定相的ＮＨ和Ｃ＝Ｏ所形成氢键作用相竞争;洗脱液中醇的结构不同之所以影响对映体的分离效果,还与洗脱中醇改变固定相中手性空穴的立体环境有关,     

α-苯乙醇对映体在涂敷三苯甲酸纤维素酯手性固定相上的高效液相色谱法分离──洗脱液中醇的影响

在涂敷质量分数为15％的三苯甲酸纤维素酯手性柱上,考察了洗脱液中乙醇、正丙醇、异丙醇、正丁醇体积分数在色谱分离对映体性能方面的影响。初步认为在分离过程中,洗脱液中的醇与固定相的C＝O形成氢键作用,该作用和对映体与固定相的C＝O形成的氢键作用相竞争;洗脱液中醇的结构不同之所以会影响对映体的分离效果,与洗脱液中醇改变固定相中手性空穴的立体环境有关,醇的结构不同,造成固定相中手性空穴的立体环境不同。     

α-苯乙醇对映体在涂敷三苯甲酸纤维素酯手性固定相上的高效液相色谱法分离──洗脱液中醇的影响

 在涂敷质量分数为15％的三苯甲酸纤维素酯手性柱上,考察了洗脱液中乙醇、正丙醇、异丙醇、正丁醇体积分数在色谱分离对映体性能方面的影响。初步认为在分离过程中,洗脱液中的醇与固定相的C＝O形成氢键作用,该作用和对映体与固定相的C＝O形成的氢键作用相竞争;洗脱液中醇的结构不同之所以会影响对映体的分离效果,与洗脱液中醇改变固定相中手性空穴的立体环境有关,醇的结构不同,造成固定相中手性空穴的立体环境不同。     

Organocatalytic Atroposelective Arylation of 2‐Naphthylamines as a Practical Approach to Axially Chiral Biaryl Amino Alcohols

The first phosphoric acid catalyzed direct arylation of 2‐naphthylamines with iminoquinones for the atroposelective synthesis of axially chiral biaryl amino alcohols has been developed. This reaction constitutes a highly functional‐group‐tolerant route for the rapid construction of enantioenriched axially chiral biaryl amino alcohols, and is a rare example of 2‐naphthylamines acting as nucleophiles in an organocatalytic enantioselective transformation. Furthermore, the products, which feature various halogen atoms, provide access to structurally diverse axially chiral amino alcohols through further transformations.     

Highly Efficient Kinetic Resolution of Aryl-Alkenyl Alcohols by Ru-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer

No matter through asymmetric reduction of ketones or kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols, enantioselective synthesis of the corresponding secondary alcohols is challenging when the two groups attached to the prochiral or chiral centers are spatially or electronically similar. For examples, dialkyl (sp³ vs. sp³), diaryl (sp² vs. sp²), and aryl-alkenyl (sp² vs. sp²) alcohols are difficult to produce with high enantioselectivities. By exploiting our recently developed Ru-catalysts of minimal stereogenicity, we reported herein a highly efficient kinetic resolution of aryl-alkenyl alcohols through hydrogen transfer. This method enabled such versatile chiral building blocks for organic synthesis as allylic alcohols, to be readily accessed with excellent enantiomeric excesses at practically useful conversions.     

醇存在下R,S-1,1′-2-联萘酚对映体的环糊精手性识别研究

以R,S-1,1′-2-联萘酚对映体为手性客体分子, 采用荧光探针法详细研究了各种醇对β-环糊精/(R或S)-1,1′-2-联萘酚对映体的手性包络和手性荧光猝灭等性质的影响, 结果表明, 醇的存在可显著影响R,S-1,1′-2-联萘酚对映体与β-环糊精形成包络物的包络形式和包络常数. 通过与该对映体的β-环糊精手性固定相高效液相色谱拆分法比较研究结果表明, 醇等第三客体分子可显著影响环糊精对对映体化合物的手性选择性和分离度.     

Kinetic Resolution of Tertiary 2‐Alkoxycarboxamido‐Substituted Allylic Alcohols by Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Intramolecular Transesterification

A highly enantioselective kinetic resolution of tertiary 2‐alkoxycarboxamido allylic alcohols has been achieved through a chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed intramolecular transesterification reaction. Both alkyl,aryl‐ and dialkyl‐substituted tertiary allylic alcohols were resolved with excellent efficiencies, affording both the recovered tertiary alcohols and the carbamate products with high enantioselectivities (with s factors up to 164.6). A gram‐scale reaction with 1 mol % catalyst loading and the facile conversion of the enantioenriched products into useful chiral building blocks, such as chiral oxazolidinones and β‐amino alcohols, demonstrate the value of this reaction.     

Direct determination of absolute configuration of monoalcohols by bis(magnesium porphyrin)

Ethane bridged bis(Mg porphyrin) has been found to be an effective sensor for the direct determination of the absolute configuration of a variety of monoalcohols at millimolar concentrations and room temperature based on the CD exciton chirality method. Examination of a variety of synthetic and natural monoalcohols, including alpha-substituted aliphatic and aromatic alkanols with one chiral center, as well as alicyclic alcohols with 2-5 chiral centers, gave consistent results. In the case of alcohols with multiple chiral centers, the absolute configuration of the carbon alpha to OH is always read out.     

A chiral porous metal-organic framework for highly sensitive and enantioselective fluorescence sensing of amino alcohols

A highly porous and fluorescent metal-organic framework (MOF), 1, was built from a chiral tetracarboxylate bridging ligand derived from 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol (BINOL) and a cadmium carboxylate infinite-chain secondary building unit. The fluorescence of 1 can be effectively quenched by amino alcohols via H-bonding with the binaphthol moieties decorating the MOF, leading to a remarkable chiral sensor for amino alcohols with greatly enhanced sensitivity and enantioselectivity over BINOL-based homogeneous systems. The higher detection sensitivity of 1 is due to a preconcentration effect by which the analytes are absorbed and concentrated inside the MOF channels, whereas the higher enantioselectivity of 1 is believed to result from enhanced chiral discrimination owing to the cavity confinement effect and the conformational rigidity of the BINOL groups in the framework. 1 was quenched by four chiral amino alcohols with unprecedentedly high Stern-Volmer constants of 490-31200 M(-1) and enantioselectivity ratios of 1.17-3.12.     

仲醇的氧化动力学拆分

光学活性仲醇是非常重要的合成多种具有药物和生物活性化合物的原料和关键中间体,它们可通过外消旋仲醇的氧化动力学拆分获得。本文按氧化剂和手性催化剂的类别分类综述了近年来通过氧化动力学拆分获得光学活性仲醇方法的进展,并对一些方法的机理进行了描述。对以(-)-金雀花碱-钯(Ⅱ)、金雀花碱类似物-钯(Ⅱ)、N-杂环卡宾(NHC)-钯(Ⅱ)、手性双官能团-铱配合物以及手性(ON)-钌(salen)配合物催化的分子氧为氧化剂的仲醇的氧化动力学拆分进行了充分讨论。此外,还讨论了手性salen-锰(Ⅲ)催化二乙酰基碘苯以及通过不对称氢转移的方法对仲醇的氧化动力拆分。可以发现,(-)-金雀花碱-钯(Ⅱ)-分子氧体系在目前所有仲醇氧化动力学拆分体系中表现最佳。用于仲醇氧化动力学拆分的高效体系仍有待进一步开发。     

Enantioselective reduction of α-substituted ketones mediated by the boronate ester TarB-NO2

A facile and mild reduction procedure is reported for the preparation of chiral secondary alcohols prepared from α-substituted ketones using sodium borohydride and the chiral boronate ester (l)-TarB-NO₂. Direct reduction of substituted ketones bearing Lewis basic heteroatoms generally provided secondary alcohols of only modest enantiomeric excess likely due to either competition between the target carbonyl and the functionalized sidechains at the Lewis acidic boron atom in TarB-NO₂ or the added steric bulk of the α-sidechain. As an alternative method, these substrates were synthesized using TarB-NO₂ via a two-step procedure involving the reduction of an α-halo ketone to a chiral terminal epoxide, followed by regioselective/regiospecific epoxide opening by various nucleophiles. This procedure provides access to a variety of functionalized secondary alcohols including β-hydroxy ethers, thioethers, nitriles, and amines with enantiomeric excesses of 94% and yields up to 98%.     

New Nitrogen,Sulfur-, and Selenium-Donating Ligands Derived from Chiral Pyridine Amino Alcohols. Synthesis and Catalytic Activity in Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation

Although many chiral ligands for asymmetric catalysis have been developed, there is still a need for new structures allowing the modular approach. Recently, easy synthesis of chiral pyridine-containing β-amino alcohols has been elaborated by opening respective epoxides with enantiomeric 1-phenylethylamine. This paper reports the synthetic transformation of β-amino alcohols into the new complexing pyridine-containing seleno- and thioethers. The amino alcohols were effectively converted to cyclic sulfonamidates, which were reacted with thiolates or phenyl selenide nucleophile. The reaction was diastereoselective, and its outcome depended on the configuration at the substitution center. The problem was discussed considering DFT optimized structures of both diastereomeric sulfonamidates. New amino-aldimine ligands were also synthesized from chiral pyridine-containing diamines. Nine new chiral ligands were tested in the Tsuji-Trost allylic alkylation resulting in the enantiomerically enriched product in up to 75% ee. The observed stereochemical induction agrees with the prevailing nucleophilic attack at the allylic carbon laying opposite to the complexing nitrogen of pyridine in η³-allylic intermediate complexes.     

Enantioselective synthesis of butadien-2-ylcarbinols via (silylmethyl)allenic alcohols from chromium-catalyzed additions to aldehydes utilizing chiral carbazole ligands

The synthesis of chiral, nonracemic butadienylcarbinols by employing intermediate (trimethylsilyl)methylallenic alcohols is described. Allenic alcohols are obtained by treatment of aldehydes with (4-bromobut-2-ynyl)trimethylsilane in the presence of a catalytic amount of CrCl₃ or CrCl₂. Several new tridentate bis(oxazolinyl)carbazole ligands were synthesized and evaluated as the source of chirality. The synthesis of chiral allenic alcohols can be achieved in good yields (58-88%) and enantioselectivities (55-78% ee). Allenic alcohols may be treated with TBAF or 2 M HCl to provide the desired dienes in 43-86% yields. Alternatively, the (trimethylsilyl)methyl allenic alcohols afford iodobutadienyl carbinols when treated with N-iodosuccinimide.     

丙炔醇类和丙二烯醇类化合物对映体的气相色谱拆分

使用全甲基-β-环糊精柱(Rt-βDex^TM~cst柱),对5种丙炔醇类和4种丙二烯醇类化合物对映体的气相色谱分离方法进行了研究,结果4种丙炔醇类和4种丙二烯醇类对映体得到分离,分离因子α为1.01～1.04,分离度R一般大于1.5。方法已用于实际不对称合成样品ee值的测定。探讨了对映体在该柱上的拆分机理,认为烷基取代基适当的疏水性和大小是降低非特异性相互作用、形成相对稳定的不对称环糊精包合物,从而成功拆分光学活性异构体的关键。     

Radical-mediated opening of 2,3-epoxy alcohols using Cp2TiCl: stereoselective construction of quaternary chiral centers

Radical-mediated opening of chiral 2,3-epoxy alcohols regioselectively at the 2-position using Cp2TiCl and trapping the intermediate radical with methyl acrylate and acrylonitrile led to the stereoselective formation of tetrasubstituted chiral centers.     

Rapid identification of enantioselective ketone reductions using targeted microbial libraries

A collection of about 300 microbes was surveyed for the ability to generate chiral secondary alcohols by enantioselective reduction of a series of alkyl aryl ketones. Microbial cultures demonstrating utility in reducing model ketones were arrayed in multi-well plates and used to rapidly identify specific organisms capable of producing chiral alcohols used as intermediates in the synthesis of several drug candidates. Approximately 60 cultures were shown to selectively reduce various ketones providing both the R and S enantiomers of the corresponding alcohols in 92-99% ee with yields up to 95% at 1-4 g/L. An alternative approach to chiral alcohols based on selective microbial oxidation of racemic alcohols is also reported. This study provides a useful reference for generating chiral alcohols by selective microbial bioconversion.     

Direct observation of odd-even effect for chiral alkyl alcohols in solution using vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy

The odd-even effect of chiral alkyl alcohols, (S)-CH(3)CHOHC(n)()H(2)(n)()(+1) (n = 2-8), in solution state has been observed spectroscopically for the first time. The vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) bands at 1148 cm(-)(1) exhibit a clear odd-even effect. The observed VCD bands of (R)-(-)-2-hexanol correspond well to those predicted (population weighted). Density functional theory calculations indicate that the most prevalent conformations in solution are the all-trans forms. The odd-even effect of the VCD bands is ascribed to the alternating terminal methyl motions in the alkyl chains relative to fixed motions near the chiral center in the trans conformations. The conformational sensitivity of VCD for the chiral alcohols in the solution state may be useful for the design of liquid crystals and ligands in the future.     

New chiral amino alcohol ligands derived from 1-phenylethylamine for efficient Ru-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation

A series of chiral amino alcohols have been prepared from cheap and readily available (S)-1-phenylethylamine through a one-step transformation. The ability of these newly developed amino alcohols as chiral ligands was evaluated in the Ru-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic alkyl ketones, providing chiral secondary alcohols with good to excellent conversions (71-100%) and moderate to good enantioselectivities (67-95% ee). The results also showed that the structure of these amino alcohols has a significant influence on the conversion and enantioselectivity.     

Highly enantioselective kinetic resolution of primary alcohols of the type Ph-X-CH(CH3)-CH2OH by Pseudomonas cepacia lipase: effect of acyl chain length and solvent

Although lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia (PCL) shows high enantioselectivity towards many secondary alcohols, it usually exhibits only low to moderate enantioselectivity towards primary alcohols. To increase this enantioselectivity, we optimised the reaction conditions for the PCL-catalysed hydrolysis of esters of three chiral primary alcohols: 2-methyl-3-phenyl-1-propanol 1, 2-phenoxy-1-propanol 2 and solketal 3. The enantioselectivity towards 1-acetate increased from E=16 to 38 upon changing the solvent from ethyl ether/phosphate buffer to 30% n-propanol in phosphate buffer and increased again to E ≥190 upon changing the substrate from 1-acetate to 1-heptanoate. The same changes increased the enantioselectivity towards alcohol 2 from E=17 to 70, but did not significantly increase the enantioselectivity towards alcohol 3. The best solvent was similar to the solvent used to crystallise the open form of PCL and likely stabilises the open form of PCL. This stabilisation may increase the enantioselectivity by removing kinetic contributions from a non-enantioselective lid-opening step. We determined the kinetic contribution of the lid-opening step by measuring the interfacial activation of PCL. The activation energy for the PCL-catalysed hydrolysis of ethyl acetate was at least 2.6 kcal/mol lower in the presence of a water–organic solvent interface.