Diamination of olefins: synthesis, structures and reactivity of osmaimidazolidines

The diamination of certain olefins bearing electron-withdrawing substituents proceeds with well-defined bisimido and trisimido complexes of osmium. The products are obtained as osmaimidazolidines which are of unprecedented stability with regards to olefin functionalisation. Osmium complexes from related dihydroxylation or aminohydroxylation are significantly less stable and thereby promote catalytic reactions. This difference in reaction profile has been investigated and chiral osmium heterocycles obtained from olefin difunctionalisation were characterised by X-ray analysis for the first time. Kinetic studies on the reaction profile have also been carried out. An asymmetric version of this reaction is based on chiral non-racemic auxiliaries and leads to diastereomerically enriched osmaimidazolidines with up to 90 % de. This sequence represents the first asymmetric diamination of olefins. Attempts on the use of chiral ligands for direct asymmetric diamination as well as the consequences of osmaimidazolidine properties for a catalytic reaction are discussed.     

树状功能高分子负载锡配合物的合成及其催化酮的Baeyer-Villiger氧化反应性能研究

通过固相合成方法将聚酰胺-胺树状分子担载于氯球上,对其外围分别用2,4-二羟基苯甲醛和邻羟基苯甲醛进行修饰,再与SnCl2.2H2O反应,形成配体不同的两类树状高分子锡配合物.将此类配合物用作30%的双氧水氧化酮的Baeyer-Villiger反应的非均相催化剂,具有较好的催化活性.2-金刚烷酮、环己酮、3-甲基-2-戊酮等都转化为相应的酯和内酯,底物的转化率和产物选择性均较高.对2-羟基苯甲醛、2,4-二羟基苯甲醛和邻羟基苯甲醛修饰的不同类型催化剂催化下的反应进行比较,发现配体对锡的担载量和催化活性均有不同程度的影响.其中邻羟基苯甲醛修饰的配合物因具有较高的锡担载量而具有了最佳的催化活性.此催化体系使用环境友好的低浓度双氧水为氧化剂,催化剂制备方法简单、催化反应完成时间短、催化剂在多次重复利用后活性没有明显降低,可回收和重复利用.     

手性羰基铁体系催化酮的不对称氢转移氢化

手性羰基铁络合物很少被用于芳香酮的不对称氢转移氢化.利用不同的羰基铁络合物与手性双胺双膦配体现场络合,形成手性胺膦铁催化体系.考察了它们对多种芳香酮的不对称氢转移催化氢化性能.结果表明,三核的手性胺膦铁簇合物是催化芳香酮不对称氢转移氢化的较好体系.当用三核的铁簇合物[Et₃NH]⁺[HFe₃(CO)₁₁]^-体系催化1,1-二苯基丙酮的氢化时,最高可获得98%的对映选择性.通过现场红外光谱测定,揣测羰基铁簇合物Fe₃(CO)₁₂在催化反应过程中保持三核的簇合物的簇骼不变.     

氮杂冠醚取代单Schiff碱过渡金属配合物催化氧化对二甲苯研究

本文将苯并-10-氮杂-15-冠-5或吗啉基取代的单Schiff碱过渡配合物作为催化剂,在常压和120℃条件下,以空气为氧源,研究了对二甲苯催化氧化反应。实验探讨了Schiff碱配合物中心金属离子、Schiff碱配体中挂接的氮杂冠醚环、配体芳环上取代基和反应时间等对对二甲苯催化氧化反应的影响。实验结果表明:Schiff碱配合物中氮杂冠醚的存在能显著缩短反应诱导期,提高催化反应活性和产物选择性;Schiff碱Mn(III)配合物比Schiff碱Co(II)具有更高的催化反应活性;氮杂冠醚Schiff碱Mn(III)配合物对于二甲苯的催化氧化反应转化率大于60%,对甲苯甲酸产物的选择性均高于70%。     

Catalytic asymmetric Henry reaction using copper(II) chiral tridentate Schiff-base complexes and their polymer-supported complexes

A series of chiral tridentate Schiff-base ligands and their polymer-supported ligands were conveniently prepared and introduced as copper(II) chiral complexes for the asymmetric Henry reaction. The structures of these ligands have been characterized by IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and MS. The experimental results showed that the corresponding β-nitro alcohols were obtained in moderate to high yields (up to 98%) with up to 98% ee under mild conditions. The complex catalyst forming from copper(II) polymer-supported ligands could be recycled by a simple filtration and reused 6 times at least with similar good catalytic effect (about 94% yield and 90% ee).     

轴不安定性联苯类膦-噁唑啉配体/铱配合物在亚胺不对称氢化反应中的应用

考察了一系列轴不安定性联苯类膦-噁唑啉配体/铱配合物作为手性催化剂用于亚胺类底物的不对称催化氢化反应.结果表明该类催化剂具有很高的催化活性(99%转化率)和较好的对映选择性(75%ee).     

Assembled enantioselective catalysts for carbonyl-ene reactions

A new strategy for generating assembled polymeric chiral titanium complexes using linked bis-BINOL ligands have been developed, and the assembled catalysts showed excellent enantioselectivity (up to 96.5% ee) for carbonyl-ene reaction under heterogeneous conditions to afford corresponding α-hydroxy esters in high yield. The linkers between two BINOL units of the ligands in the assembled catalysts were found to have significant impact on the enantioselectivity of reaction, which demonstrated the importance of the supramolecular structures of the assemblies for their catalytic behaviours.     

Chiral induction effects in ruthenium(II) amino alcohol catalysed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones: an experimental and theoretical approach

The enantioselective outcome of transfer hydrogenation reactions that are catalysed by ruthenium(II) amino alcohol complexes was studied by means of a systematically varied series of ligands. It was found that both the substituent at the 1-position in the 2-amino-1-alcohol ligand and the substituent at the amine functionality influence the enantioselectivity of the reaction to a large extent: enantioselectivities (ee values) of up to 95% were obtained for the reduction of acetophenone. The catalytic cycle of ruthenium(II) amino alcohol catalysed transfer hydrogenation was examined at the density functional theory level. The formation of a hydrogen bond between the carbonyl functionality of the substrate and the amine proton of the ligand, as well as the formation of an intramolecular H...H bond and a planar H-Ru-N-H moiety are crucially important for the reaction mechanism. The enantioselective outcome of the reaction can be illustrated with the aid of molecular modelling by the visualisation of the steric interactions between the ketone and the ligand backbone in the ruthenium(II) catalysts.     

共聚物铑配合物催化甲醇羰基化制备醋酸的反应动力学分析

以共聚物铑配合物催化甲醇羰基化经醋酸甲酯到醋酸的反应，具有高稳定性、高活性的特点．本文通过对作者近期研究工作的总结，绘出此催化反应全过程的循环图，并在此基础上求出有关动力学参数，结果计算值与实验值相符，证明此机理的合理性，并讨论了几种共聚物配体之间的差异．     

Catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-alder reactions of imines--an approach to optically active nonproteinogenic alpha-amino acids

A catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction of imines has been developed. The reaction of N-tosyl alpha-imino ester with different dienes including activated, non-activated, cyclic, and acyclic dienes has been investigated in the presence of various chiral Lewis acids. A series of phosphino-oxazoline ligands have been synthesized and evaluated for the reaction. It was found that the combination of phosphino-oxazoline ligands with copper(I) salts gives the best results for the activated dienes, while BINAP-copper(I) complexes are good catalysts for all the dienes studied. In the case of activated acyclic dienes the aza-Diels-Alder products can be obtained in higher than 80% isolated yield and 96% ee, while for the unactivated cyclic dienes the exo diastereomer is formed as the major product in up to 95 % ee. For an activated cyclic conjugated diene, 2-trimethylsilyloxy-1,3-cyclohexadiene, the reaction proceeds as a Mannich-type addition reaction giving optically active gamma-oxo alpha-amino acid derivatives in good yields and up to 96% ee. The reaction of an unactivated acyclic diene, 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene, with the N-tosyl alpha-imino ester gives both the aza-Diels-Alder and aza-ene products, in a ratio of 9:1 favoring the aza-Diels-Alder product. Furthermore, a series of different imines have been synthesized and investigated as possible substrates for the present catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction in order to obtain mechanistic insight. All imines studied gave moderate to high ee. Particularly, the reaction of the N-phenyl and N-p-methoxyphenyl substituted glyoxylate imines with Danishefsky's diene proceeded well affording the corresponding aza-Diels-Alder product in high yield with up to 91% ee at room temperature. The present catalytic enantioselective reaction of imines provided an effective route to optically active nonproteinogenic alpha-amino acids. The products of the catalytic enantioselective aza-Diels-Alder reaction of the cyclic dienes can be used for the preparation of key compounds such as natural products and compounds of pharmaceutical interest. The absolute configurations of five products have been solved by X-ray structural analysis, and it is found that the absolute configuration of the aza-Diels-Alder adduct is dependent on the substituent on the imine nitrogen atom. It turned out that the N-tosyl glyoxylate imine and N-p-methoxyphenyl glyoxylate imine give the aza-Diels-Alder adduct with opposite absolute configuration using the same enantiomer of the catalyst. On the basis of the results the mechanistic aspects for the reactions are discussed.     

Synthesis of 7,7’-Disubstituted BINAP and Their Application in Asymmetric Catalytic Reaction

The design of new chiral ligands plays a very important role in the development of transition metal catalyzed asymmetric synthesis. Many chiral diphosphine ligands have been prepared and applied in asymmetric catalytic reactions with excellent enantioselectivities. Among the chiral diphosphine ligands reported, BINAP was found to have been the widest application in the transition metal catalyzed reaction. Recently we have developed a novel oxovanadium (Ⅳ) complex catalyst for the oxidative …     

A flexible and versatile strategy for the covalent immobilization of chiral catalysts based on pyridinebis(oxazoline) ligands

[reaction: see text] Flexible and versatile methods have been developed for the immobilization of chiral pyridinebis(oxazoline) ligands by covalent bonding to a solid support, either by grafting or by polymerization. Different spacers can easily be introduced to modulate the support-ligand distance and the electronic properties of the chiral ligand. As an example, 2,6-bis[(S)-4-isopropyloxazolin-2-yl]pyridine has been immobilized on polystyrene resins, both on a Merrifield-type resin by grafting and on supports prepared by polymerization of 4-vinyl-substituted ligands. The corresponding Ru complexes have been tested as catalysts in the cyclopropanation reaction between styrene and ethyl diazoacetate. The catalytic activity, the enantioselectivity, and the recyclability are strongly dependent on the catalyst preparation method and the total exclusion of oxygen and moisture in the filtration process. Under such optimized conditions, yields over 60% with up to 90% ee can be obtained in four successive reactions-the best cyclopropanation results described to date for a chiral solid ruthenium catalyst.     

Asymmetric Henry reaction catalyzed by C2-symmetric tridentate bis(oxazoline) and bis(thiazoline) complexes: metal-controlled reversal of enantioselectivity

[reaction: see text] C(2)-symmetric tridentate bis(oxazoline) and bis(thiazoline) ligands with a diphenylamine backbone have been investigated in the catalytic asymmetric Henry reaction of alpha-keto esters with different Lewis acids. Their Cu(OTf)(2) complexes furnished S enantiomers, while Et(2)Zn complexes afforded R enantiomers, both of them with higher enantioselectivities (up to 85% ee). Reversal of enantioselectivity in asymmetric Henry reactions was achieved with the same chiral ligand by changing the Lewis acid center from Cu(II) to Zn(II). The results show that the NH group in C(2)-symmetric tridentate chiral ligands plays a very important role in controlling both the yields and enantiofacial selectivity of the Henry products.     

Self-supported heterogeneous titanium catalysts for enantioselective carbonyl-ene and sulfoxidation reactions

A new strategy for the heterogenization of chiral titanium complexes was developed by the in situ assembly of bridged multitopic BINOL ligands with [Ti(OiPr)4] without using a support. The assembled heterogeneous catalysts (self-supported) showed excellent enantioselectivity in both the carbonyl-ene reaction of alpha-methylstyrene with ethyl glyoxylate (up to 98 % ee) and the oxidation of sulfides (up to >99 % ee). The catalytic performance of these heterogeneous catalytic systems was comparable or even superior to that attained with their homogeneous counterparts. The spacers between the two BINOL units of the ligands in the assembled catalysts had significant impact on the enantioselectivity of the carbonyl-ene reaction. This demonstrates the importance of the supramolecular structures of the assemblies on their catalytic behavior. In the catalysis of sulfoxidation, the self-supported heterogeneous titanium catalysts were highly stable and could be readily recycled and reused for over one month (at least eight cycles) without significant loss of activity and enantioselectivity (up to >99.9 % ee). The features of these self-supported catalysts, such as facile preparation, robust chiral structure of solid-state catalysts, high density of the catalytically active units in the solids, as well as easy recovery and simple recycling, are particularly important in developing methods for the synthesis of optically active compounds in industrial processes.     

A new class of versatile chiral-bridged atropisomeric diphosphine ligands: remarkably efficient ligand syntheses and their applications in highly enantioselective hydrogenation reactions

A series of chiral diphosphine ligands denoted as PQ-Phos was prepared by atropdiastereoselective Ullmann coupling and ring-closure reactions. The Ullmann coupling reaction of the biaryl diphosphine dioxides is featured by highly efficient central-to-axial chirality transfer with diastereomeric excess >99%. This substrate-directed diastereomeric biaryl coupling reaction is unprecedented for the preparation of chiral diphosphine dioxides, and our method precludes the tedious resolution procedures usually required for preparing enantiomerically pure diphosphine ligands. The effect of chiral recognition was also revealed in a relevant asymmetric ring-closure reaction. The chiral tether bridging the two aryl units creates a conformationally rigid scaffold essential for enantiofacial differentiation; fine-tuning of the ligand scaffold (e.g., dihedral angles) can be achieved by varying the chain length of the chiral tether. The enantiomerically pure Ru- and Ir-PQ-Phos complexes have been prepared and applied to the catalytic enantioselective hydrogenations of alpha- and beta-ketoesters (C=O bond reduction), 2-(6'-methoxy-2'-naphthyl)propenoic acid, alkyl-substituted beta-dehydroamino acids (C=C bond reduction), and N-heteroaromatic compounds (C=N bond reduction). An excellent level of enantioselection (up to 99.9% ee) has been attained for the catalytic reactions. In addition, the significant ligand dihedral angle effects on the Ir-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of N-heteroaromatic compounds were also revealed.     

Highly efficient iridium catalyst for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones under base-free conditions

[reaction: see text] Catalytic systems generated in situ from the chiral PNNP ligands with iridium or rhodium hydride complexes exhibited excellent catalytic activity and good enantioselectivity in the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of aromatic ketones without added base. The best result was obtained in the IrH(CO)(PPh(3))(3)-ligand 2 catalytic system with up to 99% yield and 97% ee.     

Catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions of glycine derivatives with imines. A new approach to optically active alpha,beta-diamino acid derivatives

Imines of glycine alkyl esters react with imines in a diastereo- and highly enantioselective Mannich reaction in the presence of chiral copper(I) complexes as the catalyst to give optically active alpha,beta-diamino acid derivatives. A series of imines of glycine esters derived from glycine and aromatic carbonyl compounds has been screened as substrates for the Mannich reaction with different imines in the presence of various combinations of metal salts and chiral ligands. The benzophenone imine of glycine esters was found to react with N-protected imines in a diastereoselective fashion giving functionalized alpha,beta-diamino acid esters with excellent enantioselectivities. The most effective chiral catalysts are chiral copper(I) complexes having phosphino-oxazoline (P,N)-ligands, and among these ligands, those derived from (1R,2S)-dihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene gave the best results. The scope of this new catalytic asymmetric reaction of the benzophenone imine glycine esters is demonstrated for the reaction with different N-protected-C-aryl and C-alkyl imines giving the Mannich adducts with excellent optical purity. Furthermore, the synthetic aspects of the reaction are presented by converting the Mannich adducts into alpha,beta-diamino acid derivatives. The relative and absolute configuration of the Mannich adduct have been determined and based on the stereochemical outcome of the reaction a tetrahedral chiral-copper(I)-imino glycine alkyl ester intermediate is proposed. In this intermediate the Re-face of the benzophenone imine glycine ester is shielded by the chiral ligand leaving the Si-face available for approach of the Si-face of the imine. A series of semiempirical calculations has been performed to support the structure of the tetrahedral chiral-copper(I) complex and to account for the influence of the substituents in the chiral phosphino-oxazoline ligands.     

AraBOX and XyliBOX based catalysts for cyclopropanations,Diels Alder cycloadditions and allylic additions

The syntheses of three novel chiral 4,4′BOX ligands are described. The three ligands each have a chiral backbone and chiral sidearms, two of which are diastereomeric. These new ligands have been applied as copper complexes to asymmetric cyclopropanation reaction of styrene with ethyldiazoacetate. Enantioselectivities of up to 70% were obtained, which is the highest ee reported from the use of this ligand class in this reaction to date. The multiple stereogenic centres in the ligand resulted in a substantial additive effect and this is discussed along with interpretation of the results for previously described 4,4′BOX ligands, and a major computational study of the multiple reaction channels involved with ligands of this type. The use of complexes of 4,4′BOX ligands, as catalysts, in an allylic alkylation is also reported for the first time and ee’s of >70% have been achieved in this reaction. These ligands were also applied to a Diels–Alder test reaction and again outperformed previous examples of this ligand type.     

Gold(I) Complexes Stabilized by Nine- and Ten-Membered N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands

Nine- and ten-membered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands have been developed and for the first time their gold(I) complexes were synthesized. The protonated NHC pro-ligands 2 a – h were prepared by the reaction of readily available N,N′-diarylformamidines with bis-electrophilic building blocks, followed by anion exchange. In situ deprotonation of the tetrafluoroborates 2 a – h with tBuOK in the presence of AuCl(SMe₂) provided fast access to NHC-gold(I) complexes 3 – 10 . These new NHC-gold(I) complexes show very good catalytic activity in a cycloisomerization reaction (0.1 mol % catalyst loading, up to 100 % conversion) and their solid-state structures reveal high steric hindrance around the metal atom (%V_bur up to 53.0) which is caused by their expanded-ring architecture.     

金鸡纳生物碱的金属络合物用于苯乙酮的不对称催化还原

金鸡纳生物碱的金属络合物用于苯乙酮的不对称催化还原刘湘（无锡轻工大学化工系无锡２１４０３６）李纪国张正（南京大学化学系南京２１００９３）关键词金鸡纳生物碱手性络合物不对称还原苯乙酮分类号Ｏ６４３．３２近１０多年来，前手性酮的不对称还原反应作为制备光学...