Facile and new convenient route for synthesis of some C2-symmetric bidentate phosphine ligands derived from d-mannitol

The preparation of two novel C₂ symmetric bidentate phosphine ligands derived from cheap and available D-mannitol has been reported. These new ligands accompanied by unprecedented one-pot reaction for the regioselective reductive opening of 1,3:4,6-di-O-benzylidene-D-mannitol have been achieved. All reported compounds are fully characterized by standard analytical methods including the measurement of optical activities.     

Double Michael addition of azoles to methyl propiolate: a straightforward entry to ligands with two heterocyclic rings

The synthesis of methyl bis(azol-1-yl)propionates is reported for the first time. These bridge-functionalized bis(azol-1-yl)methanes are prepared by a double Michael addition of azoles to methyl propiolate, representing a new methodology for the synthesis of polydentate ligands.     

A new C2-symmetric azolium compound for Cu-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of R2Zn to cyclic enone

A new chiral N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand was designed. Thus, an efficient synthetic route to C₂-symmetric bis(hydroxyamide)-functionalized benzimidazolium salts from chiral β-amino alcohols was developed. The combination of Cu(OTf)₂ and the chiral azolium compound efficiently promoted the conjugate addition reaction of cyclic enone with dialkylzinc to give the corresponding adduct in good yield. Among a series of chiral NHC proligands, the functionalized benzimidazolium chloride possessing a tert-butyl group as a stereodirecting group was found to be the best choice of ligand. Under optimized reaction conditions, an excellent enantioselectivity (96% ee) was realized by allowing 2-cyclohepten-1-one to react with Bu₂Zn at room temperature.     

A general and convenient route to oxazolyl ligands

A diverse range of chiral and achiral oxazolyl ligands, which have many applications including catalysis and luminescent devices, are synthesized simply in three steps from readily available and inexpensive phenol and amino alcohol starting materials. The method can be applied to ligands with electron-donating/-withdrawing and sterically demanding/undemanding substituents, and can conveniently be scaled up to >25 g of product.     

Nucleophilic addition to organotransition metal cations containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands : A survey and interpretation

Three simple rules are proposed that enable the prediction of the most favourable position of nucleophilic attack on 18 electron organotransition metal cations containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands.     

Platinum (II) phosphine complexes with acetylene ligands containing 1,4,5,8-naphthalenediimide: Synthesis, crystal structure and electrochemistry

A new acetylene ligand modified with the electron-accepting 1,4,5,8-naphthalenediimide group and its Pt(II) phosphine complexes are reported. The Pt(II) complexes incorporate optical properties of the imide group, and display two reversible imide-centred reduction processes.     

Nucleophilic addition of 2-hydroxyquinoxaline to acetylenes

Vinylation of 2-hydroxyquinoxaline affords either 2-vinyloxyquinoxaline or 1-vinyl-2-quinoxalone depending on the reaction conditions. The reactions of 2-hydroxyquinoxaline with 3-phenylprop-2-ynonitrile or 4-hydroxyalk-2-ynonitriles yield 3-phenyl-3-(quinoxalyl-2-oxy)prop-2-enonitrile or 4-hydroxy-3-(quinoxalyl-2-oxy)alk-2-enonitriles, respectively. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 738–741, April, 2000.     

Polystyrene-supported amino alcohol ligands for the heterogeneous asymmetric addition of phenyl zinc reagents to aldehydes

A family of polystyrene-supported amino alcohols, characterized by a high catalytic activity in alkyl transfer from zinc to formyl groups has been successfully tested in the enantioselective addition of phenyl zinc reagents to aldehydes to afford chiral diarylmethanols. Enantioselectivities higher than 90% (mean ee 90.5%; eight examples) are recorded with aromatic aldehydes in what represents the first successful use of heterogeneous, polymeric reagents for enantiocontrol in the phenylation of aldehydes.     

Iron catalysis for the synthesis of ligands: Exploring the products of hydrophosphination as ligands in cross-coupling

Catalytic hydrophosphination is a useful technique for the synthesis of phosphines, however, the phosphine products have been little exploited as ligands in catalysis. We have selected three phosphines prepared by iron catalyzed hydrophosphination and used them as ligands in a series of cross-coupling reactions: Heck, Suzuki-Miyaura and Buchwald-Hartwig. Rather than limit the chemistry to simple cross-coupling partners which are almost guaranteed to perform well in these transformations, industrially relevant substrates which are challenging from and electronic and/or steric perspective, along with substrates which contain several heteroatoms, were explored in order to gauge the true potential of these phosphine ligands.     

Mannich reaction as a new route to pyridine-based polyaminocarboxylic ligands

The Mannich reaction was successfully employed to obtain two pyridine-based ligands 1 and 2. The latter represents the first example of a Mannich reaction leading to a 12-membered pyridine-containing macrocycle. [reaction: see text]     

Syntheses and crystal structures of Dimolybdenum complexes containing P2 and functionalized Cyclopentadienyl ligands

The dimolybdenum complex [(η⁵-RC₅H₄)₂Mo₂(CO)₆] (1, R = CH₃CO; II, R = CH₃O₂C) reacts with an equimolar amount of white phosphorus P₄ to yield the corresponding dimolybdenum complex containing the P₂ ligand [(η⁵-RC₅H₄)₂Mo₂(CO)₄(μ,η²-P₂)] (1, R = CH₃CO; 2, R = CH₃O₂C) in moderate yield. The two new compounds have been characterized by elemental analyses, ¹H?NMR, ¹³C?NMR, ³¹ P?NMR and IR spectroscopies and their crystal structures have been determined by X-ray diffraction methods.     

Tandem Sakurai-aldol addition reactions as a route to structurally complex carbocycles

Tandem intramolecular Sakurai-aldol reactions provide a concise and highly diastereoselective route to substituted cyclohexenone derivatives. The cyclization substrates are readily obtained using olefin isomerization-Claisen rearrangement (ICR) reactions to prepare the key chiral allyl silane precursors. The Claisen reaction products are elaborated to the chiral Sakurai-aldol substrates by an efficient two-step sequence involving vinyl organometallic-aldehyde addition and oxidation of the resulting alcohol. The reaction of the resulting enones with TiCl(4) elicits a highly stereoselective allyl silane conjugate addition to produce a trichlorotitanium enolate as the reaction intermediate; intermolecular trapping of the enolate with an aldehyde provides pentasubstituted cyclohexanone derivatives in which the annulation reaction establishes four stereocenters and two new C-C bonds. A fully intramolecular variant of the Sakurai-aldol reaction that creates four stereocenters, two new C-C bonds, and establishes two new carbocyclic rings is also described.     

Palladium-catalyzed one-pot Suzuki coupling followed by arylpalladium addition to aldehyde: a convenient route to fluoren-9-one derivatives

Various fluoren-9-one derivatives were prepared efficiently by a one-pot reaction involving sequential Suzuki coupling of 2-bromophenyl boronic acid with 2-bromocarboxaldehyde followed by intramolecular arylpalladium addition to aldehyde.     

Phosphine oxides as stabilizing ligands for the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of potassium aryldimethylsilanolates

The palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of potassium (4-methoxyphenyl)dimethylsilanolate (K⁺1⁻) with aryl bromides has been demonstrated using triphenylphosphine oxide as a stabilizing ligand. Unsymmetrical biaryls can be prepared from a variety of aryl bromides in good yield with short reaction times. Qualitative kinetic studies compared effects of different phosphine oxides on the rate of cross-coupling and established the beneficial effect of these ligands in the reaction of electron-rich arylsilanolates. The improved yield and reproducibility of the cross-coupling of several bromides was demonstrated by direct comparison of reactions performed with and without triphenylphosphine oxide under non-rigorous exclusion of oxygen.     

A convenient synthetic route to a useful synthon: 4-bromo-2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde

We have developed a novel four-step method to synthesise 4-bromo-2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde, from 2-picoline-N-oxide via 4-nitro-2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde, under mild reaction conditions.     

Transamination of 2-piperidinochromanes with (het)arylamines as a convenient route to 2-(het)arylaminochromanes

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Nucleophilic addition of 2-(trimethylsilyloxy)furan to a d-glucopyranose oxocarbenium ion

Cp₂Zr(ClO₄)₂ was used as a promoter for nucleophilic addition of 2-(trimethylsilyloxy) furan (TMSOF) to 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-d-glucopyranosyl fluoride to give a 2:1:1 mixture of adducts in 80% yield. NMR data and postulated transition states are consistent with a 3:1 ratio of regioisomers at C-5 and C-3 of TMSOF and a 2:1 ratio of threo and erythro α-adducts at C-5.     

Modular amino alcohol ligands containing bulky alkyl groups as chiral controllers for Et2Zn addition to aldehydes: illustration of a design principle

A new family of enantiomerically pure (1S,2R)-1-alkyl-2-(dialkylamino)-3-(R-oxy)-1-propanols containing a very bulky alkyl substituent (tert-butyl or 1-adamantyl) on their hydrocarbon chains has been synthesized from the corresponding enantiopure epoxy alcohols, arising from the catalytic Sharpless epoxidation, by protection of the primary hydroxy group and subsequent regioselective ring opening of the epoxide by a secondary cyclic amine (C-2 attack). The performance of these amino alcohols as ligands for the catalytic enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to benzaldehyde has been studied, with enantioselectivities of 92-96% being recorded. The best performing ligands, those with a bulky R-oxy group, also depict a convenient activity and selectivity profile in the addition of Et(2)Zn to a representative family of aldehydes. An anomalous structure/enantioselectivity relationship of some ligands in the tert-butyl series has been studied using PM3 calculations, and conclusions have been drawn on the possible effects of including in modular designs structural fragments giving rise to a variety of rotameric transition states.     

The hetero-Diels-Alder addition of ethyl 2-nitrosoacrylate to electron-rich alkenes as a route to unnatural α-amino acids

A new method for the stereoselective synthesis of nonproteinogenic α-amino acids has been developed, which involves hetero-Diels-Alder addition of ethyl 2-nitrosoacrylate to electron-rich alkenes, such as enol ethers, enamines and allylsilanes, and a further two or three step manipulation of the resulting oxazines.