不对称自动催化研究进展

不对称自动催化是指由不对称反应生成的手性产物自身作为催化剂的反应过程, 在这类反应体系中, 催化剂自动放大倍增, 可简捷高效地制备高选择性的对映异构体, 在不对称催化和合成研究方面是一个新的领域。日本学者K. Soai 自90 年代以来, 在发现和研究高对映体选择性自动催化体系方面的重要贡献受到广泛关注。本文综述了近年来不对称自动催化反应的新进展。     

手性自负载催化剂研究新进展

催化剂的负载和回收再利用是提高其使用效率、降低反应成本和减少金属离子对产物污染的一条有效途径。与传统的负载模式不同, 手性自负载催化剂通过含双或多官能团的手性配体与金属通过自组装形成一类有机-无机聚合物,因此无需使用任何载体,即能够有效地实现手性催化剂的回收和再利用。近年来,手性自负载催化剂作为一种新的负载模式,已经成功地应用于一些非均相催化的不对称反应中。本文概述了手性自负载催化剂的在一些不对称催化反应研究中取得的新进展。     

电喷雾质谱法研究不对称催化反应进展

总结了ESI-MS在研究不对称催化反应上的应用,包括ESI-MS技术测定不对称催化反应产物ee值和ESI-MS技术表征不对称催化反应中的活性中间体/复合物,并进一步讨论了以此两种ESI-MS技术为基础的不对称反应对映选择性的评估和高通量手性催化剂筛选.     

神奇的手性螺环配体

过渡金属参与的不对称催化反应是有机合成化学研究的前沿和热点. 寻找和发现新颖配体骨架并开展新型高效的手性配体及催化剂的设计合成是不对称催化反应研究的核心内容. 从20世纪90年代,特别是进入21世纪以来,螺环骨架手性配体受到了广泛的关注,并逐渐发展成为特色鲜明的手性配体类别. 手性螺环配体的骨架已由多手性的螺[4.4]壬烷骨架发展到只具有单一手性的螺二氢茚和螺[4.4]壬二烯等螺环骨架类型,形成了包括手性螺环单磷配体、双膦配体、膦氮配体、双氮配体等丰富的手性配体库. 这些手性螺环配体及其催化剂不仅在不对称催化氢化、不对称碳―碳键形成、不对称碳―杂原子键形成等多种类型的不对称催化反应中均表现出优异的催化活性和对映选择性,且使得许多原先难以控制对映选择性的不对称催化反应变得可能. 而今,手性螺环结构已成为“优势结构”,相应的手性螺环配体及其催化剂已被国内外同行广泛采用. 手性螺环配体的兴起为手性催化剂研究增加了活力,极大地促进了不对称合成化学的发展. 今后,手性螺环配体的研究除了将向新型、高效、高选择性手性配体及催化剂方向发展外,将其应用于新的不对称催化反应的对映选择性控制、以及应用于手性天然产物和药物的高效不对称合成将成为新的研究热点.     

过渡金属催化的碳氢键官能团化反应合成平面手性二茂铁化合物

在不对称催化反应中,平面手性二茂铁化合物是一类非常高效的手性配体和催化剂.从原子和步骤经济性方面考虑,与传统方法相比不对称碳氢键直接官能团化反应是构建平面手性二茂铁最简洁有效的方法.综述了铜、钯、铑、铱、金和铂等过渡金属催化的不对称碳氢键官能团化反应合成平面手性二茂铁化合物的最新进展.此外,还介绍了利用这些方法合成多种平面手性二茂铁配体和催化剂及其不对称催化反应.     

催化不对称Michalel加成反应的新进展

总结了近年催化不对称Michael加成反应的新方法，包括手性金属络合物催化 的反应，呈手性Lewis酸性的手性金属络合物促进的不对称加成，手性冠醚络合物 催化的反应及其它催化反应。     

手性炔丙醇的不对称催化合成研究进展

手性炔丙醇是一种重要中间体化合物,作为合成多种光学活性化合物的重要合成前体受到学者们广泛关注。目前通过酮的不对称催化反应合成手性炔丙醇的研究开发具有极大发展前景,因此本文围绕酮类化合物的不对称催化反应来进行综述,结合相关反应最新研究进展,全面总结并分类了不对称催化还原、催化不对称加成等反应类型,介绍了合成不同结构手性炔丙醇的新思路,并对酮的不对称催化反应在未来能成为工业化重要生产途径作出展望。     

手性配体催化二烷基锌—羰基不对称加成制光活性醇的反应

关于手性配体催化二烷基锌一羰基的不对称加成生成光活性醇的反应,从催化剂、不对称催化机理与自催化过程、手性放大等方面进行了概述,参考文献50篇。     

手性(salen)Co在不对称催化反应和天然产物合成中 的应用

手性(salen)Co是最近几年发展起来的一种重要的不对称催化剂,受到人们的广泛重视。综述了手性(salen)Co在不对称催化反应和天然产物合成中的一些最新研究进展。     

联二萘酚配合物催化的不对称异原子Diels-Alder反应研究进展

光学活性的联二萘酚及其衍生物作为优良的手性配体在不对称催化反应中的研究已经取得重大进展,本文概述了近些年来以联二萘酚及其衍生物为手性配体和各种金属盐形成的配合物作为手性催化剂在不对称催化的异原子Diels-Alder反应中的应用.总结了各种基于联二萘酚及其衍生物的用于异原子Diels-Alder反应的新的催化剂,以及能有效不对称催化该反应的新条件及新方法.     

Asymmetric autocatalysis of pyrimidyl alkanol and related compounds. Self-replication,amplification of chirality and implication for the origin of biological enantioenriched chirality

We discovered asymmetric autocatalysis in the enantioselective addition of diisopropylzinc to pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde, where the product 5-pyrimidyl alkanol acts as a highly efficient asymmetric autocatalyst to afford more of itself (Soai reaction). Asymmetric autocatalysis proceeded quantitatively (>99% yield), affording itself as a near enantiomerically pure (>99.5% ee) product. An extremely low enantiomeric excess (ca. 0.00005% ee) can automultiply during three rounds of consecutive asymmetric autocatalysis to >99.5% ee by asymmetric amplification. Circularly polarized light, and inorganic and organic crystals, act as the origin of chirality to trigger asymmetric autocatalysis. Asymmetric autocatalysis has enormous power to recognize and amplify the chirality of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen isotopomers. Moreover, absolute asymmetric synthesis, i.e., the formation of enantioenriched compounds without the intervention of any chiral factor, is realized by asymmetric autocatalysis. By using designed molecules based on 5-pyrimidyl alkanol, the intramolecular asymmetric control, self-replication, and improvement of chiral multifunctionalized large molecules has been developed by applying asymmetric autocatalysis.     

Amplification of chirality as a pathway to biological homochirality

Amplification of enantiomeric enrichment is a key feature for the chemical evolution of biological homochirality from the origin of chirality. The aggregations of the enantiomers by diastereomeric interactions enable the modification of their enantiomeric excess during some chemical processes. Fluorine-containing chiral compounds possess large amplification effect via distillation, sublimation and achiral chromatography by self-disproportionation. Asymmetric amplifications in enantioselective catalysis occur by the differential formation and reactivity between homochiral and heterochiral aggregate in solution.We described the amplification of ee in asymmetric autocatalysis of 5-pyrimidyl alkanol in the reaction between diisopropylzinc and pyrimidine-5-carbaldehdye. During the reactions extremely low ee (ca. 0.00005% ee) can be amplified to achieve more than 99.5% ee. Since the proposed origins of chirality such as CPL, quartz, chiral organic crystals of achiral compounds and statistical fluctuation of ee can initiate the asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of ee, the proposed origin of chirality can be linked with enantiopure organic compound in conjunction with amplification of ee by asymmetric autocatalysis. In addition, we described that the carbon isotopically chiral compound triggers the asymmetric autocatalysis of 5-pyrimiodyl alkanol to afford the enantioenriched product with the absolute configuration correlated with that of carbon isotope chirality, that is, isotope chirality including hydrogen isotopes can control the enantioselectivity of asymmetric addition of alkyl metal reagent to aldehyde.     

Enantioselective synthesis induced by chiral crystal composed of DL-serine in conjunction with asymmetric autocatalysis

Asymmetric autocatalysis initiated by chiral crystals containing racemic DL-serine was achieved. P- and M-crystals of DL-serine acted as the source of chirality of asymmetric autocatalysis to afford highly enantioenriched (>99.5% ee) (S)- and (R)-pyrimidylalkanols after the amplification of ee. This is the first example of the usage of the crystal, which contains the same number of D- and L-enantiomers as an origin of chirality in enantioselective synthesis.     

Asymmetric autocatalysis and the origin of chiral homogeneity in organic compounds

The discovery and development of asymmetric autocatalysis, in which the structures of the chiral catalyst and the chiral product are the same, are described. Chiral 5-pyrimidyl, 3-quinolyl, and 5-carbamoyl-3-pyridyl alkanols act as highly enantioselective asymmetric autocatalysts in the enantioselective addition of diisopropylzinc to the corresponding aldehydes, such as pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde. 2-Alkynyl-5-pyrimidyl alkanol with an enantiomeric excess (ee) of >99.5% automultiplies practically perfectly as an asymmetric autocatalyst in a yield of >99% and >99.5% ee. Asymmetric autocatalysis with an amplification of ee has thus been realized. Consecutive asymmetric autocatalysis starting with chiral 2-alkynylpyrimidyl alkanol of only 0.6% ee amplifies its ee significantly, and yields itself as the product with >99.5% ee. The reaction of pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde and diisopropylzinc in the presence of chiral initiators with low ee's, such as secondary alcohol, amine, carboxylic acid, mono-substituted [2.2]paracyclophane, and chiral primary alcohols due to deuterium substitution, regulates the absolute configuration of the resulting pyrimidyl alkanols, and the ee of the resulting pyrimidyl alkanol is much higher than that of the chiral initiator. Leucine and [6]helicene with very low ee's, which are known to be induced by circularly polarized light (CPL), also serve as chiral initiators to produce pyrimidyl alkanol with higher ee's. Overall, the process represents the first correlation between the chirality of CPL and an organic compound with very high ee. Chiral inorganic crystals, such as quartz and sodium chlorate, act as chiral inducers in the asymmetric autocatalysis of pyrimidyl alkanol. The process correlates for the first time ever the chirality of inorganic crystals with an organic compound with very high ee.     

Enantioselective synthesis of near enantiopure compound by asymmetric autocatalysis triggered by asymmetric photolysis with circularly polarized light

Right- and left-handed circularly polarized light (CPL) has been proposed as one of the origins of homochirality of biomolecules. However, the enantiomeric excess induced by CPL has been only very low (<2% ee). We found the unprecedented example of asymmetric autocatalysis triggered directly by a chiral physical factor, that is, right- and left-handed CPL, leading to a near enantiopure compound. Asymmetric photolysis of racemic pyrimidyl alkanol by r-CPL irradiation followed by asymmetric autocatalysis affords (R)-pyrimidyl alkanol with >99.5% ee. On the other hand, irradiation with l-CPL affords (S)-pyrimidyl alkanol with >99.5% ee. Thus, chiral physical power, such as CPL, in conjunction with asymmetric autocatalysis, provides a highly enantioenriched compound.     

Principles for designing an achiral receptor promoting asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of chirality

The idea that an achiral receptor can promote asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of chirality is presented and discussed in the light of two models, dubbed ACM1 and ACM2, corresponding to the autocatalytic versions of the classical Kagan and Noyori models for non-linear effects in asymmetric catalysis. The chiral amplifications produced by the two models have been investigated. The results suggest that an achiral receptor working according to the ACM1 model presents distinct advantages over the ACM2 counterpart, both in terms of elegance of design and performance.     

Asymmetric aldol reaction via memory of chirality

Asymmetric aldol reactions of α-amino acid derivatives via memory of chirality were developed. Chiral oxazolidones with contiguous tetra- and trisubstituted chiral centers were obtained in 78-94% ee by the asymmetric aldol reaction followed by intramolecular acylation.     

Enantioselective synthesis utilizing enantiomorphous organic crystal of achiral benzils as a source of chirality in asymmetric autocatalysis

Chiral crystals of achiral benzils act as efficient chiral initiators of asymmetric autocatalysis to afford highly enantioenriched pyrimidyl alkanols whose absolute configurations depend upon the enantiomorph of the crystal used in conjunction with asymmetric autocatalysis with amplification of enantiomeric excess.     

Self‐Replication and Amplification of Enantiomeric Excess of Chiral Multifunctionalized Large Molecules by Asymmetric Autocatalysis

Self‐replication of large chiral molecular architectures is one of the great challenges and interests in synthetic, systems, and prebiotic chemistry. Described herein is a new chemical system in which large chiral multifunctionalized molecules possess asymmetric autocatalytic self‐replicating and self‐improving abilities, that is, improvement of their enantioenrichment in addition to the diastereomeric ratio. The large chiral multifunctionalized molecules catalyze the production of themselves with the same structure, including the chirality of newly formed asymmetric carbon atoms, in the reaction of the corresponding achiral aldehydes and reagent. The chirality of the large multifunctionalized molecules controlled the enantioselectivity of the reaction in a highly selective manner to construct multiple asymmetric stereogenic centers in a single reaction.     

Crystal Structure of the Isopropylzinc Alkoxide of Pyrimidyl Alkanol: Mechanistic Insights for Asymmetric Autocatalysis with Amplification of Enantiomeric Excess

Asymmetric amplification during self‐replication is a key feature that is used to explain the origin of homochirality. Asymmetric autocatalysis of pyrimidyl alkanol in the asymmetric addition of diisopropylzinc to pyrimidine‐5‐carbaldehyde is a unique example of this phenomenon. Crystallization of zinc alkoxides of this 5‐pyrimidyl alkanol and single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction analysis of the alkoxide crystals reveal the existence of tetramer or higher oligomer structures in this asymmetric autocatalytic system.