New approaches to enantioselective fluorination: Cinchona alkaloids combinations and chiral ligands/metal complexes

The selective construction of carbon-fluorine bonds is of great interest to medicinal chemists because the replacement of a hydrogen or an oxygen atom with a fluorine atom in biologically active molecules can confer the molecules with improved physicochemical properties and biological activities. Since the first discovery of enantioselective fluorination using N-fluorocamphorsultam, our synthetic interest had been focused on the development of chiral N-fluorosulfonamide derivatives capable of enantioselective fluorination. However, these initial efforts revealed several limitations in both chemical yields and enantioselectivities of the fluorinated products. We present here the background of our personal story of the enantioselective fluorination reaction and some successful applications of the methods to the design and synthesis of biologically active products. Two novel approaches using cinchona alkaloid/Selectfluor^® combinations and chiral ligands/metal complexes have been pursued, respectively. In addition, the recent advances in this area by other groups are also described briefly.     

含金鸡纳碱的光活性聚合物──Ⅰ．金鸡纳碱／丙烯酰胺共聚物的合成与表征

研究了金鸡纳碱与丙烯酰胺的自由基共聚反应。发现在氯仿／乙醇混合溶剂中采用硫酸奎宁作为金鸡纳碱共聚单体可以合成收率和金鸡纳碱含量均较高的新型水溶性共聚物。对共聚物用元素分析、核磁共振、粘度和旋光度测定等方法进行表征，发现在假定丙烯酰胺链节为非光活性的条件下共聚物中金鸡纳碱链节的比旋光度随聚合配方中金鸡纳碱含量的增加而增加。     

A study of the behaviour of some new column materials in the chromatographic analysis of Cinchona alkaloids

Summary A major problem in the HPLC analysis of alkaloids is the poor peak shape and consequently low resolution, due to the interactions of the basic alkaloids with the residual acidic silanol groups of most reversed phase materials. The performance of new packing materials specially designed for the separation of basic compounds has been studied using mobile phases without the special additives commonly applied in the analysis of alkaloids. Strongly basic Cinchona alkaloids were used as test compounds. Retention characteristics and selectivities of each material were studied, after mobile phase optimisation for the column. The influence of the major factors (nature and content of the organic modifier, pH value, salt concentration) affecting resolution was studied. The mobile phases were chosen so that they could be used in thermospray LC-MS. The addition of salts to the mobile phase improves separation but in general the modification of the mobile phase gave little change in selectivity. The performance of silicabased C₁₈ material proved superior to the polymer materials tested.     

手性膦氮配体的合成及其钯配合物催化的不对称烯丙基烷基化反应

以价廉的天然产物辛可宁和奎宁为原料,在温和的条件下方便地合成了两个手性膦氮配体.考察了它们与过渡金属钯配合物在不对称烯丙基烷基化反应中的催化活性和不对称诱导作用.在1,3-二苯基-2-烯丙基-1-醇的乙酸酯与丙二酸二甲酯的反应中,两个配体均表现出中等的手性诱导活性(最高为73.5%e.e.).     

Synthesis of highly decorated chiral 2-nitro-cyclohexane carboxylic esters through microwave-assisted organocatalyzed cascade reactions

Starting from (E)-β-substituted-β-nitroacrylates and α,β-unsaturated ketones, a stereoselective organocatalyzed one-pot methodology allowed to synthesize highly decorated chiral 2-nitro-cyclohexane carboxylic esters. The reaction is promoted by Cinchona alkaloid-derived primary amines in the presence of an acidic co-catalyst and affords two diastereoisomers, in good yields and high enantiomeric excess (often higher than 90% ee). By replacing conventional heating with microwave irradiation, cleaner reactions in shortened times (from 48 h to 30 min) were obtained, with improved dr (80:20) and high ee (up to 94%). The application of microwave technology to this organocatalytic methodology allowed also employing C1 substituted enones, leading to cyclohexanones with four contiguous stereocenters in two isomers only, and up to 99% enantioselectivity.     

Novel chiral stationary phases based on peptoid combining a quinine/quinidine moiety through a C9‐position carbamate group

By connecting a quinine or quinidine moiety to the peptoid chain through the C9‐position carbamate group, we synthesized two new chiral selectors. After immobilizing them onto 3‐mercaptopropyl‐modified silica gel, two novel chiral stationary phases were prepared. With neutral, acid, and basic chiral compounds as analytes, we evaluated these two stationary phases and compared their chromatographic performance with chiral columns based on quinine tert‐butyl carbamate and the previous peptoid. From the resolution of neutral and basic analytes under normal‐phase mode, it was found that the new stationary phases exhibited much better enantioselectivity than the quinine tert‐butyl carbamate column; the peptoid moiety played an important role in enantiorecognition, which controlled the elution orders of enantiomers; the assisting role of the cinchona alkaloid moieties was observed in some separations. Under acid polar organic phase mode, it was proved that cinchona alkaloid moieties introduced excellent enantiorecognitions for chiral acid compounds; in some separations, the peptoid moiety affected enantioseparations as well. Overall, chiral moieties with specific enantioselectivity were demonstrated to improve the performance of peptoid chiral stationary phase efficiently.     

有机催化吲哚碳环上的不对称Friedel⁃Crafts烷基化反应

将金鸡纳碱衍生物双功能催化剂用于有机催化羟基吲哚与靛红的不对称Friedel-Crafts反应, 筛选出最佳反应条件: 催化剂为5%(摩尔分数)6′-脱甲基奎尼丁(1b), 溶剂为四氢呋喃, 反应温度 0 ℃. 以67%~91%的产率和最高达97%的对映选择性获得了苯环上取代的羟基烷基化产品. 拓宽了该反应的催化剂类型和底物范围.     

金鸡纳碱衍生物修饰的负载铱催化剂催化芳香酮不对称加氢

以金鸡纳碱衍生物作为手性修饰剂, 研究了三苯基膦稳定的Ir/SiO₂催化剂催化芳香酮多相不对称加氢. 通过电感耦合等离子体原子发射发谱(ICP-AES)、高分辨透射电镜(HRTEM)、X 射线光电子能谱(XPS)、Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET)比表面积测试等固体表面分析手段对负载铱催化体系进行了表征; 利用红外(IR)光谱、固体核磁共振(NMR)等分析手段初步表征了负载铱多相催化体系中手性修饰剂-金属-稳定剂在载体上的相互作用; 利用“均相与多相催化体系的对比”、“催化剂稳定性实验”、“汞中毒实验”等方法阐明了手性修饰的负载铱催化体系是多相催化体系. 还考察了稳定剂种类、修饰剂种类、金属负载量、溶剂、碱添加剂种类等因素对不对称加氢反应的影响. 结果表明, 金鸡纳碱衍生物对Ir/SiO₂催化剂具有较好的修饰作用, 在优化反应条件下苯乙酮及其衍生物加氢反应的对映选择性为52%-96%, 4-乙酰基吡啶、2-乙酰基噻吩及2-乙酰基呋喃加氢反应的对映选择性可分别达到74%、75%及63%.