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Rhodium-Catalyzed B-H Bond Insertion Reactions of Unstabilized Diazo Compounds Generated in Situ from Tosylhydrazones
Pang, Yue,He, Qiao,Li, Zi-Qi,Yang, Ji-Min,Yu, Jin-Han,Zhu, Shou-Fei,Zhou, Qi-Lin
supporting information, p. 10663 - 10668 (2018/09/06)
Although transition-metal-catalyzed B-H bond insertion of carbenes into stable borane adducts has emerged as a promising method for organoborane synthesis, all the diazo compounds used to date as carbene precursors have had an electron-withdrawing group to stabilize them. Herein, we report a protocol for rhodium-catalyzed B-H bond insertion reactions of unstabilized diazo compounds generated in situ from tosylhydrazones. In addition, by using chiral dirhodium catalysts, we also achieved an asymmetric version of the reaction with good to excellent enantioselectivities (up to 98:2 e.r.). This is the first enantioselective heteroatom-hydrogen bond insertion reaction to use unstabilized diazo compounds as carbene precursors. The protocol exhibited good functional group tolerance and could be carried out on a gram scale. It also enabled one-pot transformation of a carbonyl group to a boryl group enantioselectively. The B-H bond insertion products could be easily transformed into chiral alcohols and other widely used organoboron reagents with enantiomeric fidelity.
Amine-boranes bearing borane-incompatible functionalities: Application to selective amine protection and surface functionalization
Veeraraghavan Ramachandran,Kulkarni, Ameya S.,Zhao, Yan,Mei, Jianguo
supporting information, p. 11885 - 11888 (2016/10/09)
The first general open-flask synthesis of amine-boranes with inexpensive and readily available reagents, such as sodium borohydride, sodium bicarbonate, water, and the desired amines is described. Even amines bearing borane-reactive functionalities, such as alkene, alkyne, hydroxyl, thiol, ester, amide, nitrile, and nitro are well tolerated. Some of these novel amine-boranes represent stable molecules containing potentially incompatible electrophilic and nucleophilic centers in proximity. This convenient scalable synthesis provides a novel class of organic ligands for surface functionalization, as demonstrated by the formation of self-assembled layers of thiol- and alkoxysilane-bearing amine-boranes on gold and silica surfaces, respectively.
Mechanisms of the thermal and catalytic redistributions, oligomerizations, and polymerizations of linear diborazanes
Robertson, Alasdair P. M.,Leitao, Erin M.,Jurca, Titel,Haddow, Mairi F.,Helten, Holger,Lloyd-Jones, Guy C.,Manners, Ian
supporting information, p. 12670 - 12683 (2013/09/23)
Linear diborazanes R3N-BH2-NR2-BH 3 (R = alkyl or H) are often implicated as key intermediates in the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of amine-boranes to form oligo- and polyaminoboranes. Here we report detailed studies of the reactivity of three related examples: Me3N-BH2-NMe2-BH3 (1), Me3N-BH2-NHMe-BH3 (2), and MeNH 2-BH2-NHMe-BH3 (3). The mechanisms of the thermal and catalytic redistributions of 1 were investigated in depth using temporal-concentration studies, deuterium labeling, and DFT calculations. The results indicated that, although the products formed under both thermal and catalytic regimes are identical (Me3N·BH3 (8) and [Me2N-BH2]2 (9a)), the mechanisms of their formation differ significantly. The thermal pathway was found to involve the dissociation of the terminal amine to form [H2B(μ-H)(μ-NMe 2)BH2] (5) and NMe3 as intermediates, with the former operating as a catalyst and accelerating the redistribution of 1. Intermediate 5 was then transformed to amine-borane 8 and the cyclic diborazane 9a by two different mechanisms. In contrast, under catalytic conditions (0.3-2 mol % IrH2POCOP (POCOP = κ3-1,3-(OPtBu 2)2C6H3)), 8 was found to inhibit the redistribution of 1 by coordination to the Ir-center. Furthermore, the catalytic pathway involved direct formation of 8 and Me2Ni - BH2 (9b), which spontaneously dimerizes to give 9a, with the absence of 5 and BH3 as intermediates. The mechanisms elucidated for 1 are also likely to be applicable to other diborazanes, for example, 2 and 3, for which detailed mechanistic studies are impaired by complex post-redistribution chemistry. This includes both metal-free and metal-mediated oligomerization of MeNHi - BH2 (10) to form oligoaminoborane [MeNH-BH 2]x (11) or polyaminoborane [MeNH-BH2] n (16) following the initial redistribution reaction.
