one of the most attractive strategies because of the high
utility of the olefinic moiety in subsequent functional
transformations.
Table 1. Dehydrative Intramolecular Asymmetric N-Allylation
of (E)-3 Using (R)-Cl-Naph-PyCOOAll ((R)-1)/[CpRu-
(CH3CN)3]PF6 (2) Combined Catalysta
Scheme 1
Scheme 1 shows one such protocol,5 in which prochiral
ω-amino allylic alcohols masked by an easily removable
N-protecting group (PG) or modified by a post-transformable
moiety dehydratively cyclize. Both Nishizawa/Yamamoto6
and our7 groups have recently reported such an atom-
economic and operationally simple process in the enantio-
selective cyclization of ω-sulfonylamino allylic alcohols,
although it was limited to specific cases. In this commu-
nication, we report a synthetically even more flexible
method8 with high reactivity, selectivity, and generality,
which utilizes our previously described Cl-Naph-Py-
COOAll (1, All: allyl)/[CpRu(CH3CN)3]PF6 (2) com-
bined catalyst.9
N-Boc-protected (E)-6-aminohex-2-en-1-ol ((E)-3a) was
selected as a standard substrate because the previously
reported methods6,7 can be applied only to N-protected
aromatic amine nucleophiles or C(3)-aryl-substituted
allylic alcohols. Screening of the reaction conditions
was started from [3a] = 500 mM; [(R)-1] = [2] = 0.5 mM;
DMA; 100 °C; 3 h. The results are shown in Table 1.10
entry
P (substrate)
S/C time, h % convb S:Rc
1
t-C4H9OCO (3a)
t-C4H9OCO (3a)
t-C4H9OCO (3a)
t-C4H9OCO (3a)
C6H5CH2OCO (3b)
1000
1000
2000
100
3
3
6
>99 (94) 98:2
2d
3e
4f
5
>99 (ꢀ)
>99 (ꢀ)
2:98
98:2
98:2
<0.5 >99 (ꢀ)
1000
100
3
3
>99 (99) 98:2
6f,g,h CH3CO (3c)
>99i (90) (93:7)
7f
CF3CO (3d)
100
3
j
8f
C6H5CO (3e)
CH2dCHCO (3f)
100
3
>99 (95) (97:3)
>99 (98) 95:5
>99 (91) (93:7)
>99 (97) (96:4)
>99 (95) (97:3)
9f,g
100
24
24
24
3
10f,g,h (E)-CH3CHdCHCO (3g) 100
11f,g
12
HCO (3h)
100
4-CH3C6H4SO2 (3i)
1000
a Unless otherwise specified, all of reactions were carried out under
the following conditions: [3] = 500 mM; [(R)-1/2] = 0.5 mM; solvent,
DMA; bath temp, 100 °C. b 1H NMR analysis. The value in parentheses:
isolated yield of 4. c GC or HPLC analysis. Absolute configuration:
comparison of optical rotation with the reported values. Not determined
for the parenthesized data. d Catalyst: (S)-1/2. e [3a] = 1 M. f [3] = 100
mM, [(R)-1] = [2] = 1 mM. g 10:1 t-C4H9OHꢀDMA mixed solvent. h 70
°C. i 4c:5c = 95:5. Use of DMA as solvent quantitatively gave 5c. j Only
diene 6d (E/Z = 2:1) was obtained in either DMA or t-C4H9OH.
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The standard quantitatively afforded (S)-4a with an en-
antiomer ratio (er) of 98:2 (Table 1, entry 1), and the
enantiomeric product (R)-4a was obtained by using an
S-catalyst system (Table 1, entry 2). The substrate con-
centration could be increased to 1 M [substrate/catalyst
(S/C) = 2000 (0.05 mol %)] (Table 1, entry 3). Even with
S/C = 10000 (0.01mol %), the reactionproceededwithout
loss of er, although it was sluggish (25%, 24 h). In terms of
easy lab operation and quickness, S/C = 100 (1 mol %)
is recommended (Table 1, entry 4). DMA, THF, and
t-C4H9OH are the solvents of choice. The reaction was slower
in CH3OH (54% conv), C2H5OH (71%), i-C3H7OH (91%),
ether (90%), TBME (84%), dioxane (90%), and CH2Cl2
(89%), but an er of 96:4 to 97:3 was maintained, whereas
toluene deteriorated both the reactivity and selectivity (31%
conv, 84:16 er). No reaction occurred in CH3CN or acetone.
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