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whereas the latter is not; (2) water inhibits oxidation via
other non-enantioselective paths; or (3) water increases
the rate of oxidation of sulfide via the P helical isomer of
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dihydrobenzothiophene and for data on its oxidation.
Ti(DET)2CHP relative to that for the M helical isomer.14
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It is of some interest in connection with the
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directed by ligand 2 that the ligand-free oxidation of
methyl p-tolylsulfide with Ti(O-i-Pr)4 and CHP alone in
CH2Cl2 at –20 °C is much faster and leads rapidly to
approximately 2:1 mixtures of racemic sulfoxide and
sulfone.2 Thus, the ligands (R,R)-DET and 2 actually
decelerate the ligand-free, Ti(IV)-catalyzed process. It is
possible that the beneficial effect of water is due to
reduction of amounts of Ti(O-i-Pr)4 or species having just
one DET attached to titanium.
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(12) The energy of the P diastereomer was also found to be
lower than that of the M diastereomer using the M06-2X/6-
31G*//LANL2DZ procedure, the difference being somewhat
greater than the values reported above.
(13) The procedures used in our work for DFT satisfactorily
reproduced the bond lengths and angles of the titanium-
hydroperoxide complex described in the X-ray analysis of Boche
et al. (Ref. 8). Additionally, the extent to which the tertiary alkyl
group of the peroxide is out of plane is closely reproduced (see
the Supporting Information for details). This deviation from
planarity has a through space steric effect on the conformation of
In conclusion, the present work has resulted in the
development of a new and highly effective chiral ligand (2)
for the enantioselective, Ti(IV)-promoted oxidation of
sulfides to sulfoxides and also a logical pathway for the
process. In addition these studies, together with a careful
examination of the Kagan process, have clarified this
important, but long-mysterious area. Finally, our work has
revealed a striking similarity between the enantioselective
oxidations with 2 and DET as ligands for Ti as a
consequence of parallel mechanistic paths.
ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information. Optimized XYZ coordinates for the
P and M forms of Ti(DMT)(t-BuOOH), Ti(2)(t-BuOOH), XYZ
coordinates of other Ti complexes, full reference 11a, full
experimental details for oxidation reactions and the syntheses
of ligands 2 and 5, initial rates and reaction progress kinetic
data, nonlinear effects data. This material is available free of
the neighboring five-membered tartrate titanacycle.
This
secondary interaction helps to explain the increase in ee
associated with replacing the t-butyl hydroperoxide by cumene
hydroperoxide in the Kagan oxidation.
(14) A Swedish group9 has described evidence that H2O can
also favor the formation of monomeric Ti species from dimeric
oxygen-bridged structures.
(15) For related work on the pathway of the (Katsuki-
Sharpless) DET-Ti(O-i-Pr)4-ROOH-catalyzed epoxidation of allylic
alcohols, see: (a) Sharpless, K. B.; Woodward, S. S.; Finn, M. G. Pure
Appl. Chem. 1983, 55, 1823 – 1836. (b) Corey, E. J. J. Org. Chem.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors dedicate this paper to Prof. Henri B. Kagan for his
pioneering contributions to asymmetric synthesis. This work
was supported by Bristol Myers-Squibb for a Postdoctoral
Fellowship to TRN, Zhejiang University for a Cooperating
Research Fellowship to XL, by the Hertz Foundation for a
Graduate Fellowship to MMB, and by the Harvard
Undergraduate Research Program (CMCW). Dr. R.-J. Chien is
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