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Effectiveness and Mechanism of the Ene(amido) Group in Activating Iron for the Catalytic Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

I-interacting ligands of the diphosphino amido-ene(amido) type are effective in activating iron to resemble the properties of precious metals in the catalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones. To further verify the effectiveness of the ene(amido) group, we synthesized four amine(imine) diphosphine iron precatalyst complexes with substituents at α and β positions relative to imino groups (1-3) or with enlarged chelate ring sizes (5,5,6-membered rings) (4). In comparison with the parent trans-(R,R)-[Fe(CO)(Cl)(PPh2CH2CHaNCHPhCHPhNHCH2CH2PPh2)]BF4 (I), the introduction of a methyl group in 1 and 2 reduced the catalytic activity but led to undiminished enantioselectivity as reaction proceeded. In comparison to the iron complexes 1-3 with a 5,5,5-coordination geometry, the complex 4 derived from the new (R,R)-P-NH-NH2 tridentate ligand showed high reactivity comparable to that of I but was unfortunately not enantioselective. The catalytic reactivity of 1, 2, and 4 illustrates the effectiveness of the ene(amido) group. An electronic structure study on the important catalytic intermediate amido-ene(amido) complex 1b proved that iron was activated by an additional I-back-donation-interaction ligand to participate in the traditional metal-ligand bifunctional pathway in the asymmetric transfer hydrogenation reactions.

Synthesis and reactions of phosphine-boranes. Synthesis of new bidentate ligands with homochiral phosphine centers via optically pure phosphine-boranes

Secondary and tertiary phosphine-boranes were synthesized in one-pot from phosphine oxides or substituted chlorophosphines without isolation of the intermediate phosphines. Phosphine-boranes having a methyl group were metalated with sec-butyllithium. The generated carbanions reacted with alkyl halides or carbonyl compounds to yield various phosphine-borane derivatives. The carbanions underwent copper(II)-promoted oxidative coupling without impairment of the borane functionality. Secondary phosphine-boranes reacted with alkyl halides, aldehydes, or α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to give phosphine-borane derivatives having a functional group. The boranato group of phosphine-boranes was removed in a stereospecific manner with retention of configuration by treatment with a large excess of amine such as morpholine. A new route to bidentate ligands with homochiral phosphine centers has been explored by utilizing these characteristic reactivities of phosphine-boranes. Thus, optically pure (S,S)-1,2-bis(o-anisylphenylphosphino)ethane, (R,R)-1,2-bis(tert-butylphenyl-phosphino)ethane, and (S,S)-1,4-bis(o-anisylphenylphosphino)butane have been synthesized via phosphine-boranes.