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Easily accessible and highly tunable bisphosphine ligands for asymmetric hydroformylation of terminal and internal alkenes
Xu, Kun,Zheng, Xin,Wang, Zhiyong,Zhang, Xumu
, p. 4357 - 4362 (2014/05/06)
An efficient methodology for synthesizing a small library of easily tunable and sterically bulky ligands for asymmetric hydroformylation (AHF) has been reported. Five groups of alkene substrates have been tested with excellent conversions, moderate-to-excellent regio- and enantioselectivities. Among the best result of the reported literature, application of ligand 1 c in the highly selective AHF of the challenging substrate 2,5-dihydrofuran yielded almost one isomer in up to 99 % conversion along with enantiomeric excesses (ee) of up to 92 %. Highly enantioselective AHF of dihydropyrrole substrates is achieved using the same ligand, with up to 95 % ee and up to >1:50 β-isomer/α- isomer ratio. The simpler the better! An efficient method for the easy and tunable synthesis of a series of asymmetric hydroformylation (AHF) ligands from low-cost, commercially available starting materials has been reported. These ligands can give excellent conversions and moderate to excellent regio- and enantioselectivities for a broad range of mono- and disubstituted alkenes with a low catalyst loading (substrate-to-catalyst ratios (S/C) of 1000:1 to 3000:1).
