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A Convergent Method for the Synthesis of Highly Enantiomerically Enriched Cyclic Silanes with Silicon-Centered Chirality
Oestreich, Martin,Schmid, Ulrike K.,Auer, Gertrud,Keller, Manfred
, p. 2725 - 2739 (2007/10/03)
A preparatively straightforward methodology has been developed which allows the assembly of silicon-containing carbocycles as mixtures of diastereomers with silicon as the sole center of stereogenic information. One-step construction of the chiral cyclic silanes is realized by reaction of equimolar amounts of a dibromide and a chirally modified dichlorosilane under Barbier conditions giving access to several monofunctionalized 1-sila-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalenes and a corresponding phenanthrene derivative. Facile large scale syntheses of 3-(2-bromoaryl)propyl bromides as well as dichlorosilanes have been elaborated. This highly convergent methodology relies on the novel (-)-menthyloxy-substituted dichlorosilanes, which have the chiral auxiliary for the subsequent optical resolution installed. These enantiopure dichlorosilanes are useful building blocks for a general and modular one-step approach to silanes with silicon-centered chirality since this strategy avoids the linear sequences reported in literature. The optical resolution has been exemplarily optimized for the 1-phenyl-1-sila-1,2,3,4- tetrahydronaphthalene derivative and the absolute configuration has been established by X-ray crystallography. The chiral auxiliary is stereospecifically displaced by simple reduction providing the highly enantioenriched silane (er = 98:2) which is enantiospecifically chlorinated as verified by a Walden inversion at silicon.
Free-Radical Chemistry of Imines
Tomaszewski, Miroslaw J.,Warkentin, John,Werstiuk, Nick H.
, p. 291 - 322 (2007/10/02)
Aryl radicals bearing an aldimino functional group as part of an ortho substituent cyclized by addition to C and/or N of the imino group.When the choice was between 5-exo closure to C and 6-endo closure to N, the former predominated.However, 6-endo closure to C predominated over 5-exo cyclization to N in isomeric imines.Absolute values of cyclization rate constants were determined and an explanation for the unusual 6-endo preference is offered.Chiral induction in 6-endo cyclization to C of an aldimine from D-glyceraldehyde acetonide was observed, and its sense was determined.
