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New Class of Chiral Diphosphine Ligands for Highly Efficient Transition Metal-Catalyzed Stereoselective Reactions: The Bis(diphenylphosphino) Five-membered Biheteroaryls
Benincori, Tiziana,Brenna, Elisabetta,Sannicolo, Franco,Trimarco, Licia,Antognazza, Patrizia,et al.
, p. 6244 - 6251 (1996)
The synthesis and application of three examples of a new class of chiral (C2) atropisomeric diphosphines characterized by two interconnected five-membered heteroaromatic rings, with hindered rotation around the interanular bond, are described.Optically pure (+)- and (-)-2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-4,4',6,6'-tetramethyl-3,3'-bibenzothiophene (tetraMe-bitianp) (1a) and the parent unsubstituted system (+)- and (-)-bitianp (1b) were synthesized.They were found to be optically stable at 100 deg C and were successfully employed as ligands in the Ru(II)-catalyzed hydrogenation of α- and β-oxo esters to the corresponding α- and β-hydroxy esters and in the hydrogenation of olefinic substrates.The optical and chemical yields were comparable with those reported for the same Ru(II)-binap-catalyzed reactions carried out under the same experimental conditions.The 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-3,3'-bibenzofuran (1c), the oxygenated analogue of bitianp, was found to be configurationally unstable at room temperature.Complete structural X-ray elucidation of the Pd complexes of 1a-c is reported.The advantages of these biheteroaromatic ligands over the classical biaryl systems are discussed.
