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Caution in the Use of Nonlinear Effects as a Mechanistic Tool for Catalytic Enantioconvergent Reactions: Intrinsic Negative Nonlinear Effects in the Absence of Higher-Order Species
Kalek, Marcin,Fu, Gregory C.
, p. 4225 - 4229 (2017)
Investigation of the dependence of product enantiometric excess (ee) on catalyst ee is a widely used tool to probe the mechanism of an enantioselective reaction; in particular, the observation of a nonlinear relationship is usually interpreted as an indication of the presence of one or more species that contain at least two units of the chiral entity. In this report, we demonstrate that catalytic enantioconvergent reactions can display an intrinsic negative nonlinear effect that originates purely from the kinetic characteristics of certain enantioconvergent processes and is independent of possible aggregation of the chiral entity. Specifically, this intrinsic negative nonlinear effect can arise when there is a kinetic resolution of the racemic starting material, and its magnitude is correlated with the selectivity factor and the conversion; the dependence on conversion provides a ready means to distinguish it from a more conventional nonlinear effect. We support our analysis with experimental data for two distinct enantioconvergent processes, one catalyzed by a chiral phosphine and the other by a chiral Pd/phosphine complex.
Highly selective palladium catalyzed kinetic resolution and enantioselective substitution of racemic allylic carbonates with sulfur nucleophiles: Asymmetric synthesis of allylic sulfides, allylic sulfones, and allylic alcohols
Gais, Hans-Joachim,Jagusch, Thomas,Spalthoff, Nicole,Gerhards, Frank,Frank, Michael,Raabe, Gerhard
, p. 4202 - 4221 (2007/10/03)
We describe the highly selective palladium catalyzed kinetic resolutions of the racemic cyclic allylic carbonates rac-1a-c and racemic acyclic allylic carbonates rac-3aa and rac-3ba through reaction with tert-butylsulfinate, tolylsulfinate, phenylsulfinate anions and 2-pyrimidinethiol by using N,N′-(1R,2R)-1,2-cyclohexanediylbis[2-(di-phenylphosphino)-benzamide] (BPA) as ligand. Selectivities are expressed in yields and ee values of recovered substrate and product and in selectivity factors S. The reaction of the cyclohexenyl carbonate 1a (≥99% ee) with 2-pyrimidinethiol in the presence of BPA was shown to exhibit, under the conditions used, an overall pseudo-zero order kinetics in regard to the allylic substrate. Also described are the highly selective palladium catalyzed asymmetric syntheses of the cyclic and acyclic allylic tert-butylsulfones 2aa, 2b, 2c, 2d and 4 a - c, respectively, and of the cyclic and acyclic allylic 2-pyrimidyl-, 2-pyridyl-, and 4-chlorophenylsulfides 5aa, 5b, 5ab, 6aa - ac, 6ba and 6bb, respectively, from the corresponding racemic carbonates and sulfinate anions and thiols, respectively, in the presence of BPA. Synthesis of the E-configured allylic sulfides 6aa, 6ab, 6ac and 6bb was accompanied by the formation of minor amounts of the corresponding Z isomers. The analogous synthesis of allylic tert-butylsulfides from allylic carbonates and tert-butylthiol by using BPA could not be achieved. Reaction of the cyclopentenyl esters rac-1da and rac-1db with 2-pyrimidinethiol gave the allylic sulfide 5c having only a low ee value. Similar results were obtained in the case of the reaction of the cyclohexenyl carbonate rac-1a and of the acyclic carbonates rac-3aa and rac-3ba with 2-pyridinethiol and lead to the formation of the sulfides 5 ab, 6 ab, and 6 bb, respectively. The low ee values may be ascribed to the operating of a "memory effect", that is, both enantiomers of the substrate give the substitution product with different enantioselectivities. However, in the reaction of the racemic carbonate rac-1 a as well as of the highly enriched enantiomers la (≥99% ee) and ent-1a (≥99% ee) with 2-pyrimidinethiol the ee values of the substrates and the substitution product remained constant until complete conversion. Similar results were obtained in the reaction of the cyclic carbonates rac-1a, ent-1a (≥99% ee) and ent-1c (≥99% ee) with lithium tert-butylsulfinate. Thus, in the case of rac-1a and 2-pyrimidinthiol and tert-butylsulfinate anion as nucleophiles the enantioselectivity of the substitution step is, under the conditions used, independent of the chirality of the substrate; this shows that no "memory effect" is operating in this case. Hydrolysis of the carbonates ent-1a-c, ent-3aa and ent-3ba, which were obtained through kinetic resolution, afforded the enantiomerically highly enriched cyclic allylic alcohols 9a-c (≥99% ee) and acyclic allylic alcohols 10a (≥99% ee) and 10b (99% ee), respectively.
