697288-77-0Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Effect of chelating vs. bridging coordination of chiral short-bite P-X-P (X = C, N, O) ligands in enantioselective palladium-catalysed allylic substitution reactions
Calabro, GianPiero,Drommi, Dario,Bruno, Giuseppe,Faraone, Felice
, p. 81 - 89 (2004)
The chiral short-bite ligands (Ra,Ra)-bis (dinaphthylphosphonito)methane, (Ra,Ra)-1, (Ra,Ra)-bis-dinaphthylpyrophosphite, (Ra,Ra)-2, (Sc)-bis(diphenylphosphino) -sec-butylamine, (Sc)-3, (Ra,Ra)- bis(dinaphthylphosphonito)-phenylamine, (Ra,Ra)-4a, (Ra,Ra, Sc)-bis(dinaphthylphosphonito)-sec-butylamine, (Ra,Ra,Sc)-4b, and (Ra, Sc)-(dinaphthylphosphonito) (diphenylphosphino)-sec-butylamine, (Ra,Sc)-5, have been synthesised. The cationic palladium-allyl mononuclear chelate, [Pd(η3-PhCHCHCHPh) (μ-L-Lshort-bite)]PF6 [L-Lshort-bite = (Sc)-3, (Ra,Ra)-4a, (Ra,Ra,Sc)-4b and (Ra, Sc)-5 for complexes 8, 9, 10 and 11, respectively] and binuclear bridged [Pd(η3-PhCHCHCHPh)-(μ-Ra,Ra, Ra-2)]2(PF6)2, 12, have been isolated. The short-bite chiral ligands synthesised have been tested in the palladium-allyl catalysed substitution reaction of 1,3-diphenylallyl acetate with dimethyl malonate. The catalytic system was studied, in solution, by a multinuclear NMR technique. In the catalytically active species formed with (Ra,Ra)-2 ligand, [Pd(η3- PhCHCHCHPh)(Ra,Ra-2)]2 (PF6)2, 12, the palladium(II) centres are bridged by two ligands which are forced to adopt a nearly cis-coordination to allow coordination of the allyl-moiety. Semiempirical calculations on a biphenyl-model molecule, similar to the species 12, indicate that this situation induces a strain and rigid conformation in the chiral ligands, which produce differences in the terminal allyl carbon atoms. As consequence, the catalytic product was obtained with an enantiomeric excess of 57.1% in the S form. A low e.e. value was obtained when the (Ra,Ra)-1, (Sc)-3, (Ra,Ra)-4a, (Ra,Ra,Sc)-4b and (Ra, Sc)-5 ligands have been tested in the same palladium-catalysed reaction.
