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Enantioselective Epoxidation of Electron-Deficient Alkenes Catalyzed by Manganese Complexes with Chiral N4 Ligands Derived from Rigid Chiral Diamines
Chen, Xiangning,Gao, Bao,Su, Yijin,Huang, Hanmin
, p. 2535 - 2541 (2017)
A series of tetradentate sp2N/sp3N hybrid chiral N4 ligands derived from rigid chiral diamines were synthesized, which enabled the first manganese-catalyzed enantioselective epoxidation of electron-deficient alkenes with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as an oxidant. The reaction furnishes enantiomerically pure epoxy amides, epoxy ketones as well as epoxy esters in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99.9% ee) with lower catalyst loading. Preliminary studies on structure–activity relationship demonstrated that maintaining comparatively lower electron-donating ability of the sp3N and relatively higher electron-donating ability of sp2N of the N4 ligands is beneficial to getting higher activity and selectivity, thus providing us a new view to understand epoxidation with H2O2. (Figure presented.).
