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Oxidation Under Reductive Conditions: From Benzylic Ethers to Acetals with Perfect Atom-Economy by Titanocene(III) Catalysis
Funk, Pierre,Richrath, Ruben B.,Bohle, Fabian,Grimme, Stefan,Gans?uer, Andreas
, p. 5482 - 5488 (2021/02/03)
Described here is a titanocene-catalyzed reaction for the synthesis of acetals and hemiaminals from benzylic ethers and benzylic amines, respectively, with pendant epoxides. The reaction proceeds by catalysis in single-electron steps. The oxidative addition comprises an epoxide opening. An H-atom transfer, to generate a benzylic radical, serves as a radical translocation step, and an organometallic oxygen rebound as a reductive elimination. The reaction mechanism was studied by high-level dispersion corrected hybrid functional DFT with implicit solvation. The low-energy conformational space was searched by the efficient CREST program. The stereoselectivity was deduced from the lowest lying benzylic radical structures and their conformations are controlled by hyperconjugative interactions and steric interactions between the titanocene catalyst and the aryl groups of the substrate. An interesting mechanistic aspect is that the oxidation of the benzylic center occurs under reducing conditions.
ASYMMETRIC REACTIONS BASED ON 1,3-OXATHIANES-3. SECONDARY α-HYDROXYACIDS, RCHOHCO2H AND GLYCOLS RCHOHCH2OH
Ko, Kwang-Youn,Frazee, William J.,Eliel, Ernest L.
, p. 1333 - 1344 (2007/10/02)
Reduction of the previously prepared chiral 2-acyl-1,3-oxathianes derived from (+)-pulegone with various metal hydride combinations proceeds stereoselectively, with diastereomer excess (d.e.) of as much as 97percent in the case of reduction of phenyl ketons with lithium tri-sec. butylborohydride.Lesser selectivity (maximum 82percent d.e.) is achived with primary or tertiary alkyl ketones: the predominant diastereomer is readily purified by chromatography.The major product in these cases is that predicted by Cram's chelate rule.The product ratio is reversed with diisobutylaluminium hydride and also in the reduction of secondary alkyl ketones with lithium sec. butylborohydride, where stereoselectivity is low.The 2-hydroxyalkyl-1,3-oxathines are cleaved to α-hydroxyaldehydes with N-chlorosuccinimide-silver nitrate and the aldehydes reduced to glycols, RCHOHCH2OH with sodium borohydride with little or no racemization.Esters, RCHOHCO2CH3, are obtained in high enantiomeric purity by O-benzylating the 2-hydroxyalkyl-1,3-oxathianes prior to cleavage, oxidizing with sodium chlorite following cleavage, esterifying and debenzylating.A method for measuring the enantiomeric purity of glycols RCHOHCH2OH by conversion to 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolanes with benzaldehyde, followed by proton NMR analysis of the resulting 2-phenyl-4-alkyl-1,3-dioxolane diastereomer pair in the presence of a chiral europium shift reagent is described.
DETERMINATION OF ENANTIOMERIC PURITY OF GLYCOLS RCHOHCH2OH
Eliel, Ernest L,Ko, Kwang-Youn
, p. 3547 - 3550 (2007/10/02)
The enantiomeric purity of primary-secondary glycols, RCHOHCH2OH, is conveniently determined by conversion to a pair of epimeric 1,3-dioxolanes through condensation with benzaldehyde, followed by nmr spectroscopy in presence of a chiral shift reagent with observation of the benzylic protons.
