Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:858

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX858

Authors:
Guimet Vila, Eugeni

Abstract:
In the last years, the growing demand of enantiomerically pure compounds (pharmacs, agrochemicals, additives...) has captured the interest of asymmetric catalysis. Asymmetric processes catalyzed by chiral transition-metal complexes have found many applications in this field. In this context, the synthesis of new chiral ligands is important to develop good catalytic systems in asymmetric catalysis. Carbohydrates have many advantages: they are readily available, are highly functionalized and have several stereogenic centers. This enables series of chiral ligands to be synthesized in the search for high activities and selectivities for each particular reaction.This thesis has focused on the synthesis of compounds derived from D-(+)-xylose and their application as ligands of chiral homogeneous catalyst in four asymmetric industrial processes: hydrogenation, allylic substitution, 1,4-addition and hydroformylation. Thus, new diphosphinite and thioeter-phosphinite compounds have developed (figure 1). Diphosphinites have the opposite configuration at C-3 (two backbones are xylofuranoside and ribofuranoside). Thioether-phosphinites have a thiother moiety at C-5 bearing substituents with different steric and electronic properties. Figura 1. Compounds synthetized from D-(+)-xylose.After the introduction (chapter 1) and the objectives (chapter 2), chapter 3 contains the synthesis and characterization of the two families of compounds. This chapter also discusses the characterization of their Rh(I) and Ir(I) catalytic precursors and their application in the asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral olefins.Diphosphinite and thioether-phosphinite compounds have been synthesized from the corresponding alcohols. The reaction of diols with chlorodiphenylphosphine in the presence of pyridine