Identifier: TDX:868
Authors: Mata Campaña, Yvette Angela
Abstract:
The growing demand for enantiomerically pure compounds for the development of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and flavors has captured the interest of the chemist in the last few decades. Of the various methods for producing enantiopure compounds, enantioselective homogeneous metal catalysis is an attractive one. In this context, 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 and screened in the search for high activities and selectivities for each particular reaction. In this context, this thesis focuses on the development of new chiral ligand libraries derived from carbohydrates, the synthesis of new catalyst precursors and their application in the Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution, Pd-catalyzed asymmetric Heck reactions, Ni-catalyzed asymmetric addition of trialkylaluminium to aldehydes, and Cu-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-conjugated addition of trialkylaluminium reagents to enones. For this porpose, we have designed and syntezied 3 new sugar based ligand libraries: phosphite-oxazoline (L1-L5), phosphite-phosphoroamidite (L6) i monophosphite (L7-L11) (Figure 1). After introduction (Chapter 1) and objectives (Chapter 2), in chapter 3 is discussed the synthesis and characterization of the ligand libraries (L1-L11) and and their application in the asymetric Pd-catalyzed allylic substituion reactions. Using phosphite-oxazoline ligands (L1-L5) we observed important effects of the oxazoline substituents and the axial chirality and the substituents of the biaryl moieties. However, the effects of these parameters depended on each substrate. High enantioselectivities (up to 99%) and good activities have been achieved in a wide range of substrates with different steric and electronic properties. The study of the Pd-1,3-diphenyl, 1,3-dimethyl and 1,3-cyclohexenyl allyl intermediates by NMR spectroscopy made it possible to understand the catalytic behaviour observed. This study also indicated that the nucleophilic attack takes place predominantly at the allylic terminal carbon atom located trans to the phosphite moiety. Figura 1. Fosfit-oxazolina (L1-L5), fosfit-fosforamidit (L6) i monofosfit (L7-L11). Asymmetric substitution reactions with catalyst precursors containing the phosphite-phosphoroamidite ligands showed that enantiomeric excesses depend strongly on the substituents at the para positions of the biphenyl moieties. However, these effects were different depending on the substrate in study. Enantiomeric excesses of up to 89% with high activities were obtained for rac-1,3-diphenyl-3-acetoxyprop-1-ene, rac-(E)-ethyl-2,5-dimethyl-3-hex-4-enylcarbonate and rac-3-acetoxycycloheptene. For the monosubstituted linear substrate 1-(1-naphthyl)allyl acetate, these ligands proved to be inadequate in terms of regioselectivities. However, we obtained good enantioselectivity by carefully selecting the substituents on the para position of the biphenyl moieties (ee's up to 72%). If we compare these results with those from the catalyst precursors containing the previous phosphite-oxazoline ligands (L1-L5), we found that the replacement of the oxazoline moiety by a phosphoroamidite group decreased enantioselectivities and versatibility. Asymmetric allylic alkylation with catalyst precursors containing the sugar-based monophosphite ligand library showed that the catalytic performance is highly affected by the size of the sugar backbone, the configurations at C-3 and C-4 of the ligand backbone and the type of substituents/configurations in the biaryl phosphite moiety. Low-to-moderate enantioselectivities (up to 46%) were obtained. In the asymmetric Pd-catalyzed Heck reactions (Chapter 4) with catalysts precursors based on phosphite-oxazoline ligands, we obtained excellent activities (up to 100% conversion in 10 minutes), regio- (up to >99%) and enantioselectivities (up to 99%) were obtained in a wide range of substrates and triflate sources. In the asymmetric Ni-catalyzed 1,2-addition of trialkylaluminium to aldehydes (Chpater 5) with catalysts precursors based on phosphite-oxazoline and phosphite-phosphoroamidite ligands, we found that the selectivity depends strongly on the type of functional group attached to the carbohydrate backbone, on the steric properties of the oxazoline substituents and on the substrate structure. Enantioselectivities up to 59% were obtained using the catalyst precursor containing the phosphite-oxazoline ligand L3a. In contrast to what we observed with the previous two ligand libraries, using sugar-based monophosphite ligands (L7-L11) provides high enantioselectivities (up to 94% ee) and activities in different substrate types, with low catalysts loadings and without excess of ligand. In Chapter 6, we described the phosphite-oxazoline and phosphite-phosphoroamidite ligands as chiral auxiliaries in the asymmetric Cu-catalyzed 1,4-conjugated addition of trialkylaluminium reagents to several enones provides good enantioselectivities (up to 80% ee). In the asymmetric Cu-catalyzed asymmetric 1,4-conjugated addition of trialkylaluminium reagents to several enones with catalysts precursors based on sugar monophosphite ligands, we found good activites and enantioselectivities up to 57% ee.
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