Conformationally flexible, chiral quaternary ammonium bromides for asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis
Conformationally flexible, chiral quaternary ammonium bromides for asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis
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DOI:
10.1002/1521-3773(20020503)41:9
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发表时间:
2002-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Maruoka, K
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作者:
Ooi, T;Uematsu, Y;Maruoka, K
4a at 08C for 36 h under an argon atmosphere resulted in formation of 3 (R CH2Ph) in 62% yield.[5] Fortunately, appreciable enantioselectivity (64% ee) was attained and the absolute configuration was assigned to be R as shown in Table 1 (entry 1). Based on this result, we next examined the catalyst 4b, which has a β-naphthyl group at the 3, 3'-position of the flexible biphenyl moiety, and found, as hoped, that both chemical yield and the enantioselectivity were improved to 85%, 87% ee (R)(Table 1, entry 2). The reaction was also smoothly catalyzed by the chiral ammonium bromide 5, which has β-naphthyl (β-Np) substituents on the chiral binaphthyl framework, giving 3 (R CH2Ph) in 87%, 83% ee with the same R configuration (Table 1, entry 3). Here, we assumed that the origin of the observed chiral efficiency could be ascribable to the considerable difference of catalytic activity between the rapidly equilibrated, diastereomeric homo-and heterochiral catalysts; namely, homochiral-4 or-5 is primarily responsible for the efficient asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis to produce 3 (R CH2Ph) with high enantiomeric excess, whereas heterochiral-4 or-5 displays low reactivity and stereoselectivity (Scheme 2).[6, 7] To gain supportive evidence of this, we prepared the heterochiral quaternary ammonium