Visible-Light-Promoted Stereoselective Alkylation by Combining Heterogeneous Photocatalysis with Organocatalysis
Visible-Light-Promoted Stereoselective Alkylation by Combining Heterogeneous Photocatalysis with Organocatalysis
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201108721
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发表时间:
2012-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Koenig, Burkhard
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作者:
Cherevatskaya, Maria;Neumann, Matthias;Koenig, Burkhard
The application of sensitizers to utilize visible light for chemical reactions is an established method.[1] Several recent publications [2] have impressively demonstrated the versatile use of visible light for various transformations, such as the conversion of alcohols to alkyl halides,[3] and [2+ 2],[4][3+ 2],[5] and [4+ 2][6] cycloadditions as well as carbon–carbon [7] and carbon–heteroatom bond formations.[8] The combination of organocatalysis with visible-light photoredox catalysis using ruthenium or iridium complexes [9] or organic dyes [9d] as photocatalysts allows for an expansion to enantioselective reactions.[10] Although inorganic semiconductors, such as titanium dioxide, have been widely used for the photocatalytic degradation of organic waste,[11] the number of examples in which they photocatalyze bond formation in organic synthesis is still limited.[12] Kisch and co-workers [13] explored CdS-mediated bond formations, and oxidative CÀC coupling reactions with titanium dioxide [14] are known. However, bond formations on heterogeneous photocatalysts typically proceed without control of the stereochemistry and mixtures of isomers are obtained.[15, 16] We demonstrate herein that the combination of stereoselective organocatalysis with visible-light heterogeneous photoredox catalysis promotes the stereoselective formation of carbon–carbon bonds in good selectivity and yield. The approach combines the advantages of heterogeneous catalysis (robust, simple, and easy-toseparate catalyst material) with the stereoselectivity achieved in homogeneous organocatalysis.[17, 18] The enantioselective a-alkylation of aldehydes developed by MacMillan et al.[9a] was selected as a test reaction to apply inorganic heterogeneous photocatalysts (Table 1). Five semiconductors were used: commercially available white TiO2 (1),[19] the same material surface-modified covalently with a Phos-Texas Red dye increasing the absorption of visible light (Phos-Texas-Red-TiO2, 2), yellow PbBiO2Br, which absorbs blue light, and PbBiO2Br as bulk material (3) and in nanocrystalline form (4). TiO2 (1) with an average particle size of 21 nm is a stable and inexpensive semiconductor with a band gap of 3.2 eV, but the unmodified powder absorbs only weakly up to 405 nm as a result of to defects and surface deposits.[20] Its absorption range can be extended into the visible range by structure modification [21] or surface modification with dyes.[22, 23] The Texas Red derived dye 10 [24](Scheme1) was covalently anchored on TiO2 yielding 2, which absorbs at 560 nm (see the Supporting Information for the synthesis of 10 and the characterization of 2). PbBiO2Br 3 and 4 were prepared by different synthetic routes leading to different particle sizes of the semiconductors: PbBiO2Br bulk material 3 with a band gap of 2.47 eV was prepared by hightemperature solid-phase synthesis,[25] while the nanocrystalline material 4 was obtained from synthesis in aqueous solution leading to an average calculated particle size of (28 Æ 6) nm and an optical band gap of 2.56 eV. Yellow CdS (5) has a band gap of 2.4 eV and was prepared as previously reported.[26]