On the mechanism of catalytic, enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with chlorosilanes and chiral Lewis bases
On the mechanism of catalytic, enantioselective allylation of aldehydes with chlorosilanes and chiral Lewis bases
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DOI:
10.1021/ja002060a
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发表时间:
2000-12-06
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15
通讯作者:
Fu, JP
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作者:
Denmark, SE;Fu, JP
The enantioselective addition of allylmetal reagents to aldehydes is now well established as a powerful and general method for stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation. 1 One of the more useful variants to emerge in recent years is the Lewis-base promoted addition of allyl-and crotyltrihalosilanes. 2, 3 In 1994, the first example of enantioselective addition of allylic trichlorosilanes by the use of chiral phosphoramides was disclosed from these laboratories, Scheme 1. 4 Since then, a number of groups have reported enantioselective additions promoted by chiral phosphoramides, 5a, b formamides, 5c, d and N-oxides, 5e ureas, 5f and diamines. 5g Despite significant efforts at improving the enantioselectivity by empirical modification of the promoter structure, a clear mechanistic picture for the origin of rate acceleration and stereoselection is still lacking. Our ongoing investigations on the related reactions of trichlorosilyl enolates have revealed divergent pathways involving both first-and second-order dependence on catalyst and the intermediacy of cationic chlorosiliconate species. 6 We now provide kinetic, stereochemical, and structural evidence in support of a similar pathway operating in the allylation process.In our preliminary disclosure4 we noted that at reduced catalyst loadings the enantioselectivity eroded despite the lack of a competitive, uncatalyzed component under the reaction conditions. 7 This suggested the possibility that a the reaction could proceed by a pathway involving two phosphoramides bound to the chlorosilane along with a less selective pathway involving only one catalyst molecule. To gain support for this hypothesis, we made use of the powerful method, pioneered by Kagan, of asymmetric amplification by nonlinear effects. 8 The results of this study, graphically depicted in Figure 1, clearly demonstrate a modest (g) 0.46), but real, positive nonlinear effect. 9 The observed asymmetric amplification is interpreted as arising from the presence of two molecules of (R, R)-3 in the stereochemically determining transition structure. 10 To establish if the both phosphoramide molecules were also present in the rate-determining step, we determined the overall rate expression and order in each component. Toward that end the kinetic parameters of the allylation were determined by in situ monitoring of the consumption of benzaldehyde by the use of a ReactIR 1000 instrument. 11 Order in benzaldehyde was established by using a large excess of 1a (10 equiv) and 1 equiv of (R, R)-3. Plotting-ln [benzaldehyde] versus time gave a straight line (R2) 0.9984), thus establishing first-order dependence in aldehyde. 12a Order in 1a was established indirectly by determining the overall reaction order at equimolar concentration. For this experiment, a plot of [benzaldehyde]-1 versus time gave a straight line (R2) 0.9986), indicating that the reaction is overall second order12b and therefore first order in 1a. The reaction order in phosphoramide was established by determining the kinetic rate constants at various promoter concentrations (at-78 C). For these experiments equimolar amounts of 1a and benzaldehyde were used at catalyst loadings of 50-400 mol%. A ln/ln plot of the second-order rate constants (ln (kobs)) versus the catalyst concentration (ln [(R, R)-3]) gave a straight line (R2) 0.9987) with a slope of 1.77. 13 Clearly the reaction displays a higher-order dependence on catalyst. The reason that the order