Highly enantioselective synthesis induced by chiral primary alcohols due to deuterium substitution
Highly enantioselective synthesis induced by chiral primary alcohols due to deuterium substitution
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DOI:
10.1021/ja002992e
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发表时间:
2000-11-29
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15
通讯作者:
Soai, K
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作者:
Sato, I;Omiya, D;Soai, K
Steric isotope effects have attracted considerable attention. 1 For example, a structural steric isotope effect in deuterated tetracyanoanthraquinodimethane, 2a conformational kinetic isotope effects in the racemization of a 9, 10-dihydrophenanthrene derivative2b and in the flipping of [2.2] metaparacyclophanes, 2c and a steric isotope effect in the reduction of a 4-piperidone derivative have been reported. 2dChiral compounds whose chirality is due to the replacement of hydrogen by deuterium are important from the standpoint of organic stereochemistry and biochemistry. 3 The chirality of these enantiomers is mainly due to the very small difference between the lengths of carbon-deuterium and carbon-hydrogen bonds; the time-averaged carbon-deuterium bond length (0.1099 nm) is shorter than the carbon-hydrogen bond by only 0.0004 nm. 4 Thus, unlike other usual enantiomers whose chirality is due to the difference in the number of protons in the atomic nucleus, these isotopic enantiomers are considered to show only very small differences in asymmetric reactions and recognition. In fact, isotopic enantiomers were only quite recently separated analytically using HPLC with a chiral stationary phase (csp). 5 On the other hand, despite the recent advances in asymmetric catalysis, 6 it is unclear whether any isotopic enantiomer can act as a chiral inducer in highly enantioselective synthesis. The enantioselectivities that have been reported so far in asymmetric synthesis7 and kinetic resolution8 induced by isotopic enantiomers have been extremely low. Enantioselective addition of MeOH to a ketene in the presence of a chiral deuterated quinuclidine derivative gave a product with an optical purity of only 0.13% based on the optical rotation, and only one enantiomer of the chiral inducer was investigated. 7 Kinetic resolution of racemic R-phenylbutyric anhydride with enantiomerically deuterated alcohols gives, after hydrolysis, R-phenylbutyric acid with an optical purity of only 0.1-0.6%. 8 Thus, highly enantioselective synthesis induced by isotopic enantiomers is a challenging problem. We report here an unprecedented highly enantioselective synthesis of a chiral compound induced by the isotopic enantiomer of primary alcohol-R-d.