N-sulfinylcarboximidates as a new class of chiral bidentate ligands: application to asymmetric coordination chemistry.
N-sulfinylcarboximidates as a new class of chiral bidentate ligands: application to asymmetric coordination chemistry.
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N-亚磺酰亚胺酯作为一类新型手性二齿配体:在不对称配位化学中的应用。
作者:
Zhijie Lin;M. A. Çeli̇k;Chen Fu;K. Harms;G. Frenking;E. Meggers
One hundred years after Alfred Werner s first experimental verification of metal-centered chirality in octahedral metal complexes, the asymmetric synthesis of octahedral coordination compounds still remains a formidable challenge. It is well established that chiral organic groups within carefully tailored coordinating ligands are capable of effectively controlling the absolute configuration of metal complexes during their formation, thereby transferring carbon-centered chirality to octahedral metal centers. However, having in mind an expansion of the scope of asymmetric coordination chemistry, one current challenge lies in the development of chiral ligands that can be synthesized economically, are at the same time capable of efficiently ruling the metal-centered configuration, and can be removed afterwards without compromising the induced metal-centered stereochemistry, thus serving as transient chiral auxiliaries. Here, we wish to introduce a new but surprisingly simple chiral bidentate ligand and report its application to the chiral-auxiliary-mediated asymmetric synthesis of octahedral ruthenium polypyridyl complexes. Our recent studies on the asymmetric synthesis of chiral ruthenium complexes made us appreciate the advantages of sulfoxide-containing chelate ligands because they possess a stereogenic center that can directly coordinate to the metal and thus permit an especially facile control of the metal-centered configuration (Scheme 1 a). However, the previously employed chiral 2-sulfinylphenols are cumbersome to synthesize in a highly enantiomerically pure fashion and thus of limited practical value. Seeking readily accessible, atomeconomical chiral sulfoxide auxiliaries, we envisioned that the N-acetylsulfinamide shown in Scheme 1 b might be an especially interesting candidate by coordinating reversibly as a bidentate ligand through its deprotonated N-sulfinylcarboximidate form. Conveniently, (R)-N-acetyl-tert-butanesulfinamide ((R)-ASA ; Scheme 1 b) can be synthesized in a single step by acetylation of commercially available enantiomerically pure tert-butanesulfinamide (Ellman s sulfinamide), a compound that is well established in organic synthesis as a chiral auxiliary for asymmetric transformations involving carbonyl groups. We tested asymmetric coordination chemistry with (R)ASA by reacting it with racemic cis-[Ru ACHTUNGTRENNUNG(bpy)2Cl2] in the presence of K2CO3 (0.5 equiv) in ethylene glycol at 170 8C for 90 seconds, which is analogous to a procedure developed recently for chiral sulfinylphenol auxiliaries, and to our delight we obtained L-(S)-1 as a single diastereomer in a yield of 77 % (Scheme 2). Apparently, since starting from a 50:50 mixture of Land D-configured cis-[Ru ACHTUNGTRENNUNG(bpy)2Cl2], a significant amount of the D-configured ruthenium starting material must have converted its metal-centered configuration
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作者:
Clayden, Jonathan;Fletcher, Stephen P.;Rowbottom, Stephen J. M.
通讯作者:
Rowbottom, Stephen J. M.