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Catalytic Enantioselective Allyl- And Crotylboration of Aldehydes Using Chiral Diol X SnCl4 Complexes. Optimization, Substrate Scope and Mechanistic Investigations

Catalytic Enantioselective Allyl- And Crotylboration of Aldehydes Using Chiral Diol X SnCl4 Complexes. Optimization, Substrate Scope and Mechanistic Investigations

Vivek Rauniyar, Huimin Zhai, Dennis G Hall

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Jul 2;130(26):8481-90.

PMID: 18540580

Abstract:

We report a novel class of C2-symmetric chiral diols derived from the hydrobenzoin skeleton. The combination of these diols with SnCl4 under Yamamoto's concept of Lewis acid assisted Brønsted acidity (LBA catalysis) leads to high levels of asymmetric induction in the allylboration of aldehydes by commercially available allylboronic acid pinacol ester 1a. The corresponding homoallylic alcohol products of synthetically useful aliphatic aldehydes are obtained in excellent yields with up to 98:2 er. This combined acid manifold is also efficient in catalyzing the diastereo- and enantioselective crotylboration of aldehydes, thus providing the propionate units in >95:5 dr and up to 98:2 er. The X-ray crystal structure of the optimal diol x SnCl4 complex, Vivol (4m) x SnCl4, unambiguously shows the Brønsted acidic character of this LBA catalyst and its highly dissymmetrical environment. Further controls have ruled out a possible boron trans-esterification mechanism with the chiral diol and point to LBA catalyst-derived activation of the pinacol allylic boronates 1. Due to slow dissociation of the diol x SnCl4 complex, a small excess of diol is required in order to suppress a competing racemic cycle catalyzed by free SnCl4.

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