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Can a Butadiene-Based Architecture Compete with its Biaryl Counterpart in Asymmetric Catalysis? Enantiopure Me-CATPHOS, a Remarkably Efficient Ligand for Asymmetric Hydrogenation

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Simon DohertyORCiD, Catherine Smyth, Emeritus Professor Anthony Harriman, Dr Ross Harrington, Professor William Clegg

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Abstract

The double Diels-Alder cycloaddition between 9-methylanthracene and 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphinoyl)buta-1,3-diyne affords the oxide of the atropos diphosphine, Me-CATPHOS, which has an unusual bicyclic buta-1,3-diene-based architecture. Quantum chemical methods using DTF reveal that the barrier to atropinterconversion in Me-CATPHOS is 130 kJ mol(-1), while the corresponding barrier for its unsubstituted counterpart is only 23 kJ mol-1, entirely consistent with the former being an atropos diphosphine while the latter belongs to the tropos class of ligand. rac-Me-CATPHOS can be resolved by fractional crystallization of the diasteresomeric complexes formed with (2R,3R)-(-)-2,3-O-dibenzoyltartaric acid and reduction of the resulting enantiopure oxide, accomplished by silane reduction in xylene at 130 degrees C, to afford an operationally straightforward, three-step synthesis of an entirely new class of atropos buta-1,3-diene-based diphosphine. Rhodium complexes of enantiopure Me-CATPHOS catalyze the asymmetric hydrogenation of a range of dehydroamino acid derivatives, in some cases giving ee's in excess of 99% and in all cases showing a significant enhancement compared with its BINAP counterpart. Gratifyingly, Rh/(S)-Me-CATPHOS outperforms all existing catalysts for the asymmetric hydrogenation of (E)-beta-dehydroamino phosphonates, many of which are based on markedly more expensive biaryl- and ferrocenyl-based diphosphines. Surprisingly, in the case of the dehydroamino acid substrates, (S)-Me-CATPHOS provides product of opposite absolute stereochemistry to that obtained with (S)-BINAP, despite both ligands having an S-ax configuration, whereas (S)-Me-CATPHOS exerts (S)-BINAP-like stereoinduction for the hydrogenation of beta-enamidophosphonates; both ligands afford product with the same absolute configuration.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Doherty S, Smyth CH, Harriman A, Harrington RW, Clegg W

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Organometallics

Year: 2009

Volume: 28

Issue: 3

Pages: 888-895

Date deposited: 07/06/2010

ISSN (print): 0276-7333

ISSN (electronic): 1520-6041

Publisher: American Chemical Society

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om801145v

DOI: 10.1021/om801145v


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