GSK Classes 10-12
GSK Classes 10-12
• In 1973, Trost and Fullerton reported a new palladium-mediated synthetic reaction termed
allylic alkylation (Trost, B. M.; Fullerton, T. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1973, 95, 292)
• Within a few months, this group reported a stoichiometric asymmetric variant employing
chelating chiral bisphosphine ligands (Trost, B. M.; Dietsche, T. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1973, 95,
8200)
• Four years later, their catalytic version of this reaction set off a storm of work that continues
to this day (Trost, B. M.; Strege, P. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1977, 99, 1649)
Review: Trost, B. M.; VanVranken D. L., Chem. Rev. 1996, 96, 395
Book: Trost, B. M.; Lee, C. In Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis; Oijima, I., Ed.; Wiley-VCH:
Weinheim, Germany, 2000; Chapter 8E.
1962: Smidt’s palladium-catalysed oxidation of alkenes to carbonyl groups
Angewandte Chemie, 1962,74, 93
Asymmetric Allylic Substitution
η2 π-allyl-Pd(0) Π complex
η3 π-allyl-Pd(II) complex
Trost, B. M.; Lee, C. In Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis; Oijima, I., Ed.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim,
Germany, 2000; Chapter 8E.
Asymmetric Allylic Substitution
inversion inversion
retension
Soft nucleophiles invert the stereochemistry of the π-allyl complex (a net retention of stereochemistry)
Hard nucleophiles retain the stereochemistry of the π-allyl complex (a net inversion of stereochemistry)
Trost, B. M.; Lee, C. In Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis; Oijima, I., Ed.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim,
Germany, 2000; Chapter 8E.
Asymmetric Allylic Substitution
Application
Trost, B. M.; Lee, C. In Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis; Oijima, I., Ed.; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim,
Germany, 2000; Chapter 8E.
Catalytic Asymmetric C-C bond formation
Asymmetric Cycloaddition Reactions
(Diels-Alder Reaction)
Acyloxyborane
from sulfonamide
CH2Cl2
Brønsted acid-assisted
chiral Lewis acid (BLA)
(R)-N,N-Dimethyl-1-[(S)-2-
(diphenylphosphino)ferrocenyl]ethylamine
Up to 88% ee