Synthesis of New Chiral 2,2′-Bipyridyl-Type Ligands, Their
Organometallics 2001, 20, 673-690 673 Synthesis of New Chiral 2,2′-Bipyridyl-Type Ligands, Their Coordination to Molybdenum(0), Copper(II), and Palladium(II), and Application in Asymmetric Allylic Substitution, Allylic Oxidation, and Cyclopropanation Andrei V. Malkov,†,‡,§ Ian R. Baxendale,‡,¶ Marco Bella,†,⊥ Vratislav Langer,# John Fawcett,‡ David R. Russell,‡ Darren J. Mansfield,∇ Marian Valko,4 and Pavel Kocˇovsky´*,†,‡,§ Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K., Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K., Department of Inorganic Environmental Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Go¨teborg, Sweden, Aventis CropScience UK Ltd, Chesterford Park, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1XL, U.K., and Department of Physical Chemistry, Slovak Technical University, SK-812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia Received October 3, 2000 A series of chiral bipyridine-type ligands 5-12 has been synthesized via a de novo construction of the pyridine nucleus. The chiral moieties of the ligands originate from the monoterpene realm, namely, pinocarvone (13 f 6, 7, and 9), myrtenal (18 f 5), nopinone (21 f 8 and 10), and menthone (28 f 11 and 12); the first three precursors can be obtained in one step from â- and R-pinene, respectively. Complexes of these ligands with molybdenum(0) (38-40) and copper(II) (41) have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography. While complex 38 exhibits polymorphism (monoclinic and tetragonal forms crystallize from the same batch), 41 is characterized by a tetrahedrally distorted geometry of the metal coordination. The Mo and Pd complexes exhibit modest asymmetric induction in allylic substitution (43 f 44), and the Cu(I) counterpart of 41, derived from 10 (PINDY) and Cu(OTf)2, shows promising enantioselectivity (49-75% ee) and reaction rate (g30 min at room temperature) in allylic oxidation of cyclic olefins (47 f 48).
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