title: Camphor-Derived, Chelating Auxiliaries for the Highly Diastereoselective Intermolecular Pauson-Khand Reaction: Experimental and Computational Studies.
abstract: A family of enantiomerically pure (2R)-10-(alkylthio)isoborneols [methylthio (1), neopentylthio (2), phenylthio (3)], specifically designed as chiral auxiliaries suitable for chirality transfer to cobalt in Pauson-Khand reactions, has been synthesized. The dicobalt hexacarbonyl complexes of the alkoxyacetylenes derived from these alcohols (10a-12a) can be converted to the rather stable, internally chelated, pentacarbonyl complexes 10b-12b by treatment with NMO. The intermolecular Pauson-Khand reactions of 10b-12b with strained olefins take place with synthetically useful rates at low temperatures (down to -20 degrees C), with high yields and diastereoselectivities: norbornene (77%; 92:8), norbornadiene (82%; 96:4), bicyclo[3.2.0]hept-6-ene (91%; 93:7). The major diastereomer of the adduct of 10b with norbornadiene, 14, has been used as the starting point for a synthesis of (S)-(-)-4-alkyl-2-cyclopentenones through a sequence consisting of completely diastereoselective conjugate addition, reductive cleavage with recovery (>95%) of the chiral auxiliary, and retro Diels-Alder reaction. The stereochemical course of the reaction of 10b with norbornadiene has been analyzed and rationalized by theoretical means by using a combined semiempirical [PM3(tm)]/density functional theory [VWN-Perdew-Wang 91] approach.
authors.affiliation: Unitat de Recerca en Síntesi Asimètrica, Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franqués 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain, and LEDSS, Chimie Recherche, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53X, 38041 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Verdaguer
authors.forename: Jordi
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authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Gerard
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authors.lastname: Fuster
authors.forename: Vania
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authors.lastname: Bernardes-Génisson
authors.forename: Andrew E.
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authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Albert
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authors.lastname: Moyano
authors.forename: Miquel A.
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authors.lastname: Pericàs
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authors.lastname: Riera