title: Influence of steric symmetry and electronic dissymmetry on the enantioselectivity in palladium-catalyzed allylic substitutions.
abstract: Chiral P,N-ligands with pseudo-C2 and pseudo-Cs symmetry based on chiral pyrrolidine and phospholane rings or on dinaphthatodihydroazepino and dinaphthatodihydrophosphepino moieties were prepared and assessed in the palladium-catalyzed allylic substitutions of allylic acetates. Higher selectivity was achieved with pseudo-C2-symmetric ligands based on the binaphthyl skeleton than with the analogous C2-symmetric P,P- and N,N-analogues. Pseudo-C2-type ligands had properties superior to those of pseudo-meso-type ligands when 1,3-diphenyl-2-propenyl acetate was used as a substrate, whereas the reverse situation was found for 3-cyclohexenyl acetate. Chirally flexible ligands, prepared by substitution of one of the rigid binaphthyl skeletons for a flexible biphenyl system, were found to induce chirality to the same extent as a 1:1 mixture of the rigid ligands.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vasse
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stranne
authors.forename: Raivis
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zalubovskis
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gayet
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moberg