title: Evaluation of chiral oxazolines for the highly enantioselective diethylzinc addition to N-(diphenylphosphinoyl) imines.
abstract: On the basis of the principle that the incorporation of the structurally rigid and conformationally restricted skeleton in beta-amino alcohols is beneficial to the enantioselective diethylzinc addition to imines, a series of chiral oxazolines, which had been designed and conveniently prepared from commercially available (1S,2S)-2-amino-1-phenylpropane-1,3-diol, were applied in the diethylzinc addition to diphenylphosphinoyl imines to give high yields of 68-84% and excellent ee values of 90-95%. The configuration of the product was controlled by the chirality of the carbon bonded to the hydroxyl group in the oxazoline. Oxazolines bearing a para- or meta-substituted phenyl group generally offered higher enantioselectivity than those containing an ortho-substituted phenyl. The X-ray structures of 4f and 4j, in combination with the proposed transition state, preliminarily explained why oxazolines with a para- or meta-substituent on the phenyl group gave higher enantioselectivities than those bearing an ortho-substituent. This successful example using chiral oxazolines to promote the titled reaction implies that a large family of chiral compounds containing an oxazoline ring moiety have the potential to be developed for promoting the highly enantioselective dialkylzinc addition to N-(diphenylphosphinoyl) imines.
authors.affiliation: Union Laboratory of Asymmetric Synthesis, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Mei
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hai-Le
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wen-Qing
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Liu-Zhu
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Ai-Qiao
authors.initials: AQ
authors.lastname: Mi
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Yao-Zhong
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Kai-Bei
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Yu