title: Chiral zirconium catalysts using multidentate BINOL derivatives for catalytic enantioselective Mannich-type reactions; ligand optimization and approaches to elucidation of the catalyst structure.
abstract: Catalytic enantioselective Mannich-type reactions of silicon enolates with aldimines were investigated using chiral zirconium catalysts prepared from Zr(O(t)Bu)(4), N-methylimidazole, and newly designed multidentate BINOL derivatives. These new multidentate BINOL ligands were designed on the basis of an assumed transition state structure of a chiral zirconium catalyst derived from two molecules of (R)-6,6'-Br(2)-BINOL. Not only tetradentate BINOL 4 but also tridentate BINOL derivatives were found to be effective, and high enantioselectivities were attained. In a structural study of the most effective zirconium complex prepared from tridentate ligand 6e, several NMR experiments and DFT calculations were carried out. Consequently, the structure of an active catalyst and plausible mechanism of asymmetric induction were elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ihori
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Haruro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishitani
authors.forename: Shū
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D007097:Imines / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009284:Naphthols / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D015040:Zirconium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: C406944:BINOL, naphthol; D007097:Imines; D008024:Ligands; D009284:Naphthols; D015040:Zirconium