Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 756-760.doi: 10.1007/s40242-015-5142-y

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Synthesis of Novel Tartaric Acid-derived Chiral Phosphite Ligands and Their Application in the Cu-catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Diethylzinc to Cyclic Enones

PANG Zengbo1,2, XING Aiping1,2, WANG Lailai1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China
  • Received:2015-04-08 Revised:2015-05-08 Online:2015-10-01 Published:2015-06-29
  • Contact: WANG Lailai, E-mail: wll@licp.cas.cn E-mail:wll@licp.cas.cn
  • Supported by:

    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.20773147, 21073211, 21174155).

Abstract:

Five novel tropos (3R,4R)- and/or (3S,4S)-N-benzyltartarimide-derived biphenylphosphite ligands were synthesized and applied in the Cu-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of diethylzinc to cyclic enones with up to 75% e.e. Compared with the reported ligand 1-N-benzylpyrrolidine-3,4-bis[(R)-1,1'-binaphthyl-2,2'-diyl]phosphite-L-tartaric acid, the issue that L-(+)-tartaric acid backbone and (R)-binaphthyl showed strong matched/mismatched character was solved with these tropos ligands. It was found that the enantioselectivity was mainly controlled by the absolute configuration of N-benzyltartarimide backbone, and both enantiomers of the addition products can be obtained by simply changing the configuration of N-benzyltartarimide substituent.

Key words: L-(+)- and/or D-(?)-tartaric acid, Phosphite ligand, 1,4-Conjugate addition, Copper salt, Cyclic enone