Enantioselective Nickel-Catalyzed Si-C(sp2) Bond Activation and Migratory Insertion to Aldehydes: Reaction Scope and Mechanism was written by Wang, Qing;Zhong, Kang-Bao;Xu, Hao;Li, Shi-Nan;Zhu, Wei-Ke;Ye, Fei;Xu, Zheng;Lan, Yu;Xu, Li-Wen. And the article was included in ACS Catalysis in 2022.Electric Literature of C33H25OP This article mentions the following:
Transition-metal-catalyzed Si-C bond activation is one of the most important processes in both organosilicon chem. and homogeneous catalysis that is still rarely reported in the past decades, and the enantioselective versions based on transition-metal-catalyzed Si-C bond activation remain an ongoing challenge in asym. catalysis. Herein, the authors report a convenient and enantioselective Si-C bond cleavage-initiated [4 + 2] annulation of benzosilacyclobutenes with aldehydes, which provides an access to the direct synthesis of chiral six-membered oxasilacycles and their derivatives with high yields and enantioselectivities (up to 97% ee). The catalytic asym. reaction proceeds smoothly with the aid of a chiral TADDOL-derived phosphoramidite ligand and its chiral Ni complex with a suitable cavity. By switching the work-up of the reaction involved, the present strategy may be extended to subsequent downstream transformations of silyl ether-containing oxasilacycles to give chiral o-tolyl arylmethanols with high ees and quant. conversions. Exptl. results support that the strategy of Si-mediated organic synthesis controlled by Ni catalysis demonstrates a powerful potential for the facile synthesis of chiral alcs. and its drug-like derivatives Finally, mechanistic and computational studies of the Ni-catalyzed Si-C bond activation offer insights into the origin of the observed stereoselective outcome, and the d. functional theory calculation shows that the Ni-controlled Si-C(sp2) bond activation enables the controllable migratory insertion of benzaldehyde into the Ni-Si bond, which is recognized as the enantioselectivity-determining step. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, (S)-(2′-Methoxy-[1,1′-binaphthalen]-2-yl)diphenylphosphine (cas: 134484-36-9Electric Literature of C33H25OP).
(S)-(2′-Methoxy-[1,1′-binaphthalen]-2-yl)diphenylphosphine (cas: 134484-36-9) belongs to chiral phosphine ligands. Thousands of arylphosphines have been used as chiral ligands for metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions. Chiral ligands coordinate to metal centers to create an asymmetric environment around the reaction centers, which eventually affects enantioselectivity and reaction rate.Electric Literature of C33H25OP
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Phosphine ligand,
Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis