Rigid P-Chiral Phosphine Ligands with tert-Butylmethylphosphino Groups for Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Functionalized Alkenes was written by Imamoto, Tsuneo;Tamura, Ken;Zhang, Zhenfeng;Horiuchi, Yumi;Sugiya, Masashi;Yoshida, Kazuhiro;Yanagisawa, Akira;Gridnev, Ilya D.. And the article was included in Journal of the American Chemical Society in 2012.Reference of 1355162-85-4 This article mentions the following:
Both enantiomers of 2,3-bis(tert-butylmethylphosphino)quinoxaline (QuinoxP*), 1,2-bis(tert-butylmethylphosphino)benzene (BenzP*), and 1,2-bis(tert-butylmethylphosphino)-4,5-(methylenedioxy)benzene (DioxyBenzP*) were prepared in short steps from enantiopure (S)- and (R)-tert-butylmethylphosphine-boranes as the key intermediates. All of these ligands were crystalline solids and were not readily oxidized on exposure to air. Their rhodium complexes exhibited excellent enantioselectivities and high catalytic activities in the asym. hydrogenation of functionalized alkenes, such as dehydroamino acid derivatives and enamides. The practical utility of these catalysts was demonstrated by the efficient preparation of several chiral pharmaceutical ingredients having an amino acid or a secondary amine component. A rhodium complex of the structurally simple ligand BenzP* was used for the mechanistic study of asym. hydrogenation. Low-temperature NMR studies together with DFT calculations using Me α-acetamidocinnamate as the standard model substrate revealed new aspects of the reaction pathways and the enantioselection mechanism. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, (S,S)-1,2-Bis(t-butylmethylphosphino)benzene (S,S)-BenzP (cas: 1355162-85-4Reference of 1355162-85-4).
(S,S)-1,2-Bis(t-butylmethylphosphino)benzene (S,S)-BenzP (cas: 1355162-85-4) belongs to chiral phosphine ligands. During the past two decades, tertiary phosphine catalysts have been applied extensively in a wide range of carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond-forming transformations. Most of these phosphines are acyclic, usually possess low nucleophilic activity, and generally display poor enantioselectivities for phosphine organocatalysis. Reference of 1355162-85-4
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Phosphine ligand,
Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis