Shen, Zengming; Dornan, Peter K.; Khan, Hasan A.; Woo, Tom K.; Dong, Vy M. published an article on January 28 ,2009. The article was titled 《Mechanistic insights into the rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular ketone hydroacylation》, and you may find the article in Journal of the American Chemical Society.SDS of cas: 256390-47-3 The information in the text is summarized as follows:
Rhodium diphosphine catalysts, [Rh(dppp)2]BF4 and [Rh((R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS)]BF4 [dppp = 1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane, DTBM-SEGPHOS = (4R)-[4,4′-bi-1,3-benzodioxole]-5,5′-bis(diarylphosphine), aryl = 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-methoxyphenyl] exhibit high catalytic activity, chemo- and enantioselectivity in intramol. ketone group hydroacylation of oxo-substituted salicylaldehyde ethers, 2-RCOCHR1OC6H4CHO (1a-o), yielding 3-R-2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodioxepin-5-ones I (2a-o; R1 = H, R = Ph, 4-CF3C6H4, 4-MeO2CC6H4, 4-ClC6H4, 4-FC6H4, 4-MeC6H4, 4-MeOC6H4, 2-naphthyl, Bu, iPr, tBu, PhCH2, Me, 2-furyl, 2-thienyl; rac-2p, R1 = R = Me; rac-2q, R1 = R = Ph). The reaction catalyzed by [Rh((R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS)]BF4 afforded seven-membered lactones 2a-o in large enantiomeric excess. A combined exptl. and theor. study aimed to elucidate the mechanism and origin of selectivity in this C-H bond activation process, is presented. Evidence is presented for a mechanistic pathway involving three key steps: (1) rhodium(I) oxidative addition into the aldehyde C-H bond, (2) insertion of the ketone C:O double bond into the rhodium hydride, and (3) C-O bond-forming reductive elimination. Kinetic isotope effects and Hammett plots support that ketone insertion is the turnover-limiting step. Detailed kinetic experiments were performed using both dppp and (R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS as ligands. With dppp, the keto-aldehyde substrate assists in dissociating a dimeric precatalyst [Rh2(μ-η6:κP,κP’-dppp)2][BF4]2 (8) and binds an active monomeric form of the catalyst. With [Rh((R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS)]BF4, there is no induction period and both substrate and product inhibition are observed In addition, competitive decarbonylation produces a catalytically inactive rhodium carbonyl species that accumulates over the course of the reaction. Both mechanisms were modeled with a kinetics simulation program, and the models were consistent with the exptl. data. D. functional theory calculations were performed to understand more elusive details of this transformation. These simulations support that the ketone insertion step has the highest energy transition state and reveal an unexpected interaction between the carbonyl-oxygen lone pair and a Rh d-orbital in this transition state structure. Finally, a model based on the calculated transition-state geometry is proposed to rationalize the absolute sense of enantioinduction observed using (R)-DTBM-SEGPHOS as the chiral ligand. In the experimental materials used by the author, we found (R)-(6,6′-Dimethoxybiphenyl-2,2′-diyl)bis[bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine](cas: 256390-47-3SDS of cas: 256390-47-3)
(R)-(6,6′-Dimethoxybiphenyl-2,2′-diyl)bis[bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)phosphine](cas: 256390-47-3) belongs to chiral phosphine ligands. Nucleophilic phosphine catalysis often involves the formation of Lewis adducts, namely phosphonium (di)enolate zwitterions, as reaction intermediates. SDS of cas: 256390-47-3 These intermediates are formed through nucleophilic attack of the phosphine catalysts at electron-poor nuclei (normally carbon atoms) and then proceed through several steps to form new chemical bonds.
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Phosphine ligand,
Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis