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 u...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.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Nos.20773147, 21073211, 21174133）.
文摘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.
