Issue 2, 2023

An unusual trans-hydrosilylation of prochiral 1,1-disubstituted cyclopropenes revealing the different nature of asymmetric palladium and rhodium catalysis

Abstract

Catalytic asymmetric hydrosilylation is an extremely important and atom-economical chemical transformation in the field of catalysis and synthetic chemistry. Although stereospecific hydrosilylation provides a general strategy for elaborating diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of optically pure organosilicon compounds, existing methods for accessing Si–C bond-forming hydrosilylation of alkenes rely almost entirely on terminal olefins. Herein, we reported a highly enantioselective palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation reaction of 1,1-disubstituted carbonyl cyclopropenes with dihydrophenylsilane. We demonstrated that the palladium catalyst system provided stereodivergence to enable the trans-type diastereoselective synthesis of a wide variety of silylcyclopropanes bearing a quaternary carbon-stereocenter with good diastereo- and enantioselectivities (up to >19 : 1 dr and 97% ee). The preliminary experimental results of mechanistic studies showed that the steric repulsion between the TADDOL-derived phosphoramidite ligand and substrate would be an important factor, allowing access to different and reversed diastereospecific hydrosilylation in comparison to rhodium catalysis.

Graphical abstract: An unusual trans-hydrosilylation of prochiral 1,1-disubstituted cyclopropenes revealing the different nature of asymmetric palladium and rhodium catalysis

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Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
24 Oct 2022
Accepted
01 Dec 2022
First published
02 Dec 2022

Org. Chem. Front., 2023,10, 430-439

An unusual trans-hydrosilylation of prochiral 1,1-disubstituted cyclopropenes revealing the different nature of asymmetric palladium and rhodium catalysis

H. Zhou, F. Ling, X. Fang, H. Zhu, L. Li, F. Ye, Z. Xu and L. Xu, Org. Chem. Front., 2023, 10, 430 DOI: 10.1039/D2QO01688E

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