Synthesis of Chiral Calixarene-Like Salen Ligand and Application in Catalytic Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Aromatic Amines with Glyoxylate

Chengjian Zhu; Chaoying Yuan; Yang Lv

doi:10.1055/s-2006-939684

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Synthesis of Chiral Calixarene-Like Salen Ligand and Application in Catalytic Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Aromatic Amines with Glyoxylate

Chengjian Zhu*^a,b, Chaoying Yuan^a, Yang Lv^a
^a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. of China
Fax: +86(25)83317761; e-Mail: cjzhu@netra.nju.edu.cn;
^b State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China

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Abstract

A new calixarene-like salen ligand is efficiently prepared from 2,6-bishydroxymethyl-4-tert-butyl phenol as starting material by a five-step synthesis. The enantioselective Friedel-Crafts reactions of aromatic amine with glyoxylate are examined employing a titanium derivative of this new ligand as the chiral catalyst, and provide modest to excellent enantioselectivities up to 98% ee.

Key words

salen ligand - macrocycle - asymmetric catalysis - Friedel-Crafts reaction - titanium complex

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Procedure for the Synthesis of Compound 6.
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Typical Procedure for the Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts Reaction of Aromatic Amine with Glyoxylate.
In a 15-mL Schlenk tube, salen compound 6 (32 mg, 0.05 mmol) was dissolved in 2 mL of Et₂O under argon atmosphere, followed by the addition of titanium tetraisopropoxide (0.5 M in Et₂O, 100 µL, 0.05 mmol) and the mixture was stirred for 2 h at r.t. The resulting solution was cooled to 0 °C, and then N,N-dimethylaniline (125 µL, 1 mmol) and freshly distilled ethyl glyoxylate (160 µL, 2 mmol) were introduced into the reaction system, and stirred at 0 °C for about 24 h. The reaction process was monitored by TLC. After completion of the reaction, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure, the product was separated by preparative TLC (PE-EtOAc, 4:1) to give 180 mg (85% yield) 2-(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-2-hydroxyacetic acid ethyl ester. [α]_D ²⁵ +103.2 (c 0.5, CHCl₃). ¹H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl₃): δ = 7.29-7.25 (m, 2 H), 6.73-6.65 (m, 2 H), 5.08 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, 1 H), 4.27-4.15 (m, 2 H), 3.33 (d, J = 6.0 Hz, 1 H), 2.96 (s, 6 H), 1.23 (t, 3 H). The ee was determined by HPLC on a Chiralcel OD-H column, hexane-2-PrOH = 95:5, flow rate = 1.0 mL/min; t _R = 18.64 (minor), t _R = 24.94 (major).

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