Synthesis 2013; 45(3): 308-325
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1316835
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Organocatalytic Stereoisomerization versus Alkene Isomerization: Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of 1-Hydroxy-trans-2,5-diphenylphospholane 1-Oxide

Lukas Hintermann*
a   Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany   Fax: +49(89)28913669   Email: lukas.hintermann@tum.de
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Marco Schmitz
a   Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany   Fax: +49(89)28913669   Email: lukas.hintermann@tum.de
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Oleg V. Maltsev
a   Department Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany   Fax: +49(89)28913669   Email: lukas.hintermann@tum.de
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Panče Naumov
b   New York University Abu Dhabi, PO Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE
c   Institute for Chemical Research and the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611–0011, Japan
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Publication History

Received: 22 September 2012

Accepted after revision: 28 November 2012

Publication Date:
09 January 2013 (online)


Abstract

The potential for an organocatalytic asymmetric stereoisomerization or alkene isomerization as atom-economic reaction with minimal structural change was investigated. The McCormack cycloaddition of 1,4-diarylbuta-1,3-dienes with (dialkylamino)dichlorophosphane and aluminum trichloride gives meso-2,5-diaryl-1-(dialkylamino)-1-oxo-2,5-dihydro-1H-phospholes, which were identified as suitable substrates for asymmetric isomerization to (1R,5R)-2,5-diaryl-1-(dialkylamino)-1-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-phospholes in the presence of bifunctional organocatalysts (cinchona alkaloids, Takemoto catalyst) in up to 91% ee and quantitative yield. The substrate range and the mechanism of the catalysis were studied. The reaction involves proton abstraction by the base, but a primary deuterium KIE is absent. Enriched (1R,5R)-1-(diethylamino)-1-oxo-2,5-diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-phosphole was hydrolyzed to (5R)-1-hydroxy-1-oxo-2,5-diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-phosphole, which was hydrogenated diastereoselectively under dissolving metal conditions to give (2R,5R)-1-hydroxy-1-oxo-2,5-diphenylphospholane (Fiaud’s acid) in preference to meso-1-hydroxy-1-oxo-2,5-diphenylphospholane. An asymmetric catalytic total synthesis of Fiaud’s acid, which is a building block for chiral phospholane synthesis, has been realized in five steps from thiophene, using nickel-catalyzed Wenkert arylation, McCormack cycloaddition, asymmetric dihydro-1H-phosphole isomerization, hydrolysis, and diastereo­selective hydrogenation.

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