Abstract

An iron-catalyzed asymmetric oxidative homo-coupling of 2-naphthols for the synthesis of 1,1′-Bi-2-naphthol (BINOL) derivatives is reported. The coupling reaction provides enantioenriched BINOLs in good yields (up to 99%) and moderate enantioselectivities (up to 81:19 er) using an iron-complex generated in situ from Fe(ClO4)2 and a bisquinolyldiamine ligand [(1R,2R)-N1,N2-di(quinolin-8-yl)cyclohexane-1,2-diamine, L1]. A number of ligands (L2–L8) and the analogs of L1, with various substituents and chiral backbones, were synthesized and examined in the oxidative coupling reactions.

Highlights

  • Chiral compounds have aroused much attention from organic chemists due to their prevalence in natural products, bioactive molecules, functional materials, and their wide applications in asymmetric transformations [1]

  • Many elegant methods have been established for the asymmetric synthesis of axially chiral compounds, both employing transition-metal catalysts [2]

  • Discussion and it was interesting to find that the catalysts used were generated by in situ mixing of an ironSynthesis salt and ofanBisquinolyldiamine aminopyridine ligand

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Introduction

Chiral compounds (atropisomers) have aroused much attention from organic chemists due to their prevalence in natural products, bioactive molecules, functional materials, and their wide applications in asymmetric transformations [1]. BINOL-derived ligands/catalysts (i.e., BINAP [11], BINAM [12], chiral phosphoric acid [13], chiral phosphoramidite [14], and BINSA [15]; Figure 1) have been designed and synthesized. The emergence of such a library of ligands/catalysts has brought marvelous contributions to the synthetic community, with tremendously efficient asymmetric transformations such as reductive coupling [16], allylation [17], ene-type [18], and Aldol [19] reactions and axial chirality assembly [20]. Efficient vanadium-catalyzed [21] protocols were reported by the Uang [22], Chen [23], Gong [24,25,26], and Sasai [27,28,29] groups, independently

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