Abstract
The development of potassium fluoride as a practical non-covalent support for a carboxylic acid containing a pyrrolidine substituent with organocatalytic activity in the asymmetric Michael addition is described. The immobilization is carried out by simply treating the catalytic ligand in dichloromethane (DCM) solution with non-anhydrous potassium fluoride (KF). XRD and FTIR results suggest that the organocatalyst is efficiently loaded onto KF through strong hydrogen bond (SHB) formation, affording the KF-supported catalyst (KF-supCAT, 8) for the direct asymmetric Michael addition of carbonyl compounds to trans-β-nitrostyrenes. Good yields, excellent diastereoselectivities (up to 99:1 syn:anti) and excellent enantioselectivities (up to 97% ee for the syn diastereomer) are recorded in the Michael additions of cyclohexanone to trans-β-nitrostyrenes, considerably improving previous results obtained with a closely related catalyst covalently immobilized onto polystyrene. The KF-supCAT could be recovered and recycled three times by increasing the supersaturation degree of the solution.
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