Abstract
Abstract Titanium(IV) complexes, [TiCl(Schiff base)]2O, with quadridentate Schiff base ligands derived from optically active 1,2-diamines and salicylaldehyde were prepared by treating TiCl4 with an equimolar amount of the Schiff base ligand in wet pyridine. The complexes were characterized by their 13C NMR, absorption, and circular dichroism spectra, and conductivity measurements. The complexes in dichloromethane take a μ-oxo dinuclear structure, and in methanol the complexes break up into a mononuclear species, [Ti(OMe)(MeOH)(Schiff base)]Cl. The complexes catalyze the asymmetric oxidation of methyl phenyl sulfide into the sulfoxide with organic hydroperoxides; the highest enantiomeric excess (ee) was ca. 60%. The kinetics conform to a rate law which is first order in the concentration of each sulfide, hydroperoxide, and complex catalyst.
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