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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 72, Issue 19, Pages 7185-7189Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo0709908
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S44181/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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[GRAPHICS] A wide variety of P-stereogenic aryldialkylphosphines were prepared in enantioenriched form by a systematic diversification of the (-)-sparteine-mediated dynamic kinetic resolution of racemic lithiophosphine-boranes reported by Livinghouse. Excellent asymmetric induction was observed provided that the intermediate lithiophosphine/sparteine complex precipitated from solution; more soluble derivatives returned poor ee's or racemic material. The resulting phosphine-boranes were deprotected and used as reagents in the desymmetrizing asymmetric aza-Wittig reaction of 2-alkyl-2-(3-azidopropyl)cyclohexane-1,3-diones, delivering the highest ee's yet observed in this process (up to 84% ee). Phosphines bearing bulky substituents required heating for the aza-Wittig reaction to proceed to completion, which P-31 NMR studies showed to be due to interception of the reaction by the formation of unreactive (E)-phosphazides. This was circumvented by use of methyltrioxorhenium to catalyze the formation of iminophosphoranes from the azide and phosphine, allowing reactions to take place at ambient temperature, although the ee's of the asymmetric reactions were reduced in these examples.
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