Asymmetric Decarboxylative Cycloaddition of Vinylethylene

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Asymmetric Decarboxylative Cycloaddition of Vinylethylene Carbonates with #-Nitroolefins by Cooperative Catalysis of Palladium Complex and Squaramide Ke Liu, IJAZ KHAN, Jiong Cheng, Yu Jen Hsueh, and Yong Jian Zhang ACS Catal., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b03582 • Publication Date (Web): 02 Nov 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on November 2, 2018

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Asymmetric Decarboxylative Cycloaddition of Vinylethylene Carbonates with β-Nitroolefins by Cooperative Catalysis of Palladium Complex and Squaramide Ke Liu, Ijaz Khan, Jiong Cheng, Yu Jen Hsueh and Yong Jian Zhang* School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China KEYWORDS: asymmetric catalysis, cooperative catalysis, palladium catalysis, chiral squaramide, multisubstituted tetrahydrofurans, cycloaddition

ABSTRACT: An efficient method for the enantio- and diastereoselective construction of mutisubstituted tetrahydrofurans via asymmetric decarboxylative cycloaddition of vinylethylene carbonates with β-nitroolefins under cooperative catalysis system of palladium complex and squaramide is developed. By using a palladium complex generated in situ from Pd2(dba)3•CHCl3 and phosphoramidite L1 and chiral squaramide OC4 as cooperative catalysts under mild conditions, the process provided multisubstituted tetrahydrofurans bearing a quaternary stereocenter in good to high yields with acceptably high enantio- and diastereoselectivities.

Since the first report on the cycloaddition using palladiumtrimethylenemethane (TMM) complex as a 1,3-dipole with electron-deficient olefins by Trost and Chan in 1979,1 the Pdcatalyzed cycloaddition reactions through zwitterionic allylpalladium intermediates have been extensively investigated for the construction of various cyclic frameworks.2 Various allylic donors have successfully been applied for this transformation with diverse unsaturated electrophiles. Among them, vinyl epoxides have served as efficient C,O-dipoles in the Pd-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions to afford oxo-cyclic compounds.3,4 However, the process mostly limited to butadiene oxide and isoprene oxide, and the asymmetric variants are largely underdeveloped.5 Most recently, we developed vinylethylene carbonates (VECs) as more stable and readily accessible allylic donors and achieved the Pd-catalyzed asymmetric decarboxylative cycloaddition of VECs with various unsaturated electrophiles to afford diverse heterocycles with tetrasubstituted stereocenters in high efficiencies.6 Very recently, using VECs as 1,5-dipoles for the cycloaddition reactions have also been reported to construct medium-sized oxo-cyclic compounds.7 Both vinylepoxides and VECs give zwitterionic allylpalladium intermediates I with a palladium catalyst (Scheme 1). The πallyl species I attacks unsaturated electrophiles and followed by cycloaddition to afford desired products A. However, if the electrophilicity of the electrophiles are not strong enough, the π-allyl species I would undergo β-hydride elimination and isomerization to form α,β-unsaturated aldehydes B as byproducts.8 This might be a reason that double activated Michael acceptors are needed for the cycloaddition reaction with electron deficient alkenes.5d,e,6a,g Hou and co-workers

reported Pd-catalyzed asymmetric cycloaddition of vinyl epoxides with mono-activated Scheme 1. Cycloaddition of vinylepoxides or VECs with unsaturated electrophiles O O

or O

R

Pd

O

O

Pd R

R

E

Nu

O

O

E Nu H R A

I

R B

Scheme 2. Cooperative catalysis strategy cycloaddition of VECs with β-nitroolefins O N O

R' O O

O

Pd-L*

L* Pd

O

R1 H N H N R2

O O

O O

R2 N H

N H R1

O

R

the

O N R'

R 1

for

L* Pd O II

I R' O * * * R 3

R

NO2

nitroalkenes,5e but the enantioselectivity was lower. Most recently, they reported the asymmetric cycloaddition of vinyl epoxides with α,β-unsaturated ketones to provide multisubstituted tetrahydrofurans with high stereoselectivity.5c However, large excess of vinyl epoxides (4 equiv.) and long reaction time (5 days) were needed for the process. Therefore,

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the development of efficient methods for the cycloaddition reaction of VECs with single activated Michael acceptors is also highly appealing. Table 1. Condition optimizationsa Pd2(dba)3 . CHCl3 (2.5 mol%) ligand (10 mol%) organocatalyst (20 mol%)

O O

O

+ Ph

NO2

Ph 1a

O R P N R O

O Ar

N H

O P N O

O H Ph 4a

Ph 3aa

O O

L4

NO2

O

4 Å MS solvent, 20 oC, 42 h

2a

L1 R = iPr L2 R = (R)-1-phenylethyl L3 R = (S)-1-phenylethyl

Ph

O P N O

P N

L5

L6

O O OC1, Ar = 3,5-di-CF3C6H3; R = Me OC2, Ar = 4-CF3C6H4; R = Me Ar Ar OC3, Ar = 3,5-di-CF3C6H3; R,R = -(CH2)5N N N H H OC4, Ar = 4-CF3C6H4; R,R = -(CH2)5H N OC6, Ar = 4-CF3C6H4 R R OC5, Ar = 4-OMeC6H4; R,R = -(CH2)5-

O

entr y

liga nd

OC

solvent

yield (%) of 3aab

ee (%)c

drd

1

L1

-

THF

70

75

>20:1

2

L2

-

THF

59

17

>20:1

3

L3

-

THF

73

21

>20:1

4

L4

-

THF

36

70

>20:1

5

L5

-

THF

47

3

>20:1

6

L1

OC1

THF

42

77

10:1

7

L1

OC2

THF

51

80

>20:1

8

L1

OC3

THF

NR

-

-

9

L1

OC4

THF

63

83

20:1

10

L1

OC5

THF

48

71

>20:1

11

L6

OC4

THF

59

2

13:1

12

L1

OC4

toluene

73

92

14:1

13

L1

OC4

CH2Cl2

71

93

4:1

14

L1

OC4

CyH

NR

-

-

15

L1

OC4

dioxane

63

90

18:1

16

L1

OC4

MTBE

70

94

13:1

17

L1

OC4

DME

62

83

20:1

18

L1

OC4

CH3CN

34

37

8:1

19

L1

OC4

Et2O

74

95

14:1

20

L1

entOC4

Et2O

71

90

10:1

21

entL1

OC4

Et2O

64

-92

12:1

22

entL1

entOC4

Et2O

75

-95

14:1

23

L1

OC6

Et2O

46

75

6:1

24

L1

-

Et2O

67

91

>20:1

25

racL1

OC4

Et2O

61

1

9:1

a Reaction conditions: Pd (dba) •CHCl (2.5 mol%), ligand (10 2 3 3 mol%), organocatalyst (20 mol%), 1a (0.3 mmol), 2a (0.2 mmol), 4 Ǻ molecular sieves (50 mg), solvent (0.4 mL), 20 oC, 42 h. b Isolated yields for the mixture of the diastereomers. c Determined by HPLC using a chiral stationary phase. The absolute configuration was confirmed by X-ray crystallography of 5 (see Scheme 3). d Determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy of the crude reaction mixture.

Nitroolefins as important Michael acceptors have been applied in the asymmetric conjugated addition to construct highly functionalized chiral building blocks.9 For the catalytic asymmetric Michael addition to nitroolefins, hydrogenbonding catalysts, especially chiral squaramides,10 have recently emerged as an important strategy due to their ability to form stronger hydrogen bonds with nitro group. Inspired by this organic catalytic strategy, we are interested in the development of cooperative catalysis system11 using palladium complex and squaramide to achieve the decarboxylative cycloaddition of VECs with nitroolefins. Since the pioneer works by Gong12 and Takemoto13 respectively for the allylic substitution under cooperative catalysis system of palladium complex and chiral phase-transfer catalyst, the asymmetric allylic substitution catalyzed by synergetic transition metal and organocatalyst has recently attracted a great deal of attention.11 However, there have been no reports on the combination of transition-metal and squaramide for the allylic alkylation.14 We envisioned that the oxa-Michael addition of the zwitterionic allylpalladium intermediates I to nitroolefins could be realized by the squaramide activation to generate intermediate II (Scheme 2). The subsequent cycloaddition could occur to form desired products 3, and the stereochemistry could be controlled by the synergistic effect on chiral ligand and chiral squaramide. Herein, we report the asymmetric decarboxylative cycloaddition of VECs with βnitroolefins under cooperative catalysis system of palladium complex and squaramide to construct highly functionalized tetrahydrofurans with high absolute and relative stereocontrol. Initial studies focused on the decarboxylative cycloaddition of Ph-VEC 1a with (E)-β-nitrostyrene 2a as standard reaction partners. Based on our previous research results on the cycloaddition of VECs, we began our investigation by examining the cycloaddition of 1a (1.5 equiv.) with 2a (1.0 equiv.) in the presence of a Pd(0)-catalyst bearing different phosphoramidite ligands (Table 1). The reactions using phosphoramidites15 derived from binol proceeded to give desired product 3aa along with α,β-unsaturated aldehyde 4a as a byproduct (entries 1-3). The reaction with phosphoramidite L1 bearing diisopropylamino group revealed best results to afford cycloadduct 3aa in 70% yield with 75% ee and excellent diastereoselectivity (entry 1). The reaction could not improve by using the ligand L4 and L516 (entries 4 and 5). Next, we tried to investigate the reaction by the combination with chiral squaramide17 as a co-catalyst (entries 6-10). To our delight, the enantioselectivity could be improved to 83% ee by using Pd-catalyst with ligand L1 and chiral squaramide OC4 (entry 9). When the reaction was conducted in the presence of Pd-complex with achiral phosphoramidite L6 and chiral squaramide OC4, almost racemic product was obtained (entry 11). With the combination of ligand L1 and squaramide OC4, the process was examined in other solvents (entries 12-19). As the results, we found that the reaction in diethyl ether gave best results, providing the cycloadduct 3aa in 74% yield with 95% ee (entry 19), even though the diastereoselectivity was

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O O

O

+

R'

NO2

R 1

2 Me

4 Å MS Et2O, 20 oC, 42 h Br

NO2 Ph 3aa 74% yield 14:1 d.r.; 95% ee

NO2

O R 3 CF3

NO2

NO2

O

O

R'

NO2

O

Ph 3ab 65% yield 17:1 d.r.; 93% ee

O

Ph 3ac 71% yield >20:1 d.r.; 94% ee

Ph 3ad 50% yield 10:1 d.r.; 90% ee S

O

S

NO2 O

NO2

Ph 3ae 52% yield 8:1 d.r.; 93% ee

NO2 O

O Ph 3af 74% yield 6:1 d.r.; 98% ee

Ph 3ag 79% yield 4:1 d.r.; 97% ee

Ph

Ph 3ah 71% yield 10:1 d.r.; 98% ee Ph NO2 O

8

NO2 O

NO2

O

Ph 3ai 90% yield 6:1 d.r.; 92% ee Ph NO2 O

OMe 3ca 63% yield 3:1 d.r.; 86% ee NO2

O

NO2 O

Ph 3aj 81% yield 7:1 d.r.; 90% ee Ph NO2

Ph 3ak 82% yield 7:1 d.r.; 80% ee Ph NO2 O

O

Ph

NO2 O

F 3da 52% yield 13:1 d.r.; 96% ee Ph NO2 O

Ph

NO2

O

Cl 3ea 62% yield 16:1 d.r.; 88% ee Ph

Me 3ba 70% yield 7:1 d.r.; 92% ee

NO2

O

Br 3fa 57% yield >20:1 d.r.; 92% ee Ph

NO2

O

F F

3ga 58% yield >20:1 d.r.; 95% ee

Cl

Cl

3ha 61% yield >20:1 d.r.; 94% ee

O

3ia 72% yield 20:1 d.r.; 97% ee

S 3ja 74% yield 17:1 d.r.; 96% ee

a Reaction conditions: Pd (dba) •CHCl (2.5 mol%), L1 (10 2 3 3 mol%), OC4 (20 mol%), 1a (0.3 mmol), 2a (0.2 mmol), 4 Ǻ molecular sieves (50 mg), Et2O (0.4 mL), 20 oC, 42 h. Yields are of isolated materials for the mixture of the diastereomers. The ee values were determined by HPLC using chiral stationary phase. The absolute configuration was confirmed by X-ray crystallography of 5 (see Scheme 3). Those of the other products were assigned by analogy. The diastereomeric ratios were determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy of the crude reaction mixture.

(S,S)-OC4, the cycloadduct ent-3aa with the opposite configuration was obtained (entries 21 and 22), and the reaction with combination of (R)-L1 and (S,S)-OC4 showed better yield and stereoselectivity (entry 22). Notably, all of the four reactions (entries 19-22) only gave two diastereomers with indicated dr ratios, and no other diastereomers were found in the reaction mixture. However, the yield and stereoselectivity were decreased remarkably while the reaction performed in the presence of chiral ligand L1 and achiral squaramide OC6 (entry 23). When the reaction conducted with L1 without chiral squaramide OC4 in diethyl ether, the yield and enantioselectivty were slightly decreased (entry 24). Almost racemic product with worse diastereoselectivity was obtained when the reaction proceeded in the presence of racemic ligand L1 and the chiral OC4 (entry 25). These results indicated that the stereochemistry of the reaction depends on the chirality of the ligand and squaramide, and there is matching/mismatching effect of the ligand and squaramide on the reaction efficiency. The reaction likely undergoes reversible Michael addition and a subsequent stereochemistry-determining cycloaddition to form a thermodynamically stable product. With the optimal conditions in hand, the generality of this protocol was evaluated firstly by the reaction of Ph-VEC 1a with various (E)-β-nitroolefins 2. As shown in Table 2, the reactions with (E)-β-nitrostyrenes bearing different electronic nature proceeded quite well to afford corresponding cycloadducts 3 in good yields with high enantio- and diastereoselectivities. The versatile heterocycles can also be installed by the reaction of 1a with 2-furanyl or thiophenyl nitroethenes to furnish cycloadducts 3af-3ah in good yields with high enantioselectivities and good diastereoselectivities. 2-alkyl substituted nitroethenes were also suitable substrates for the reaction give tetrahydrofurans 3ai-3ak in high yields with good to high enantioselectivities and good diastereoselectivities. Next, we examined that the reactions of various 4-substituted VECs 1 with (E)-β-nitrostyrene 2a. Various substituted aryl VECs having different electronic and steric properties were converted into the corresponding mutisubstituted tetrahydrofurans 3ba-3ha in good yields with good to high enantio- and diastereoselectivities. The reactions of VECs with 4-furanyl or thiophenyl groups also proceeded smoothly to afford cycloadducts 3ia and 3ja in high yields with high level of stereoselectivities. Notably, the excessed VECs converted into the corresponding (E)-α,β–unsaturated aldehydes 4 for all of the examples. It should be noted that the reaction of 4-alkyl-substituted VECs or H-VEC were not effective in this reaction conditions. Scheme 3. Gram-scale transformation and elaboration of 3aa

Pd-complex with (S)-L1 and (S,S)-OC4, the product 3aa was obtained with slightly lower yields and stereoselectivity (entries 20 versus 19). Correspondingly, when the reaction was conducted in the presence of (R)-L1 with (R,R)-OC4 or

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Pd2(dba)3 . CHCl3 (2.5 mol%) L1 (10 mol%) OC4 (20 mol%) 4 Å MS Et2O, 20 oC, 72 h

Ph

NO2

Ph

NH

O Ph 3aa

0.94 g 80% yield 12:1 d.r.; 93% ee

55%

O Ph 6

Ts N

Ph

Grubbs 1st 97%

O Ph 7

The synthetic versatility of the present protocol was demonstrated by the gram-scale transformations and product derivatization (Scheme 3). The cycloaddition of 1a with 2a on the 4 mmol scale proceeded well to afford tetrahydrofuran 3aa in 80% yield (0.94 g) with 93% ee and a 12:1 diastereomeric ratio. Reduction of nitro- group of 3aa and subsequent acylation with 4-bromobenzoyl chloride furnished compound 5 in 83% yield for the two steps. The absolute configuration of 5 was unambiguously assigned by X-ray crystallography (CCDC1863525). Next we tried to elaborate the tetrahydrofuran 3aa into bicyclic heterocycles 7. The tetrahydrofuran 3aa underwent reduction, tosylation and subsequent allylation to afford compound 6 in 55% of total yield. Ring-closing metathesis of 6 with Grubbs first generation catalyst gave octahydrofuro[3,4-b]pyridine 7 in 97% yield. In conclusion, we have developed an efficient method for the enantio- and diastereoselective construction of multisubstituted tetrahydrofurans via asymmetric decarboxylative cycloaddition of VECs with β-nitroolefins under cooperative catalysis system of palladium complex and squaramide. By using a palladium complex generated in situ from Pd2(dba)3•CHCl3 and phosphoramidite L1 and chiral squaramide OC4 as cooperative catalysts under mild conditions, the cycloaddition reaction provided multisubstituted tetrahydrofurans bearing a quaternary stereocenter in good to high yields with acceptably high enantio- and diastereoselectivities. The synthetic utility of the process has been demonstrated by the gram-scale transformation and the product derivatization. Further studies to expand the scope of the cycloaddition reaction through zwitterionic allylpalladium intermediates are currently underway and will be reported in due course.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21572130, 21871179). We thank Mr. Hong Jiang and Prof. Yong Cui for X-ray crystallography analysis. We thank the Instrumental Analysis Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University for HRMS analysis.

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