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Aqueous asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reaction catalyzed by chiral gallium Lewis acid with trost-type semi-crown ligands

  • Hui Jing Li
  • , Hong Yu Tian
  • , Yan Chao Wu
  • , Yong Jun Chen
  • , Li Liu
  • , Dong Wang*
  • , Chao Jun Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The combination of Ga(OTf)3 with chiral semi-crown ligands (1a-e) generates highly effective chiral gallium Lewis acid catalysts for aqueous asymmetric aldol reactions of aromatic silyl enol ethers with aldehydes. A ligand-acceleration effect was observed. Water is essential for obtaining high diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity. The p-phenyl substituent in aromatic silyl enol. ether (2 h) plays an important role and increases the enantioselectivity up to 95% ee. Although aliphatic silyl enol ethers provided low enantioselectivities and silylketene acetal is easily hydrolyzed in aqueous alcohol, the aldol reactions of silylketene thioacetal (12) with aldehydes in the presence of gallium-Lewis acid catalysts give the β-hydroxy thioester with reasonable yields and high diastereo- (up to 99:1) and enantioselectivities (up to 96% ee).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1247-1256
Number of pages10
JournalAdvanced Synthesis and Catalysis
Volume347
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Aqueous asymmetric C-C bond-forming reaction
  • Chiral semi-crown ligand
  • Gallium-Lewis acid catalyst, Mukaiyama aldol reaction

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