The conversion of alkynyl carbonyls to allenyl carbonyls via manganese mediated coordination followed by a base-catalyzed isomerization was carried out using a range of chiral and achiral amine bases. Chiral amidine and chiral DBU derivatives were synthesized to carry out the isomerization enantioselectively. We employed HPLC equipped with a chiral column to determine the enantiomeric excess. We also proved that the mechanism of that the manganese-coordinated alkyne/allene rearrangement reaction involved an intermediate cumenolate. It was also confirmed that amine base with pKa lower than that of DBU (pKa = 13.6) would not carry out the isomerization. Alkoxy base were also used in isomerization and the mechanism was also investigated. / by Chang He. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The present dissertation research is largely focused on the methods to synthesize highly substituted allene derivatives from alkynes in conjugation with carbonyl-containing functional groups. A key aspect of this research involves methylcyclopentadienylmanganese dicarbonyl (MMD), an inexpensive and air-stable organometallic auxiliary linked to alkynyl carbonyls via an η2-bond. This auxiliary influences bond formation to achieve enhanced stereoselectivity without itself undergoing any chemical transformation. Chapter 1 accounts various examples of such transition metal auxiliaries including MMD. Typically conjugated alkynyl carbonyls do not isomerize to thermodynamically less favored allenes. However, with the MMD auxiliary in place, alkynyl carbonyl compounds undergo facile 1,3-proton shifts in the presence of a mild base to produce allene isomers. Although allenyl aldehydes are important building blocks, we note that direct methods to prepare them nonracemically are not known. Chapter 2 describes the development of a new cinchonine-based phase transfer catalyst to access non-racemic allenyl aldehydes from MMD-complexed alkynyl aldehydes. With the manganese auxiliary in place, nonracemic allenyl aldehydes were obtained in a weakly basic biphasic reaction system via enantioselective protonation conditions. Chapter 3 describes the second use of the MMD auxiliary to direct nucleophilic addition reactions to allenyl aldehydes for the preparation of 2,3-allenols diastereoselectively. In the absence of the MMD auxiliary, nucleophilic reactions to the carbonyl group of axially chiral allenyl aldehydes is poorly diastereoselective, which is a long-standing problem. We observed that, in addition to leading to non-racemic allenyl aldehydes, the MMD auxiliary could also be used to improve diastereoselectivity in carbonyl additions due to its proximal position on the 2,3-bond of the allenyl aldehyde. Chapter 4 describes the use of allenyl esters as metathesis quenching agents. It was observed that the addition of an allenyl ester after a metathesis reaction was complete; facilitate the removal of most ruthenium metal impurities using simple silica chromatographic purification. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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Quaternary centres bearing a nitrogen atom are found in natural products and therapeutic agents but they represent a remarkably challenging synthetic motif to access when stereochemical control is required. This thesis details investigations into the development of an innovative approach that - by combining biocatalysis with organolithium chemistry - allows the synthesis of enantioenriched α-tertiary amines. The strategy relies on the initial enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of amines. Two complementary pathways were identified: deracemisation with amine oxidases or enantioselective reduction with imine reductases. The enantioenriched amines were converted to the corresponding N-benzyl-N'-aryl ureas and subsequent organolithium-mediated stereospecific aryl migration developed in the Clayden group were carried out to obtain α-tertiary amines. Various scaffold were investigated: 1,1-disubstituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline, 2,2-disubstituted azepane and 1,1-disubstituted 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-benzo[c]azepine derivatives were successfully synthesised. The methodology was extended to acyclic systems, giving 3-pyridyl-derived α-tertiary amines.

Chiral quaternary centers possessing a bond to nitrogen are an important class of amine compounds, however, methods for their enantioselective preparation remain sparse. The focus of my graduate research described herein has been the development of a novel rhodium-catalyzed regio- and enantioselective allylic aryl amination of tertiary trichloroacetimidates for the synthesis of amine-bearing quaternary centers (also termed α,α-disubstituted amines). Prior to our work, allylic carbonates and acetates had been successfully utilized in transition-metal catalyzed substitution reactions with anilines for the asymmetric synthesis of tertiary centers. In contrast, these electrophiles have not proven useful in dynamic kinetic asymmetric transformations (DYKAT) that yield enantioenriched amine products, and no reports describing the asymmetric preparation of α,α-disubstituted allylic aryl amines via allylic substitution are noted. Many of the ideas for development of our rhodium-catalyzed amination method were based upon the findings of Overman where linear allylic trichloroacetimidates are utilized in [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements and substitution reactions by oxygen nucleophiles under palladium (II) catalysis. Our method diverges from this previous work by application of branched allylic trichloroacetimidates where the olefin component is mono-substituted, and the use of a transition-metal complex capable of facile oxidative addition to an intermediate organometallic complex. We hypothesized that bidentate chelation of these substrates at the imidate nitrogen and the relatively unimpeded olefin by a rhodium (I) complex would lead to rapid ionization to an activated complex and competent electrophile for substitution by neutral aniline nucleophiles. This premise was supported by many control studies and resulted in the development of a highly regioselective amination of branched allylic trichloroacetimidates for the operationally simple synthesis of α-substituted and α,α-disubstituted allylic aryl amines. Work followed utilizing chiral diene ligands that rendered the reaction enantioselective for preparation of enantioenriched tertiary and quaternary amine-containing centers. A highlight of these studies is the first example of DYKAT using a tertiary electrophile and an aryl amine nucleophile. The reaction is of broad substrate scope, is tolerant of varied functionality and substitution patterns on the nucleophilic partner, and solves regioselectivity issues often encountered with some substrate and aniline classes. I end by showing the synthetic utility of our rhodium-catalyzed reaction by applying this method to the synthesis of enantioenriched amino acids and construction of 7-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycles by a 2-step DYKAT amination and olefin hydroacylation sequence.

Deux thématiques principales ont été étudiées au cours de cette thèse. La première partie porte sur la synthèse de complexes de manganèse dérivés de porphyrines et de salens. L'activité catalytique de ces complexes a été évaluée dans l'époxydation d'alcènes non-Fonctionnalisés. Suite à cette étude, les propriétés électroniques des ligands ont été étudiées, notamment par le biais de la complexation d'anions. Dans une deuxième étape, nous nous sommes intéressés à la synthèse de phosphines P-Chirogéniques. Afin de trouver un substitut à l'éphédrine, couramment utilisée dans ces synthèses, des dérivés du (1S,2S)-2-Aminocyclohexanol et de la D-Glucosamine ont été synthétisés. L'utilisation de groupements sulfonamides a permis l'obtention aisée d'oxazaphospholidines N-Tosylées. L'un ou l'autre diastéréoisomère de cet hétérocycle peut être obtenu en fonction du degré d'oxydation du réactif phosphoré utilisé. Avec cette stratégie, divers oxydes de phosphines ont été obtenus avec de bons rendements et de bonnes énantiosélectivités / This thesis is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on the synthesis of manganese complexes derived from porphyrins and salens. The catalytic activity of these complexes were evaluated toward the epoxidation of unfunctionalized alkenes. Next, the electronic properties of the ligands were evaluated using their anion binding properties. In a second part, we were interested in the synthesis of P-Chirogenic phosphines. In order to find a surrogate to ephedrine, that is commonly used in those syntheses, derivatives from (1S,2S)-2-Aminocyclohexanol and D-Glucosamine were synthesized. The use of sulfonamides allows the access to N-Tosylated oxazaphospholidines. Both diastereoisomers could be synthesized depending on the oxydation state of the phosphine precursor. Using this strategy, various phosphine oxides were obtained in good yields and enantioselectivities

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Aminophosphonic and related compounds were almost unknown 50 years ago, but today the literature data have considerably increased. Their negligible mammalian toxicity and their similarity with aminoacids confer on these compounds a top place as potential candidates for drugs. The discovery of numerous natural aminophosphonic derivatives endowed with biological properties useful to both medicinal and agricultural fields enhanced the infatuation for synthetic analogs and homologs. Intensive work has been performed towards alpha-aminophosphonic compounds, the direct analogs of natural alpha-aminoacids, disclosing versatile strategies, compatible both with molecular diversity and asymmetric synthesis. Less synthetic effort was devoted to the synthesis of higher homologs. Recent developments of the Diels-Alder reaction offer an asymmetric and convergent entry to various six-membered highly functionalizable key intermediates, compatible with molecular variety. As it is, the Diels-Alder (D-A) reaction should provide an original and versatile entry to beta-, gamma- and delta-aminophosphonic compounds, a challenging research area. As a direct consequence of the strategy, one of the two D-A partners (diene or dienophile) will act as vehicle for the phosphonate moiety. By contrast to its common use for the stabilization of alpha-negative charges, its implication in D-A reactions remains scarce. Indeed, the phosphonate moiety is not an efficient substituent susceptible to activate the D-A reaction; its use requires compensation by the activation of the other partner or by specific activation. Both synthetic organic and computational chemistry will furnish information to propose a fine understanding of the key D-A steps, in view to optimize the achievement of the corresponding cycloadducts. These cycloadducts will be considered as synth-/chirons for the synthesis of aminophosphonic compounds.

Design of new chiral ligands for asymmetric synthesis is important. The ligand should be economical and efficient in enantioselective transformations. For the synthesis of some natural products and biologically active compounds, optically active amines are used as important intermediates. For this reason, it is significant to develop new catalyst system which can produce optically active amines in an economical and efficient way. Our group developed PFAM ligands and used successfully for the enantioselective synthesis of organic compounds. In this work, these ligands were tested as chiral catalysts for enantioselective synthesis of amines. N-sulphonyl and N-phosphinoyl imines synthesized from aromatic aldehydes were used as the starting material for enantioselective diethylzinc addition reaction in the presence of copper salt and PFAM ligands. By improving the known procedure, N-benzylidine sulphonylaldimine was obtained in excellent yield (98%). Asymmetric diethylzinc addition reaction to N-sulphonyl and N-phosphinoyl aryaldimines provided chiral amines in up to 81% enantioselectivity and 99% yield.

Aldol addition reaction is one of the most important and most studied carbon-carbon bond forming reactions in organic chemistry. Recent studies focused on the catalytic version of this chemistry. Different from the classical Mukaiyama-type aldol reactions, chiral lewis bases have been used as promoters. In the presence of SiCl4, these reactions proceed through a cyclic transition state leading to anti aldol product as a major product with moderate-to-good diastereo and enantioselectivities. Phosphoramide derivatives, BINAPO, BINAPO derivatives, N,N-dioxides and N-oxides have been extensively used for this purpose. Recently, our group has designed new phosphine oxy aziridinyl phosphonates (POAP) as chiral Lewis bases. These promoters were used for the asymmetric aldol addition reaction between cyclohexanone and different aldehydes in the presence of SiCl4. Moreover, our previously designed phosphine oxy ferrocenyl substituted aziridinyl methanol (POFAM) ligands were also tested as Lewis bases. Among these 6 potential promoters, POAP-A gave the best results, and the aldol product were obtained in moderate to good yields up to 80%, and with moderate enantioselectivities (the highest, 66%) after standard optimization studies. Aldehyde screening experiments provided the highest enantioselectivity (68%) with 2- naphthaldehyde.