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Cette thèse présente des avancées dans la synthèse et l'utilisation en catalyse énantiosélective de structures bicycliques à phosphore optiquement actif: les 1-phosphanorbornadiènes (1-PNBD). Le premier chapitre est consacré à une étude bibliographique sur les diphosphines chélatantes à phosphore asymétrique et leurs performances en catalyse énantiosélective. Le second chapitre décrit la mise au point et les performances catalytiques d'une nouvelle famille de diphosphines mixtes 1-PNBD-Phosphine. Le troisième chapitre reporte la synthèse d'un bis-1-PNBD de symétrie C2 par réaction de McMurry. Les tests catalytiques réalisés permettent de démontrer l'efficacité de cette nouvelle structure, en hydrogénation des oléfines et sur des réactions de couplage de type Heck asymétrique ou Tsuji-Trost. Le quatrième chapitre reporte l'emploi de cette nouvelle structure pour stabiliser des nanoparticules de palladium. Les résultats obtenus en C- et N-alkylation allylique, ainsi que la possiblité de recyclage de ce type de catalyseur démontrent l'intérêt de cette approche. Le dernier chapitre présente une nouvelle voie d'accès aux 1-phosphanorbornanes. Ces phosphines sont difficilement accessibles par synthèse directe. Grâce à une étude physico-chimique, il a été démontré que les phosphanorbornanes possèdent un caractère basique prononcé par rapport aux 1-PNBD. Ceci pourrait permettre d'élargir le champ d'application de la structure 1-PNBD en catalyse asymétrique.

Ces travaux de thèse portent sur la mise au point de méthodologies de synthèses diastéréosélectives inter- et intramoléculaires d'ortho-1,2-diaminoalkylphénols, motif présent dans la structure des bioxalomycines, cyanocyclines et naphthyridinomycine. Stratégies intermoléculaires: une nouvelle réaction de Mannich phénolique diastéréodivergente à trois composants, catalysée par des acides de Lewis doux de type triflate d'ytterbium, a été mise au point pour la synthèse d' ortho-1,2-diaminoalkylphénols chiraux, à partir d'un phénol, d'un N,N-dibenzyl-alpha-amino aldéhyde et d'une amine. Stratégies intramoléculaires: une nouvelle réaction de cyclisation intramoléculaire de bis-trichloroacétimidates de 2-amino-1,3-diols chiraux, permet l'accès au motif trans-5-amino-4-aryl-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3-oxazine, par un mécanisme SN1. L'application de cette méthodologie sur un substrat plus avancé de type tétrahydroisoquinoléine a permis d'obtenir une dihydrooxazine avec le motif diamine vicinale de configuration syn présente dans le squelette des bioxalomycines. A partir de la cristallisation d'un composé macropalladacycle peptidique bis-sigma-arylpalladium impliqué dans une réaction tandem de N-arylation intramoléculaire / activation C-H / couplage Caryl-Caryl développée au laboratoire pour la synthèse de diazaphénanthrènes-benzodiazépinones, des conditions divergentes ont été développées, basées sur la compétitivité d'une réaction de Heck. Cette nouvelle méthode ouvre la voie au motif 3-(N-méthylphényl)acrylate benzodiazépinone.

<p>Catalysis has a profound impact on all living species on the earth. Nature’s catalysts, the enzymes, have the ability to selectively promote a specific bio-chemical transformation, given the required substrate. As well as being highly selective, enzymes enhance the speed of these reactions, helping them to run at temperatures much lower than normally required, i.e. at body temperature. In comparison, reactions used in the production of new materials such as polymers, medicines, fragrances, petrochemicals, etc. are often catalyzed by transition metals. This thesis describes how the selectivity and activity of these catalysts can be influenced via two conceptually different methods: chelation control and microwave heating. The thesis primarily focuses on regio- and stereochemical aspects of the palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins, i.e. the Heck reaction. Reaction rate enhancement of both palladium and enzyme (polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) catalysis by microwave heating is also discussed. </p><p>Novel chelation-controlled palladium-catalyzed multi- and asymmetric arylations of vinyl ethers were performed, resulting in tetra-substituted olefins as well as chiral quaternary carbon centers with excellent optical purity. In addition, a new synthetic route to diarylated ethanals, relying on a double chelation-controlled regioselective arylation followed by hydrolysis, has been discovered. High temperature conditions, using microwave heating, substantially reduce the reaction time for ligand-controlled asymmetric Heck arylations, while retaining levels of enantioselectivity in most cases. In addition, a potentially useful fast synthetic protocol for the employment of aryl boronic acids in oxidative Heck arylation was developed. Finally, microwave-assisted PCR was described for the first time; this method allows reductions in the run time of 50%.</p>

Catalysis has a profound impact on all living species on the earth. Nature’s catalysts, the enzymes, have the ability to selectively promote a specific bio-chemical transformation, given the required substrate. As well as being highly selective, enzymes enhance the speed of these reactions, helping them to run at temperatures much lower than normally required, i.e. at body temperature. In comparison, reactions used in the production of new materials such as polymers, medicines, fragrances, petrochemicals, etc. are often catalyzed by transition metals. This thesis describes how the selectivity and activity of these catalysts can be influenced via two conceptually different methods: chelation control and microwave heating. The thesis primarily focuses on regio- and stereochemical aspects of the palladium-catalyzed arylation of olefins, i.e. the Heck reaction. Reaction rate enhancement of both palladium and enzyme (polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) catalysis by microwave heating is also discussed. Novel chelation-controlled palladium-catalyzed multi- and asymmetric arylations of vinyl ethers were performed, resulting in tetra-substituted olefins as well as chiral quaternary carbon centers with excellent optical purity. In addition, a new synthetic route to diarylated ethanals, relying on a double chelation-controlled regioselective arylation followed by hydrolysis, has been discovered. High temperature conditions, using microwave heating, substantially reduce the reaction time for ligand-controlled asymmetric Heck arylations, while retaining levels of enantioselectivity in most cases. In addition, a potentially useful fast synthetic protocol for the employment of aryl boronic acids in oxidative Heck arylation was developed. Finally, microwave-assisted PCR was described for the first time; this method allows reductions in the run time of 50%.

Homogeneous palladium-catalyzed Heck vinylation of aryl chlorides was investigated under air using Herrmann’s palladacycle and the P(t-Bu)3-liberating salt [(t-Bu)3PH]BF4. Based on the results, controlled microwave heating was utilized to accelerate model Heck reactions with aryl chlorides down to 30 min employing an electron-poor olefin and a mixture of an ionic liquid and 1,4-dioxane as solvent. For the first time, a highly regioselective general protocol has been developed for palladium-catalyzed terminal (β-) arylation of acyclic vinyl ethers using inexpensive aryl chlorides as starting materials and the preligand [(t-Bu)3PH]BF4 as the key additive. This swift and straightforward protocol exploits non-inert conditions and controlled microwave heating to reduce handling and processing times, and aqueous DMF or environmentally friendly PEG-200 as the reaction medium. Somewhat higher selectivity for the linear β-product was observed in PEG-200. DFT calculations were performed at the B3LYP level of theory for the regioselectivity-determining insertion step in the Heck reaction following the neutral pathway. A series of para-substituted phenylpalladium(II) complexes was investigated in the computational study. The calculations support a ligand-driven selectivity rationale, where the electronic and steric influence of the bulky P(t-Bu)3 ligand provides improved β-selectivity. The preparative methodology was used to synthesize the β-adrenergic blocking agent Betaxolol. Highly stereoselective Pd(0)-catalyzed β-arylation and β-vinylation of a tetra-substituted cyclopentenyl ether have been accomplished using a chiral, pyrrolidine-based and substrate-bound palladium(II)-directing group under neutral reaction conditions. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this P(t-Bu)3-mediated method represents the first examples of the successful utilization of aryl and vinyl chlorides in asymmetric Heck reactions. The Heck arylation products formed were hydrolyzed and isolated as the corresponding quaternary 2-aryl-2-methyl cyclopentanones in good to moderate two-step yields with excellent stereoselectivity (90-96% ee). Inclusion of vinyl triflates under neutral reaction conditions and one aryl triflate equipped with a strongly electron-withdrawing para-cyano substituent under cationic conditions increased the preparative usefulness of the methodology. Furthermore, diastereoselective Heck arylation of both five- and six-membered cyclic vinyl ethers with aryl bromides, using the identical chiral auxiliary and suitable Pd sources, was performed. Arylated products from the tetra-substituted cyclopentenyl ether were also in this case hydrolyzed to the corresponding 2-aryl-2-methyl cyclopentanones with high to excellent enantioselectivity (85-94% ee). Despite low reaction rates and relatively modest yields, arylation reactions with the tri-substituted cyclohexenyl ether were found to be highly diastereoselective (94-98% de). Thus, an attractive supplement to direct Pd(0)-catalyzed α-arylation protocols, particularly when the use of organic chlorides, aryl bromides, and milder reaction conditions are of great importance, have been developed.

The electronic structures and reaction mechanisms of transition-metal complexes can be calculated accurately by density functional theory (DFT) in cooperation with the continuum solvation model. The palladium catalyzed Heck reaction, iron-model complexes for cytochrome P450 and superoxide reductase (SOR), and tetrairon hexathiolate hydrogenase model were investigated. The DFT calculations on the catalytic Heck reaction (between phenyl-bromide and ethylene to form the styrene product), catalyzed by palladium diphosphine indicate a four-step mechanism: oxidative addition of C6H5Br, migratory insertion of C6H5 to C2H4, b-hydride transfer/olefin elimination of styrene product, and catalyst regeneration by removal of HBr. For the oxidative addition, the rate-determining step, the reaction through monophosphinopalladium complex is more favorable than that through either the diphosphinopalladium or ethylene-bound monophosphinopalladium. In further study, for a steric phosphine, PtBu3, the oxidative-addition barrier is lower on monopalladium monophosphine than dipalladium diphosphine whereas for a small phosphine, PMe3, the oxidative addition proceeds more easily via dipalladium diphosphine. Of the phosphine-free palladium complexes examined: free-Pd, PdBr-, and Pd(h2-C2H4), the olefin-coordinated intermediate has the lowest barrier for the oxidativeaddition. P450 and SOR have the same first-coordination-sphere, Fe[N4S], at their active sites but proceed through different reaction paths. The different ground spin states of the intermediate FeIII(OOH)(SCH3)(L) model {L = porphyrin for P450 and four imidazoles for SOR} produce geometric and electronic structures that assist i) the protonation on distal oxygen for P450, which leads to O-O bond cleavage and formation of (FeIV=O)(SCH3)(L) H2O, and ii) the protonation on proximal oxygen for SOR, which leads to (FeIII-HOOH)(SCH3)(L) formation before the Fe-O bond cleavage and H2O2 production. The hydrogen bonding from explicit waters also stabilizes FeIII-HOOH over FeIV=O H2O products in SOR. The electrochemical hydrogen production by Fe4[MeC(CH2S)3]2(CO)8 (1) with 2,6-dimethylpyridinium (LutH ) were studied by the DFT calculations of proton-transfer free energies relative to LutH and reduction potentials (vs. Fc/Fc ) of possible intermediates. In hydrogen production by 1, the second, more highly reductive, applied potential (-1.58 V) has the advantage over the first applied potential (-1.22 V) in that the more highly reduced intermediates can more easily add protons to produce H2.

(-)-Kainic acid and its C-4 epimer, (+)-allokainic acid are parent members of a class of substituted pyrrolidines known as kainoids. They have been found to exhibit powerful biological properties, principally neuroexcitatory. Kainic acid has become especially important in the study of Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and other neurological disorders. The total syntheses of (-)-kainic acid and (+)-allokainic acid were achieved using (L)-glutamic acid as the starting material and the sole source of stereochemical induction. The key steps for these successful syntheses involve formation of the gamma-lactam core via rhodium (II) catalyzed intramolecular C-H insertion of the alpha-diazo-alpha-(phenylsulfonyl)acetamide intermediate and the stereoselective dephenylsufonylation. Pd(II)-catalyzed and oxygen promoted carbon-carbon bond formation methodologies using organoboronic reagents were developed. The first one is a mild and efficient Pd(II) catalysis, leading to the formation of carbon-carbon bonds between a broad spectrum of organoboron compounds and alkenes. Molecular oxygen was employed to reoxidize the resultant Pd(0) species back to Pd(II) during catalytic cycles.This oxygen protocol promoted the desired Pd(II) catalysis, whereas it retarded competing Pd(0) catalytic pathways such as Heck or Suzuki couplings. The second one is the formation of symmetric biaryls and dienes via oxidative dimerization of aryl and alkenyl boronic acids. These conditions utilized Pd(II) catalysts under an oxygen atmosphere with water as the solvent. The use of phase transfer catalysts promoted efficient and mild syntheses of a wide range of materials.

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L'ouverture de cycle aromatique catalysée par le palladium a été récemment observée par une équipe de l'ENSTA. Ce type de réactivité du palladium n'a jamais été observé auparavant et entre en compétition avec l'activation C-H classique. Ce travail de thèse a consisté à étudier ces réactions d'un point de vue théorique pour mieux en comprendre les mécanismes.Nous avons tout d'abord cherché la fonctionnelle permettant la meilleure description de la compétition entre la complexation azote/alcène en comparant plus de soixante fonctionnelles à des calculs CCSD(T)/CBS. Nous avons retenu la fonctionnelle GGA BP86.Nous avons ensuite étudié la réaction de Heck intramoléculaire à partir de la N-allyl-2-iodo-aniline. Nous avons justifié que l'indole soit le produit majoritairement obtenu, et montré que l'azote ne joue pas de rôle sur la régiosélectivité. Cependant, dans certains cas, l'azote inhibe la réaction en piégeant le complexe de palladium. Une étude théorique a montré que le facteur prépondérant de cette inhibition est la population électronique de l'azote et non l'hybridation du carbone benzylique.L'ouverture du furane a été ensuite considérée. Parmi tous les mécanismes proposés, notre étude théorique a montré que la voie principale est celle de la β-alkoxyelimination, potentiellement assistée par la trialkylamine présente dans le milieu.Enfin, nous avons étudié l'ouverture du benzylfurfurylaniline. Le mécanisme est similaire à celui observé pour l'ouverture du furane jusqu'à la régénération du complexe de palladium catalytique. En effet, dans le ce cas, la base azotée joue le rôle d'un donneur de proton.