Repository logo
 

An Enantioselective Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling To Form Axially Chiral Biphenols.

Published version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

Change log

Authors

Pearce-Higgins, Robert 
Hogenhout, Larissa N 
Docherty, Philip J 
Whalley, David M 
Chuentragool, Padon  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-8455

Abstract

Axial chirality features prominently in molecules of biological interest as well as chiral catalyst designs, and atropisomeric 2,2'-biphenols are particularly prevalent. Atroposelective metal-catalyzed cross-coupling is an attractive and modular approach to access enantioenriched biphenols, and yet existing protocols cannot achieve this directly. We address this challenge through the use of enantiopure, sulfonated SPhos (sSPhos), an existing ligand that has until now been used only in racemic form and that derives its chirality from an atropisomeric axis that is introduced through sulfonation. We believe that attractive noncovalent interactions involving the ligand sulfonate group are responsible for the high levels of asymmetric induction that we obtain in the 2,2'-biphenol products of Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, and we have developed a highly practical resolution of sSPhos via diastereomeric salt recrystallization.

Description

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council


Funder: GlaxoSmithKline


Funder: Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge


Funder: AstraZeneca

Keywords

Catalysis, Ligands, Stereoisomerism

Journal Title

J Am Chem Soc

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

0002-7863
1520-5126

Volume Title

144

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Sponsorship
European Research Council (757381)
Royal Society (URF\R\191003)
EPSRC (2110575)