167611-57-6Relevant articles and documents
Diastereoselective inter- and intramolecular pinacol coupling of aldehydes promoted by monomeric titanocene(III) complex Cp2TiPh
Yamamoto,Hattori,Miwa,Nakagai,Kubota,Yamamoto,Okamoto,Itoh
, p. 3865 - 3870 (2007/10/03)
A monomeric titanocene(III) derivative, Cp2TiPh, effectively promoted the pinacol coupling of both an aromatic aldehyde, benzaldehyde, and an aliphatic aldehyde, 3-phenylpropionaldehyde. The same reactive complex was successfully generated by a catalytic amount of a precursor, Cp2Ti(Ph)Cl, and its stoichiometric amount of Zn. The Cp2TiPh-catalyzed pinacol coupling of benzaldehyde derivatives and aliphatic aldehydes afforded the corresponding 1,2-diols in high yields with moderate to good threo-selectivity. On the other hand, Cp2TiPh-catalyzed pinacol-cyclization of dials gave cyclic 1,2-diols with excellent diastereoselectivity. The extension of this protocol to chiral dials demonstrated that the phenyltitanium complex catalytically transmitted an axial chirality or a central, chirality of the starting dials to the central chirality of the resultant 1,2-diols.