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Article

Brucine Diol-Catalyzed Enantioselective Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction in the Presence of Brucine N-Oxide

by
Venkatachalam Angamuthu
1,
Chia-Hung Lee
2,* and
Dar-Fu Tai
1,*
1
Department of Chemistry, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien 974003, Taiwan
2
Department of Life Science, National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien 974003, Taiwan
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Catalysts 2021, 11(2), 237; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal11020237
Submission received: 23 January 2021 / Revised: 3 February 2021 / Accepted: 5 February 2021 / Published: 10 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Catalysis in Organic and Polymer Chemistry)
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Brucine diol (BD) catalyzed asymmetric Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) reaction is observed for the first time. Brucine N-oxide (BNO) was found to not have an effective chiral catalyst. Faster reaction rate was obtained using unsaturated ester or aromatic aldehydes in the presence of BNO. 4-Nitrobenzaldehyde and α,β-unsaturated ketone/ester were converted to the MBH adduct in moderate yields (up to 74%) with 70% ee value by this catalytic system. The mechanism of BD catalysis is probably initiated by conjugating the vicinal diol of BD to the carbonyl group of the aromatic aldehyde through hydrogen bonding. The tertiary amine of BD acts as a nucleophile to activate vinyl ketone for coupling with the carbonyl of aldehyde through an intramolecular carbonylated reaction. Finally, the breakdown of the complex caused the formation of the MBH adduct (a benzyl-allyl alcohol). The chirality of the benzyl-allyl alcohol is likely affected by the interaction of the bulky asymmetric plane of BD.

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1. Introduction

Chiral amines are continuing to play a pivotal role as a catalyst in asymmetric synthesis [1]. The asymmetric induction of chiral secondary amines originates from the α-carbon chiral center to the nitrogen in the structure of the amine molecule [2,3,4,5]. In the case of chiral tertiary amines, the asymmetric induction by these catalysts is primarily derived from the nitrogen chiral center and a secondary anchoring group is often necessary. These chiral tertiary amines are usually classified as nucleophilic catalysts [6,7,8,9]. A number of tertiary amine N-oxides [10] have been developed and utilized for various asymmetric reactions. They are mainly cyclic aliphatic N-oxides [11] and pyridine N-oxides [12,13,14,15], acting as a ligand to coordinate with low valent transition metals [16] for metal-catalyzed reactions. Chiral natural products with bulky shapes and inflexibility [7,17] are used, such as brucine derivatives (1).
As shown in Scheme 1, Oh et al., used brucine N-oxide (BNO) as a chiral ligand for metal catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation [18]. They also reported the use of BNO 1a or 1b to catalyze asymmetric Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) reaction, but the chiral induction was due to the presence of (L)/(D)-proline [19,20]. Moreover, brucine diol (BD) was found to incorporate with copper (Ⅰ) salt to catalyze an asymmetric Henry reaction [21]. Integration of BD 2 with zinc was able to perform 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition [22,23,24] (Scheme 1).
The classical MBH reaction can be broadly defined as the C–C bond forming reaction between the α-position of an activated alkene and aldehyde to provide α-methylene-β-hydroxycarbonyl compound. The MBH reaction probably involves the mildest reaction condition and has been comprehensively reviewed [6,23,25,26,27,28,29].
The mechanism of the MBH reaction is complicated. There are several types of mechanism proposed in the literature. Type I is consistent with a nucleophilic 1,4 addition to the α,β-unsaturated compound by the catalyst (a tertiary amine or N-oxide, phosphines) to form a Michael-addition species, which further reacts with the aromatic aldehyde to form a ternary complex [28]. Decomposition of the ternary complex results in the MBH adduct and regenerates the catalyst.
Type II mechanism proceeds the same route as type I at the beginning to form the ternary complex, according to Aggarwal [30,31] and McQuade [32,33]. The addition of the fourth element (a protic polar solvent or another aldehyde) produces a 4-component species. Finally, this 4-component species decomposes to result in the MBH adduct and regenerates the catalyst.
The type III mechanism is proposed by Oh as a dual catalytic system [18]. It proceeds the same route as Type I at the earlier stage, N-oxide reacts with an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compound to form a Michael-addition species and then the ternary complex. Meanwhile, another aldehyde reacts with an L-proline to create a chiral iminium ion, which is attacked by the Michael-addition species to form a 3 plus 2 complexes. After decomposition, the nucleophile and hydrolysis of imine produce a chiral MBH adduct. The rate of this dual system would be low without L-proline, which also induces the chirality of MBH adduct.
The type IV mechanism is based on the catalyst attached with a hydroxyl group (a tertiary aminol) to enhance the rate of the MBH reaction. Many catalysts with a hydroxyl amine functional group demonstrate rate enhancement. As shown in Scheme 2, both Marko [34] and Barrett [35] proposed a similar concept to complex the substrates in which the Michael-addition species is bonded to the aldehyde with the help of the hydroxyl group. Formation of the hydrogen bonded intermediate is considered the rate determining step.
BD has not been studied as a catalyst for asymmetric MBH reaction so far. However, it possesses a vicinal diol which can act as carbonyl activator through hydrogen bindings. In addition to its unique aminol structure, we anticipated that BD could interact with various reactants to act as a nucleophilic catalyst for asymmetric MBH reaction. Based on the proposed type IV mechanism in Scheme 2, catalytic activity of BD is expected. Although BNO [18,19] can’t function asymmetrically alone, aliphatic N-oxides [11,36] have been known as a good nucleophile. N-oxides are easy to synthesize and preserve. Therefore, BNO was also considered as a co-catalyst with BD for asymmetric reaction. Herein, we report the investigation of catalytic ability of BD alone and BD with BNO as a co-catalyst in asymmetric MBH reaction.

2. Results and Discussion

The BNO 1b [37] and BD 2 [20] was synthesized as previously reported. Initially, 4-nitrobenzaldehyde and methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) were used as substrates in an MBH reaction to study the catalytic efficiency of BD. As shown in Table 1, variation in nonpolar solvent with 5 mol% of BD led to low yields and poor ee values (entries 1–4). Increasing the catalytic ratio of BD to 10 mol% in polar solvent (ethanol or dioxane) gave moderate yields and ee values (entries 5,6). As the catalytic load was increased to 20 mol% in acetonitrile (entry 7), the yield (61%) and ee value (59 %) also increased. The reaction time was monitored for 6 days. When BD increased to 30 mol%, the yield also increased to 69%, but the ee value reduced to 53% (entry 8). The optimized condition for BD is thus settled to 20 mol% BD, 2 equivalents of MVK in acetonitrile for 6 days at room temperature (entry 7). BNO (10~20 mol%) alone in acetonitrile resulted in >5% of yield (entries 9,10).
This is the first report about using BD as a catalyst in an asymmetric MBH reaction. Stereochemical outcome can be explained in the proposed mechanism as shown in Scheme 3. BD formed the ternary complex (transition state A) with diol by Michael addition to the α,β-unsaturated carbonyl 5 and hydrogen bonded with the carbonyl groups of aromatic aldehyde 6a. The coupling between enone and aldehyde induced the formation of the chiral MBH adduct 7R. Due to the bulky structure of BD, the other side attack is less favored.
To speed up the reaction rate, cooperation of BD with a co-catalyst BNO was evaluated. As shown in Scheme 4, a co-catalytic mechanism was proposed. First, this dual catalytic system could be initiated by conjugating the vicinal diol of BD to the carbonyl group of the aromatic aldehyde and vinyl ketone through hydrogen bonding, respectively. Second, the N-oxide of BNO acts as a nucleophile to activate vinyl ketone for coupling with the carbonyl of aldehyde through an intramolecular carbonyl ene reaction. Finally, the breakdown of the dual catalytic system caused the formation of the MBH adduct. The interaction of the asymmetric plane of BD with BNO could promote the chirality of the product.
Unfortunately, the proposed mechanism in Scheme 4 was not validated by the experimental data. The co-catalytic system was evaluated and is shown in Table 2. Compared to BD alone (Table 1, entry 8), adding 20 mol% of BNO had no effect on ee value and yield (Table 2, entry 1). As the amount of BD/BNO were further increased (25/50%), an improvement to 67% yield was observed but the ee value reduced to 54% (Table 2, entry 2).
Interestingly, the yield increased up to 74% when increasing the mol% of BNO, but there was no effect on the ee values (entries 3–6). Finally, with 20 mol% of BD [21] and 100 mol% of BNO in acetonitrile using 4 equivalents of MVK, 74% yield and 70% ee value (entry 7) was reached. The activity was also compared with catalyst mixtures of other N-oxide, such as pyridine N-oxide (PNO) and morpholine N-oxide with BD. These catalytic mixtures gave only 17% of yield and the duration was too long (entry 8). Therefore, N-oxides are clearly less involved in the activation of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones. This clearly reveals that the BNO is not responsible for either acylation of the rate or chiral induction. Cooperative effect between BD and BNO was not observed as Scheme 4. BNO simply increased the chiral concentration in the solution to promote the yield and ee value.
Substrate scope was evaluated with this combination by changing the Michael acceptors and substituted aromatic aldehyde as shown in Table 3. The co-catalytic system provided moderate to good yields (up to 74%) and ee values (up to 78%) using optimal reaction condition. Generally, acyclic esters are less reactive but in this case hydroxyl substituted acrylate (3-hydroxyphenyl acrylate) provided b in moderated yield and ee value (Table 3, entry 2). Reaction of cyclohexenone with 4-nitrobenzaldehyde provided 7c in 78% of ee value and 54% of yield. A simple phenyl aldehyde gave 7d in 61% of yield and 55% of ee value (entry 4), which is relatively less than 4-nitro-substituted aromatic aldehyde with MVK (Table 3, entry 1). The results showed the cyclic enone could be better candidate for the Michael acceptors which provided 78% of ee value (entry 3). This is probably due to the effective binding of cyclic enone with BD [38].
However, we were pleased to find that BD combined with BNO in view of increasing the chiral concentration in the solution to give the allyl alcohol 7a–d in 4 days and provided moderate yield and ee value. This is important because there is no report about using BD as a catalyst in asymmetric MBH reactions. BD was reported previously only for asymmetric Henry reaction with copper (Ⅰ) salt [20]. The absolute configuration of the products was assigned as R0-based on a correlation with known compounds [39,41,42].

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. General Information

All solvents were commercially available grade unless otherwise stated. The aldehydes, MVK and 3-hydroxylphenyl acrylate were used as purchased. The products were purified by neutral column chromatography on 70–230 or 230–400 mesh silica gels. Spectra obtained were 1H NMR and 13C NMR from 400 and 100.6 MHz NMR spectrometer, respectively (Supplementary Materials). Chemical shifts (δ) are reported in parts per million (ppm) from residual solvent resonance as the internal standard. Coupling constants are reported in Hertz (Hz) and the multiplicities are indicated as br = broad, s = singlet, d = doublet, dd = doublet of doublet, t = triplet, m = multiple. Enantiomeric excesses were determined using chiral high performance liquid chromatography. IR spectra were obtained from a Jasco FT/IR-480 Plus instrument using KBr disks. Elemental analysis (EA) was obtained from ThermoQuest (Flash 1112EA, ITALY).

3.2. General Procedure 1: MBH Reaction with Single Catalytic Processes

Catalysts BNO and BD (0.25 mmol) were used. In a screw caped vial, a single catalyst (0.25 mmol) in 0.2 mL of given solvent, 4-nitrobenzaldehyde and MVK (given equivalent) were mixed at room temperature. The resulting solution was stirred at room temperature for 6–8 days. The reaction was monitored by TLC. After completion, the mixture was diluted with ethyl acetate (1 mL) and concentrated under reduced pressure. The resultant crude was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (hexanes/EtOAc, 90:10) to provide allylic alcohol 7a.

3.3. General Procedure 2: MBH Reaction with BD and BNO Co-Catalytic Processes

Catalytic mixtures BD/BNO (0.25 mmol (total molar ratio)) were dispersed in 0.2 mL of given solvent. The semi-homogeneous solution was stirred for 10 min, the corresponding aldehyde (0.25 mmol) and methyl vinyl ketone (given equivalent) or acrylate (4 equiv) was added. The resulting solution was stirred at room temperature. Completion of the reaction was monitored by TLC. After the indicated reaction time, ethyl acetate (1 mL) was added, and the extracts were easily separated by applying a separating funnel. The extracts were combined and concentrated. Further purified by column chromatography on silica gel (hexanes/EtOAc, 90:10) provided corresponding allylic alcohol.

3.4. 3-Hydroxyphenyl 2-(hydroxy(4-nitrophenyl)methyl)acrylate (7b)

Brownish oil: 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.49 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.29 (d, J = 8.0 Hz, 2H), 7.18 (t, J = 8.0 Hz, 1H), 6.60–6.55 (m, 3H), 6.47 (s, 1H), 6.05 (s, 1H), 5.62 (s, 1H): 13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3) δ 164.7, 156.6, 151.1, 141.3, 139.9, 131.7, 130.2, 128.2, 122.1, 113.5, 113.4, 109.1, 72.5.

4. Conclusions

We studied in detail the comparative catalytic efficiency by single and combined catalytic systems using BNO and BD in an MBH reaction. In a process with a single catalyst, BD (20 mol%) gave respective MBH adduct of 7a in moderate yield and ee value (59%). In a co-catalytic system, the mixture of BD/BNO provided better results. MBH adducts were achieved up to 74% yield and 78% ee value. In this asymmetric reaction, chiral induction was mainly due to tertaryamino-1,2-diol of BD which activated the carbonyl group through hydrogen bonding. The BD/BNO cooperative catalytic system provides rate enhancement which may be due to increasing the chiral concentration in the solution by BNO in the mixture.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/11/2/237/s1, Figure S1: 1H NMR of BD. Figure S2: 13C NMR of BD. Figure S3: LRMS of BD. Figure S1. 1H NMR of BD. Figure S4: 1HNMR of compound 7a. Figure S5: 1H NMR of compound 7b. Figure S6: 13C NMR of compound 7b. Figure S7: HPLC of compound 7a (racemic). Figure S8: HPLC of compound 7a. Figure S9: HPLC of compound 7b.

Author Contributions

V.A. and D.-F.T. designed the experiments and wrote the manuscript; D.-F.T. Supervised study; V.A. performed the experiments; V.A., D.-F.T., C.-H.L. contributed to scientific discussions. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was funded by Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology grant number [NSC100-2622-M-259-001-CC2].

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Acknowledgments

We thank Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology for providing the financial support (NSC100-2622-M-259-001-CC2).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Catalysts 11 00237 sch001 550
Scheme 1. Brucine derivatives in asymmetric synthesis.
Scheme 1. Brucine derivatives in asymmetric synthesis.
Catalysts 11 00237 sch001
Catalysts 11 00237 sch002 550
Scheme 2. Proposed type IV mechanism: a tertiary aminol catalyzed Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) reaction.
Scheme 2. Proposed type IV mechanism: a tertiary aminol catalyzed Morita–Baylis–Hillman (MBH) reaction.
Catalysts 11 00237 sch002
Catalysts 11 00237 sch003 550
Scheme 3. Proposed mechanism of BD catalyzed MBH reaction.
Scheme 3. Proposed mechanism of BD catalyzed MBH reaction.
Catalysts 11 00237 sch003
Catalysts 11 00237 sch004 550
Scheme 4. Proposed catalytic cycle for BD catalyzed MBH reaction with BNO.
Scheme 4. Proposed catalytic cycle for BD catalyzed MBH reaction with BNO.
Catalysts 11 00237 sch004
Table
Table 1. Asymmetric MBH reaction with catalyst brucine N-oxide (BNO) and brucine diol (BD) [a].
Table 1. Asymmetric MBH reaction with catalyst brucine N-oxide (BNO) and brucine diol (BD) [a].
Catalysts 11 00237 i001
EntryCatalystMol%5Solvent [b]Time [days]Yield [c]Ee [d]
[Equiv][Vol][%][%]
1BD52DCM62223
2BD52DCE62127
3BD52iPrOH63123
3BD52Toluene62327
4BD102Ethanol63034
5BD1021,4-dioxane64344
6BD202Acetonitrile66159
7BD302Acetonitrile66953
8BNO1010Acetonitrile10>510
9BNO2010Acetonitrile10>519
[a] Reaction conditions are as follows: all reactions were carried out in 5 mL screw capped bottle, 4-nitrobenzaldehyde (0.25 mmol). [b] Solvents used without drying. [c] Isolated yield. [d] Determined by chiral High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Table
Table 2. Asymmetric MBH reaction with duel catalytic system [a].
Table 2. Asymmetric MBH reaction with duel catalytic system [a].
Catalysts 11 00237 i002
EntryCat.15Cat. 2Time [days]Yield [b]Ee [c] [%]
[Mol %][Equiv][Mol %][%]
1BD [20]2BNO [20]66059
2BD [25]2BNO [50]66754
3BD [25]4BNO [60]46956
4BD [25]4BNO [70]47154
5BD [25]4BNO [80]47255
6BD [25]4BNO [100]47457
7BD [20]4BNO [100]47470
8BD [20]4PNO [100]817-
[a] Reaction condition: all reactions were carried out in 5 mL screw capped bottle, 4-nitrobenzaldehyde (0.25 mmol). [b] Isolated yield. [c] Determined by chiral HPLC.
Table
Table 3. Substrate scope with co-catalytic system for MBH reaction [a].
Table 3. Substrate scope with co-catalytic system for MBH reaction [a].
Catalysts 11 00237 i003
Entry.ProductAr in RCHOEnone Time [h]Yield [b]Ee [c]Ref.
1 Catalysts 11 00237 i004
Catalysts 11 00237 i005		3-NO2C6H4R1 = CH3967470[39]
23-NO2C6H4R1 = Catalysts 11 00237 i006965861-
3 Catalysts 11 00237 i0073-OCH3C6H4 Catalysts 11 00237 i008965478[40,41]
4 Catalysts 11 00237 i009C6H5R1 = CH3966155[39]
[a] Reaction condition: all reactions were carried out in 5 mL screw capped bottle, 4-nitrobenzaldehyde (0.25 mmol). [b] Isolated yield. [c] Determined by chiral HPLC by following reference given in table.
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