Acta Chimica Sinica ›› 2014, Vol. 72 ›› Issue (7): 778-797.DOI: 10.6023/A14050364 Previous Articles     Next Articles

Special Issue: 不对称催化与合成 纪念南开大学化学学科创建100周年

Review

神奇的手性螺环配体

谢建华, 周其林   

  1. 南开大学元素有机化学研究所 天津化学化工协同创新中心 天津 300071
  • 投稿日期:2014-05-08 发布日期:2014-06-05
  • 通讯作者: 谢建华, 周其林 E-mail:jhxie@nankai.edu.cn;qlzhou@nankai.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    项目受国家自然科学基金、国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)(No.2012CB821600)和教育部“111”引智计划(No.B06005)资助.

Magical Chiral Spiro Ligands

Xie Jianhua, Zhou Qilin   

  1. State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300071
  • Received:2014-05-08 Published:2014-06-05
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2012CB821600), and“111” Project of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. B06005).

Transition metal catalyzed asymmetric reaction is a hot issue and a frontier of the research in current organic chemistry. The design and synthesis of new type of efficient chiral ligands and chiral catalysts, esspecially those with novel skeleton is the focus of research in asymmetric catalysis. Since 1990's, chiral ligands based on spiro skeletons have received increasing attention and gradually developed into a new type of chiral ligands with distinctive characteristics. The skeletons of the chiral spiro ligands developed from spiro[4.4]nonane with three chiral stereocenters to spirobiindane and spiro[4.4]nonadiene with only one axial chirality, as well as other types of spiro skeletons. Nowadays, the library of chiral spiro ligands contains a wide range of chiral spiro ligands with different skeletons, including chiral spiro monophosphorus ligands, diphosphine ligands, phosphine-nitrogen ligands, dinitrogen ligands, and etc. Many of these chiral spiro ligands and related catalysts not only have shown high catalytic activity and high enantioselectivity for various asymmetric reactions such as asymmetric hydrogenations, asymmetric carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, and asymmetric carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions, but also have made the enantiocontrol of many catalytic asymmetric reactions, which are difficult in obtaining high enantioselectivities, more easily and possible. The chiral spiro skeleton has become a ‘privileged structure’, and chiral spiro ligands and catalysts have been used in the syntheses of different type of chiral compounds including chiral natural products and chiral drugs. The emergence of chiral spiro ligands increased the dynamism of research on finding new chiral ligands and catalysts, and promoted asymmetric synthesis chemistry. Henceforth, the focus of study in chiral spiro ligands will continue to be the development of new chiral spiro ligands and catalysts with high activity and high enantioselectivity. At the same time, the applications of chiral spiro ligands in the new catalytic asymmetric reactions, and in the asymmetric synthesis of bioactive chiral compounds, chiral natural products and chiral drugs will become a new focus of research.

Key words: spiro skeleton, chiral spiro ligand, chiral spiro catalyst, asymmetric catalysis, metal catalyst