Quantum chemical study on enantioselective reduction of keto oxime ether with borane catalyzed by oxazaborolidine. Part 1. Structures of catalyst-borane-keto oxime ether adducts
M. Li et al., Quantum chemical study on enantioselective reduction of keto oxime ether with borane catalyzed by oxazaborolidine. Part 1. Structures of catalyst-borane-keto oxime ether adducts, INT J QUANT, 81(4), 2001, pp. 291-304
In the present work, quantum chemical computations of the enantioselective
reduction of keto oxime ether with borane catalyzed by chiral oxazaborolidi
ne are performed by means of the Hartree-Fock and the density functional me
thods. The structures of oxazaborolidine, oxazaborolidine-borane adduct, an
d oxazaborolidine-borane-keto oxime ether adducts are optimized completely
at the HF/6-31g* and B3LYP/6-31g* levels and their properties studied in de
tail. The oxazaborolidine catalyst is a twisted chair structure and reacts
with borane at the nitrogen site of the catalyst to form the catalyst-boran
e adduct whose formation reaction is exothermic. The catalyst-borane adduct
reacts easily with keto oxime ether to form catalyst-borane-keto oxime eth
er adducts that have eight stable structures. The coordination of the carbo
nyl oxygen in keto oxime ether at the boron site of the catalyst is of more
advantage to the enantioselective reduction of keto oxime ether than the c
oordination of the oxime nitrogen in the keto oxime ether at the boron site
is. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.