Bisdiamidophosphite with a bisoxazoline moiety in palladium-catalyzed enantioselective allylation

Abstract

A bisdiamidophosphite ligand with stereogenic phosphorus atoms as a part of 1,3,2-diaza-phospholidine rings and a bisoxazoline backbone was synthesized and studied in the Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution. The use of this ligand provided up to 93% ee in the alkylation of (E)-1,3-diphenylallyl acetate with dimethyl malonate and up to 77% ee in the amination with pyrrolidine at quantitative conversion of the starting substrate.