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the past decades, transition‐metal catalysis has emerged as a powerful tool for the construction of complex molecules. Also, rigid and strained chiral scaffolds have been synthesized in a straightforward manner under catalytic routines. Across these molecules, spirocompounds represent an important structural family with diverse and specific biological activity. In the following pages, it will be demonstrated how transition metals have overcome the synthetic issues connected to the assembly of the rigid all‐substituted quaternary sprirocenter. Drawbacks of some transition‐metal‐based catalytic systems remain the relatively low stability under aerobic conditions, while the most recent transformations have found important applications in concert with organocatalytic approaches. The section has been divided into three subcategories according to the involved reactions: [3+2] cycloaddition, [4+2] cycloaddition, and miscellaneous reactions.

      3.2.1 Organometallic [3+2] Cycloaddition Strategies to Construct Spiro Compounds

      Mechanistically, NaBArF played a dual role in the process, primarily is responsible to generating a cationic scandium complex and secondly is stabilizing the β‐silyl carbocation 5. Remarkably, this transformation represents the first example of a [3+2] annulation process involving allylsilanes and unsaturated carbonyl compounds to furnish chiral cyclopentanes in high yields (73–99%) and good to excellent stereocontrol (6 : 1–>20 : 1 dr and 64–99% ee).

Schematic illustration of a chemical reaction depicting scandium-catalyzed enantioselective carboannulation between alkylidene oxindole and allylsilanes.

      Source: Modified from Ball‐Jones et al. [8].

Schematic illustration of a chemical reaction depicting copper-catalyzed asymmetric [3+2] cycloaddition between alkylidene oxindole and imino esters.

      Source: Modified from Arai et al. [9].

      Later on, the authors extended the application of their catalytic system (using a different ligand) to the 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides to 5‐alkylidene thiazolidine‐2,4‐diones for the synthesis of spirocyclic pyrrolidine‐thiazolidinediones [12].

Schematic illustration of a chemical reaction depicting copper-catalyzed asymmetric construction of dispiropyrrolidine skeletons via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between azomethine ylides and alpha-alkylidene succinimides.

      Source: Modified from Yang et al. [11].

      A weak positive nonlinear effect was observed between the enantiomeric excess of the product 36 and the chiral ligand 34. Hence, the authors suggest the presence of both monomeric and oligomeric catalytic species in the reaction medium, with the monomeric complex being more active. Subsequently, an asymmetric [3+2] cycloaddition of methyleneindolinones with nitrones was also reported by the same authors using the combination of chiral N,N′‐dioxide ligand and Co(BF4)2·H2O to synthesize spirooxindole derivatives in good yield and excellent diastereo‐ and enantiocontrol [14].

Schematic illustration of a chemical reaction depicting magnesium-catalyzed asymmetric [3+2] cycloaddition between methyleneindolinones and N,N′-cyclic azomethine imines. Schematic illustration of a chemical reaction depicting rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective [3+2] annulation to form spirocyclic sultams.