Computational Study of the Factors Controlling Enantioselectivity in Ruthenium(II) Hydrogenation Catalysts
- 5 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Inorganic Chemistry
- Vol. 47 (7), 2674-2687
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ic701981v
Abstract
The reduction of prochiral ketones catalyzed by Ru(diphosphine)(diamine) complexes has been studied at the DFT-PBE level of theory. Calculations have been conducted on real size systems [trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-xylbinap) + acetophenone], [trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-tolbinap) + acetophenone] and [trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-xylbinap) + cyclohexyl methyl ketone] with the aim of identifying the factors controlling the enantioselectivity in Ru(diphosphine)(diamine) catalysts. The high enantiomeric excess (99%) in the hydrogenation of acetophenone catalyzed by trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-xylbinap) has been explained in terms of the existence of a stable intermediate along the reaction pathway associated with the (R)-alcohol. The formation of this intermediate is hindered with the competitive pathways, which consequently increases the activation energy for the hydrogen transfer acetophenone/(S)-phenylethanol reaction. For the [trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-tolbinap) + acetophenone] system, the lower enantioselectivity (i.e. 80%) is rationalized by the smaller differences in the activation energy between the competitive pathways which differentiate between the two diastereomeric approaches of the prochiral ketone. The DFT-PBE results suggest that this reaction is driven to the (R)-product only by the process of binding the acetophenone to the active site of the trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-tolbinap) catalyst. For the hydrogenation of cyclohexyl methyl ketone catalyzed by trans-Ru(H)2(S,S-dpen)(S-xylbinap), the low performance in the enantioselective hydrogenation of the dialkyl ketone (i.e. 37%) is again explained by the small differences in the activation and binding energies which are the factors which could effectively differentiate between the two alkyl groups.Keywords
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