The palladium-catalyzed Buchwald-Hartwig aryl amination between 2,2'-diaminobiphenyl and 2 equivof 2-(2'-bromophenyl)oxazoline has been used to prepare a new class of tetradentate bis(amino-oxazoline).The reaction between 2,2'-diaminobiphenyl and 1 equiv of 2-(2'-bromophenyl)oxazoline is highly selectivefor monoarylation, and the resulting products have been reacted in a second arylation to affordunsymmetrically substituted bis(amino-oxazolines). These new diamido/donors belong to the
tropos classof ligand and exist as an equilibrium mixture of
S,a
S,
S- and
S,a
R,
S-diastereoisomers, which interconvertby rotation about the biaryl axis. Variable-temperature
1H NMR studies and line-shape analysis of simulated spectra gave
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and
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values of 51.5-57
kJ mol
-1 and -25.9 to -57.0 J mol
-1 K
-1, respectively, for diastereointerconversion. Interestingly, reaction of one of the symmetrical bis(amino-oxazoline)with [Cu(MeCN)
4][PF
6] results in dynamic resolution to afford diastereopure (
S,a
S,
S)-[Cu(
L)][PF
6], whichhas a highly unusual sawhorse geometry at copper with the two oxazolines occupying
trans coordinationsites and two wea
k interactions to the nitrogen atoms of the secondary amino groups.
1H and
13C NMRspectra of this copper complex are entirely consistent with a single
C2-symmetric diastereoisomer insolution that shows no sign of diastereointerconversion even after standing for one wee
k.