(4-Chlorophenyl){(
S)-2-[(
R)-1-(dimethylamino)ethyl]ferrocenyl}iodobismuthane(
3b), thefirst example of an optically pure bismuthane, was synthesized withexclusive stereoselectivity using Bi-N intramolecular coordination and the planar chiralityof ferrocene. Thevariable-temperature
1H NMR spectra measured in the rangefrom -50 to +50
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C in CDCl
3revealed that no epimerization takes place at the bismuth center.An X-ray crystallographicstudy demonstrated that the bismuth atom is diastereoselectivelyintroduced into thesubstituted cyclopentadienyl ring and that the 4-chlorophenyl groupoccupies the exo positiontoward the iron atom. The absolute configuration around thebismuth atom was determinedto be
R. The longer intramolecular Bi-N distance of
3b [2.71(1) Å] compared with those ofchloro{2-[(
R)-1-(dimethylamino)ethyl]phenyl}phenylbismuthane(
1a,
b) [2.55(2), 2.57(2)Å,respectively] indicates a weaker Bi-N coordination in the ferrocenesystem. The specificrotation of
3b, [
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D23 -546(
c 1.0, CHCl
3), is negatively much larger thanthat ofbis(4-chlorophenyl){(
S)-2-[(
R)-1-(dimethylamino)ethyl]ferrocenyl}bismuthane(
5b), [
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D23-330 (
c 1.0, CHCl
3), which is considered to bethe result of generation of the optically activecenter at bismuth.