are employed, affording a >10:1 preference for 5-A (eq 4).10'11In contrast, the Rh(PPh})}Cl-catalyzed hydroboration of 1,1disubstituted allylic alcohol derivatives also takes place with high levels of stereoselectivity but in the complementary sense to that observed with dialkyIboranes with the major product being the syn diastereomer 5-S. The related hydroboration illustrated in eq 5 illustrates the potential utility of these complementary reactions in the synthesis of polypropionate-derived natural products.12 Although space limitations preclude the presentation of the analogous data for other catalysts, we have found the cationic catalyst, [Rh(nbd)(diphos-4)]BF4, to be decidedly less regio-and diastereoselective than Rh(PPh3)3Cl. Collectively, these experiments suggest that the catalyzed and uncatalyzed reactions may well have different product-determining steps, and deuteriumlabeling experiments to be described at a later date support this position.
The crystal structure of di(1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)hexafluorocyclopentene) rhodium(I) cis-dicarbonyldichlororhodate(I), [Rh(f6fos)2][cis-Rh(CO)2Cl2] has been determined from three-dimensional X-ray scintillation counter data. The structure has been refined by full-matrix least-squares techniques to a conventional R factor of 8.8%. The salt crystallizes in the tetragonal space group I41/a with eight formula units in a cell of dimensions a = 17.722(1) Å and c = 36.773(4) Å. Each ion is nearly square planar and has a crystallographic two-fold axis passing through the rhodium atom. The two independent Rh—P distances are 2.282(6) and 2.300(6) Å, and the bite of the chelating ditertiary phosphine, f6fos, is 3.111(8) Å as measured by the intra-ligand P—P distance.
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