Abstract
A preparatively straightforward methodology has been developed which allows the assembly of silicon-containing carbocycles as mixtures of diastereomers with silicon as the sole center of stereogenic information. One-step construction of the chiral cyclic silanes is realized by reaction of equimolar amounts of a dibromide and a chirally modified dichlorosilane under Barbier conditions giving access to several monofunctionalized 1-sila-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalenes and a corresponding phenanthrene derivative. Facile large scale syntheses of 3-(2-bromoaryl)propyl bromides as well as dichlorosilanes have been elaborated. This highly convergent methodology relies on the novel (-)-menthyl-oxy-substituted dichlorosilanes, which have the chiral auxiliary for the subsequent optical resolution installed. These enantiopure dichlorosilanes are useful building blocks for a general and modular one-step approach to silanes with silicon-centered chirality since this strategy avoids the linear sequences reported in literature. The optical resolution has been exemplarily optimized for the 1-phenyl-1-sila-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene derivative and the absolute configuration has been established by X-ray crystallography. The chiral auxiliary is stereospecifically displaced by simple reduction providing the highly enantioenriched silane (er = 98:2) which is enantiospecifically chlorinated as verified by a Walden inversion at silicon.
Key words
Grignard reactions - cyclizations - enantiomeric resolution - heterocycles - silicon
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