@article{KarrasDabrowskiPohletal.2018, author = {Karras, Manfred and Dabrowski, Michal and Pohl, Radek and Rybacek, Jiri and Vacek, Jaroslav and Bednarova, Lucie and Grela, Karol and Stary, Ivo and Stara, Irena G. and Schmidt, Bernd}, title = {Helicenes as Chirality-Inducing Groups in Transition-Metal Catalysis}, series = {Chemistry - a European journal}, volume = {24}, journal = {Chemistry - a European journal}, number = {43}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {0947-6539}, doi = {10.1002/chem.201802786}, pages = {10994 -- 10998}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Helical chirality is a novel enantioselectivity-inducing property in transition-metal-catalyzed transformations. The principle is illustrated herein for the example of asymmetric olefin metathesis. This work reports the synthesis of the first helically chiral Ru-NHC alkylidene complex from an aminohelicene-derived imidazolium salt, which was ligated to the first generation Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst. Kinetic data were acquired for benchmark test reactions and compared to an achiral catalyst. The helically chiral Ru-catalyst was evaluated in asymmetric ring-closing metathesis (RCM) and ring-opening metathesis-cross-metathesis (ROM/CM) reactions, which proceeded with promising levels of enantioselectivity. Extensive NMR-spectroscopic investigations and a DFT geometry optimization were performed. These results led to a topographic steric map and calculation of percent-buried-volume values for each quadrant around the metal center.}, language = {en} }