Recent advances in cooperative bimetallic asymmetric catalysis: dinuclear Schiff base complexes

Cooperative catalysis has proven to be a powerful strategy for realizing high reactivity and selectivity in asymmetric transformations. A variety of cooperative asymmetric catalysts have been developed over the last two decades. In this feature article, recent advances from our research on cooperati...

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Published inChemical communications (Cambridge, England) Vol. 5; no. 9; pp. 144 - 157
Main Authors Matsunaga, Shigeki, Shibasaki, Masakatsu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.01.2014
Subjects
Asymmetry
Bimetals
Catalysis
Catalysts
Focusing
Metals - chemistry
Protons
Schiff bases
Schiff Bases - chemistry
Stereoisomerism
Strategy
Transformations
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Summary:Cooperative catalysis has proven to be a powerful strategy for realizing high reactivity and selectivity in asymmetric transformations. A variety of cooperative asymmetric catalysts have been developed over the last two decades. In this feature article, recent advances from our research on cooperative asymmetric catalysis, focusing on dinuclear Schiff base catalysis, are described. Design of dinuclear Schiff base catalysts and their applications in several asymmetric C-C and C-N bond-forming reactions under simple proton transfer conditions with perfect atom-economy are discussed in detail. Recent advances in cooperative bimetallic asymmetric catalysis, focusing on the design and applications of dinuclear Schiff base catalysts, are introduced.
Bibliography:Shigeki Matsunaga is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo. He was born in 1975, and received his PhD from the University of Tokyo under the direction of professor M. Shibasaki. He started his academic career in 2001 as an assistant professor in professor Shibasaki's lab. He was promoted to a senior lecturer in 2008, and to his current position in 2011. He is the recipient of the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (2006), Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award of Encouragement (2009), Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award 2010, and others. His research interests are in cooperative asymmetric catalysis, C-H bond functionalization, and synthesis of biologically active compounds.
Masakatsu Shibasaki received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1974 under the direction of the late professor Shun-ichi Yamada before conducting postdoctoral studies with Professor E. J. Corey at Harvard University. In 1977, he returned to Japan and joined Teikyo University as an associate professor. In 1983, he moved to Sagami Chemical Research Center as a group leader, and in 1986 took up a professorship at Hokkaido University, before returning to the University of Tokyo as a professor in 1991. Currently, he is a director of the Institute of Microbial Chemistry (Tokyo). His research interests include asymmetric catalysis and medicinal chemistry of biologically significant compounds.
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ISSN:1359-7345
1364-548X
DOI:10.1039/c3cc47587e