This review collects the very recent developments in enantioselective metal-catalyzed domino reactions published since the beginning of 2016. It illustrates that many types of enantioselective metal-catalyzed domino processes continue to be developed, allowing an easy one-pot access to complex molecular architectures from simple starting materials taking economic advantages, such as avoiding costly protecting groups and timeconsuming purification procedures after each step. 1 Introduction 2 Enantioselective Silver-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 3 Enantioselective Scandium-and Yttrium-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 4 Enantioselective Iron-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 5 Enantioselective Cobalt-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 6 Enantioselective Magnesium-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 7 Enantioselective Zirconium-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 8 Enantioselective Rhodium-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 9 Enantioselective Palladium-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 10 Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Domino Reactions 11 Enantioselective Domino Reactions Catalyzed with Other Metals 12 Conclusions
IntroductionAsymmetric metal catalysis constitutes a powerful tool to highly enantioselectively perform many types of reactions. [1] In particular, the combination of asymmetric metal catalysis with the concept of domino reactions has allowed high molecular complexity to be easily achieved with remarkable levels of stereocontrol on the basis of simple economic one-pot procedures. In the last decade, many types of enantioselective domino processes, including multicomponent ones, [2] have been successfully catalyzed by a wide variety of chiral metal complexes. [3] Introduced by Tietze, the concept of domino reactions consists in one-step two or more bond-forming transformations occurring under the same reaction conditions. [4] A range of complex densely functionalized chiral molecules, including natural and/or biologically important products, have already been synthesized through these processes without requiring the purification of intermediates. [5] The goal of this review is to collect the very recent advances in enantioselective metal-catalyzed domino reactions published since the beginning of 2016 since this field was most recently updated this year, covering the literature until the end of 2015 (including only 2 references from 2016). [6] It is divided into ten parts, dealing successively with enantioselective silver-catalyzed domino reactions, scandium-and yttrium-catalyzed domino reactions, iron-catalyzed domino reactions, cobalt-catalyzed domino reactions, magnesium-catalyzed domino reactions, zirconium-catalyzed domino reactions, rhodium-catalyzed domino reactions, palladium-catalyzed domino reactions, copper-catalyzed domino reactions and enantioselective domino reactions catalyzed by other metals.
Enantioselective Silver-Catalyzed Domino ReactionsRelated to its moderate Lewis acidity, silver has long been neglected in catalysis. However, many highly efficient transformations, [7] including enantioselective domino reactions, [8] are today availabl...