Monohalogénocyclopropanations stéréosélectives à l'aide de carbénoïdes de zinc, couplages croisés de cyclopropylsilanols, cyclisations d'iodures d'alkyle catalysées par le nickel
Cyclopropanes are important subunits because of their presence in numerous bioactive natural products and synthetic molecules as well as synthetic intermediates. In this work we have investigated the stereoselective halocyclopropanation of allylic alcohols using a dioxaborolane-type stoichiometric chiral ligand and substituted zinc carbenoids derived from organozinc compounds and haloforms. We have thus developed conditions for the stereoselective iodo-, chloro- and fluorocyclopropanation reactions. A mechanistic study on the nature of alpha-chloro and alpha-bromomethylzinc carbenoids has revealed that halogen scrambling is taking place in the case of these carbenoids. During the chlorocyclopropanation reaction, the most reactive carbenoid (alpha-chloromethyl zinc) reacts predominantly, in line with the Curtin-Hammet principle. The enantioenriched iodocyclopropanes have been functionalized through a lithium-iodine exchange followed by treatment with electrophiles or transmetallation to zinc and Negishi cross-coupling. Therefore, a wide array of enantioenriched 1,2,3-substituted cyclopropanes have been synthesized using these methods.    In order to develop new methodologies for the functionalization of cyclopropanes, we have studied the Hiyama-Denmark cross-coupling of cyclopropylsilanols. In this approach, the silanol group bears two functions: it serves as a proximal basic group in the Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation and it is involved in the transmetallation event during the cross-coupling reaction. In the cross-coupling step, the nature of the ligands bound to the silicon atom is crucial to the efficiency of the reaction. Hence, the in situ formation of the cyclopropyltrifluorosilane via a ligand exchange with boron trifluoride etherate is required for good yields.    The final chapter of this work is on the nickel-catalyzed cyclization of alkyl iodides via a homolytic aromatic substitution mechanism. A series of tetrahydronaphthalene and thiochroman related compounds have been synthesized using this methodology. A mechanistic study has confirmed the radical nature of this reaction and strongly suggests the catalytic role of nickel. DOSY NMR spectrometric investigations have demonstrated an association between substrate, the base employed in this reaction and the nickel complex.
Stereoselective halocyclopropanation Simmons-Smith reaction Zinc carbenoids Asymmetric synthesis Cyclopropylsilanols Hiyama-Denmark cross-coupling Alkyl iodide cyclization Nickel catalysis Homolytic aromatic substitution