Abstract
Under air-oxidation conditions, the reaction of [Co(α-Me-sal2en)] with L-aaH, where α-Me-sal2en represents the dianion of N,N′-ethylenebis(α-niethylsalicylideneaniine) and where L-aaH denotes L-proline, hydroxy-L-proline, or allo-hydroxy-L-proline, proceeded rapidly to yield Λ-cis2–[Co(α-Me-sal2en)(L-aa)] stereoselectively, followed by the slow isomerization of the Λ-cis2-isomer thus formed to give the corresponding Δ-cis2-isomer in a yield of almost 100% under equilibrium conditions. The complexes thus formed were isolated and characterized by the use of their absorption, circular dichroism, and 1H-NMR spectra. The preferential formation of the Λ-cis2-isomer in the initial reaction was found to be kinetic in origin. The kinetic stereoselectivity was determined to be 87% for L-proline, 56% for hydroxy-L-proline, and 23% for allo-hydroxy-L-proline by the measurement of the rotation at 435 nm of the reaction solutions. On the other hand, no kinetic differentiation was observed for the formation of the similar cis2-complexes with L-alanine, L-valine, L-methionine, L-phenylalanine, L-tryptophan, N-benzyl-L-alanine, and N-methyl-L-alanine. On the basis of these data, the mechanism of the initial complexation was discussed. The high thermodynamic stereoselectivity for Δ-cis2-isomer was explained in terms of the intramolecular steric interaction between the pyrrolidine ring of the coordinated L-aa and the distorted α-Me-sal2en ligand in the complex.

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