Majority‐Rules‐Type Helical Poly(quinoxaline‐2,3‐diyl)s as Highly Efficient Chirality‐Amplification Systems for Asymmetric Catalysis

A highly efficient majority-rules effect of poly(quinoxaline-2,3-diyl)s (PQXs) bearing 2-butoxymethyl chiral side chains at the 6- and 7-positions was established and attributed to large ΔG(h) values (0.22-0.41 kJ mol(-1)), which are defined as the energy difference between P- and M-helical conformations per chiral unit. A PQX copolymer prepared from a monomer derived from (R)-2-octanol (23% ee) and a monomer bearing a PPh2 group adopted a single-handed helical structure (>99%) and could be used as a highly enantioselective chiral ligand in palladium-catalyzed asymmetric reactions (products formed with up to 94% ee), in which the enantioselectivity could be switched by solvent-dependent inversion of the helical PQX backbone.