Acyloxazolidinone

Evans and co-workers investigated the effect of a number of -symmetric bis(oxazoline) ligands on the copper(II)-catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of an N-acyloxazolidinone with cyclopentadiene. Enantiomeric excesses of up to 99% have been reported (Scheme 3.4). Evans et al." suggested transition state assembly 3.7, with a square planar coordination environment around the central copper ion. In this scheme the dienophile should be coordinated predominantly in an cisoid fashion in... 

Recently Desimoni et used the same bis(oxazoline) ligand in the magnesium(II) catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of the N-acyloxazolidinone depicted in Scheme 3.4. In dichloromethane a modest preference was observed for the formation of the S-enantiomer. Interestingly, upon addition of two equivalents of water, the R-enantiomer was obtained in excess. This remarkable observation was interpreted in terms of a change from tetrahedral to octahedral coordination upon the introduction of the strongly coordinating water molecules. 

Excellent stereoselectivity is attained with the optically active boron enolate 7, prepared from the corresponding A-acyloxazolidinone (see Appendix) and diethylboron trifluoromethanesul-fonate177. The reaction presumably proceeds via a transition state similar to 5. 

More recently, the Lewis acid promoted asymmetric 1,4-addition of trimethyl(2-propenyl)silane to chiral a,/ -unsaturated /V-acylamides has been published33. Lewis acid mediated reactions of trimethyl(2-propenyl)silanes with a,/I-unsatu rated AT-acyloxazolidinones or iV-enoylsultams show high chemical yield with good diastereomeric excess. The absolute configuration of the new asymmetric center is controlled by the nature of the Lewis acid used. 

Scheme 10.83 Mg-catalysed aminations of Y-acyloxazolidinones with bis(sulfona-mides) ligand.

We will see in Section 1.2.6 that the enolates of imides are very useful in synthesis. Particularly important are the enolates of chiral IV-acyloxazolidinones. 

Enantioselective enolate alkylation can be done using chiral auxiliaries. (See Section 2.6 of Part A to review the role of chiral auxiliaries in control of reaction stereochemistry.) The most frequently used are the A-acyloxazolidinones.89 The 4-isopropyl and 4-benzyl derivatives, which can be obtained from valine and phenylalanine, respectively, and the c -4-methyl-5-phenyl derivatives are readily available. Another useful auxiliary is the 4-phenyl derivative.90... 

Scheme 1.9 gives some examples of diastereoselective enolate alkylations. Entries 1 to 6 show the use of various IV-acyloxazolidinones and demonstrate the... 

Among the most useful carbonyl derivatives are (V-acyloxazolidinones, and as we shall see in Section 2.3.4, they provide facial selectivity in aldol addition reactions. l,3-Thiazoline-2-thiones constitute another useful type of chiral auxiliary, and they can be used in conjunction with Bu2B03SCF3,44 Sn(03SCF3)2,45 or TiCl446 for generation of enolates. The stereoselectivity of the reactions is consistent with formation of a Z-enolate and reaction through a cyclic TS. 

Titanium enolates also can be prepared from /V-acyloxazolidinones. These Z-enolates, which are chelated with the oxazolidinone carbonyl oxygen,128 show syn stereoselectivity, and the oxazolidinone substituent exerts facial selectivity. 

Stereochemical Control Through Reaction Conditions. In the early 1990s it was found that the stereochemistry of reactions of boron enolates of N-acyloxazolidinones can be altered by using a Lewis acid complex of the aldehyde or an excess of the Lewis acid. These reactions are considered to take place through an open TS, with the stereoselectivity dependent on the steric demands of the Lewis acid. With various aldehydes, TiCl4 gave a syn isomer, whereas the reaction was... 

As is the case for aldol addition, chiral auxiliaries and catalysts can be used to control stereoselectivity in conjugate addition reactions. Oxazolidinone chiral auxiliaries have been used in both the nucleophilic and electrophilic components under Lewis acid-catalyzed conditions. (V-Acyloxazolidinones can be converted to nucleophilic titanium enolates with TiCl3(0-/-Pr).320... 

Simple acyclic a,/ -unsaturated esters are not reactive in the conjugate addition of dialkylzincs. In contrast, nitro-substituted unsaturated esters68 and malonates69 are applicable for this reaction. Using peptide-based chiral phosphine 66, Hird and Hoveyda realized the Cu-catalyzed conjugate addition of Et2Zn to iV-acyloxazolidinones with excellent enantioselectivity (Scheme 21).70... 

The asymmetric synthesis of / -branched carboxylic acid derivatives was accomplished by conjugate addition of mixed organoaluminum reagents to optically active Arabinose-derived c -unsaturated A-acyloxazolidinones (Scheme 47). Efficient stereocontrol was achieved using different optically active bicyclic oxazolidinones, yielding (.R)- or ( -configured / -branched carboxylic acid derivatives.136a... 

Chiral a,/ -unsaturated A-acyloxazolidinones have been regarded as a complement for type I dienophile reagents. Evans et al.4 reported a Diels-Alder reaction promoted by dialkyl aluminum chloride. In this reaction, chiral a,/ -unsaturated A-acyloxazolidinones were used as highly reactive and diaster-eoselective dienophiles. The stereogenic outcome of the Diels-Alder adducts... 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Unlike methyl crotonate, which is a weak dienophile, chiral (E)-crotonyl oxazolidinones when activated by a dialkylaluminum chloride (1 equiv.) are highly reactive and diastereoselective dienophiles. For this purpose, the unsaturated imides formed from oxazolidinones (Xp) derived from (S)-phenylalanol show consistently higher diastereoselectivity than those derived from (S)-valinol or (IS, 2R)-norephedrine. The effect of the phenyl group is attributed in part at least to an electronic interaction of the aromatic ring. The reactions of the unsaturated imide 1 shown in equation (I) are typical of reactions of unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones with cyclic and acyclic dienes. All the Diels-Alder reactions show almost complete endo-selectivity and high diastereoselectivity. Oxazolidinones are useful chiral auxiliaries for intramolecular Diels-Alder... 

Silyl enol ethers have also been used as a trap for electrophilic radicals derived from a-haloesters [36] or perfluoroalkyl iodides [32]. They afford the a-alkylated ketones after acidic treatment of the intermediate silyl enol ethers (Scheme 19, Eq. 19a). Similarly, silyl ketene acetals are converted into o -pcriluoroalkyl esters upon treatment with per fluoro alkyl iodides [32, 47]. The Et3B/02-mediated diastereoselective trifluoromethylation [48,49] (Eq. 19b) and (ethoxycarbonyl)difluoromethylation [50,51] of lithium eno-lates derived from N-acyloxazolidinones have also been achieved. More recently, Mikami [52] succeeded in the trifluoromethylation of ketone enolates... 

Acyloxazolidinones of acyclic dicarboxylic acids can be used in the stereoselective synthesis of y-butyrolactones, which has been applied to one of the shortest syntheses of (-)-roccellaric acid (1) reported to date (Scheme 16) [49]. 

Treatment of V-acyloxazolidinone 122 with hydroxylamines using samarium triflate as a Lewis acid gives the corresponding hydroxamic acids 123 in 50-98% yields at room temperature (Scheme 61). The conversion proceeds with a high degree of chemoselectivity and without racemization of chiral centers at the a-position to the acyl group. 

Among the early attempts of amination of lithium and copper enolates were those which involved formation of a-A-(Boc)- or A-(Alloc)amino-substituted carboxylic esters, A-acyloxazolidinones and diethyl phosphonates (Scheme 33) ° . a-Lithum or a-copper derivatives of these enolates were aminated using A-lithium derivatives of A-Alloc O-(mesitylenesulfonyl)hydroxylamine 3j, NHBocOTos 31 and NHAllocOTos 3m. 

Titanium enolates can also be prepared from /V-acyloxazolidinones. These enolates... 

The MgX2/R3N systems offer another useful synthetic interest. Recently, Evans and coworkers have demonstrated that substoichiometric amounts of magnesium halides in the presence of an amine and chlorotrimethylsilane catalyze the direct aldol reaction of A-acyloxazolidinones and A-acylthiazolidininethiones with high diastereoselectivity (equation 59). 

Recently, Evans has reported diastereoselective magnesium hahde-catalyzed anti-aldol reactions of chiral Af-acyloxazolidinones 88 (equation 115) and A-acylthiazolidine-thiones 90 (equation 116) . ... 

Although iV-acyloxazolidinones 88 and iV-acylthiazolidinethiones 90 lead to an anti aldol, the respective products 89 and 91 present a different anti configuration. Consequently, the corresponding derived magnesium enolates exhibit the opposite face selection in these reactions. On the basis of previous results involving enolates of various metal complexes such as boron, titanium, lithium or sodium enolates, the (Z)-metal enolate... 

---