Alcohols, 2-amino diastereoselective synthesis

The utilization of a-amino acids and their derived 6-araino alcohols in asymmetric synthesis has been extensive. A number of procedures have been reported for the reduction of a variety of amino acid derivatives however, the direct reduction of a-am1no acids with borane has proven to be exceptionally convenient for laboratory-scale reactions. These reductions characteristically proceed in high yield with no perceptible racemization. The resulting p-amino alcohols can, in turn, be transformed into oxazolidinones, which have proven to be versatile chiral auxiliaries. Besides the highly diastereoselective aldol addition reactions, enolates of N-acyl oxazolidinones have been used in conjunction with asymmetric alkylations, halogenations, hydroxylations, acylations, and azide transfer processes, all of which proceed with excellent levels of stereoselectivity. 

DIASTEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF PROTECTED VICINAL AMINO ALCOHOLS (S)-2-[(4S)-N-tert-BUTOXYCARBONYL-2,2-DIMETHYL-1,3-... 

A diastereoselective formal addition of a 7ra i-2-(phenylthio)vmyl moiety to a-hydroxyhydrazones through a radical pathway is shown in Scheme 2.29. To overcome the lack of a viable intermolecular vinyl radical addition to C=N double bonds, not to mention a reaction proceeding with stereocontrol, this procedure employs a temporary silicon tether, which is used to hold the alkyne unit in place so that the vinyl radical addition could proceed intramolecularly. Thus, intermolecular addition of PhS" to the alkyne moiety in the chiral alkyne 161 leads to vinyl radical 163, which cyclizes in a 5-exo fashion, according to the Beckwith-Houk predictions, to give aminyl radical 164 with an a 7z-arrangement between the ether and the amino group. Radical reduction and removal of the silicon tether without prior isolation of the end product of the radical cyclization cascade, 165, yields the a-amino alcohol 162. This strategy, which could also be applied to the diastereoselective synthesis of polyhydroxylated amines (not shown), can be considered as synthetic equivalent of an acetaldehyde Mannich reaction with acyclic stereocontrol. 

Since acidic hydrolysis would cleave both the heterocyclic rings, the method may potentially be applied to the auxiliary-induced diastereoselective synthesis of /i-amino alcohols, provided that the starting azido ethers are prepared optically pure from homochiral aldehydes. 

Moelm, D., Floerke, U., Risch, N. Fragmentation reactions of quatemized y-amino alcohols. Diastereoselective synthesis of highly functionalized oxetanes and unsaturated aldehydes and ketones with a (Z)-C C double bond. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 1998, 2185-2191. 

Scheme 17.18 Diastereoselective synthesis of amino alcohols via r2.S1-Wittig rearrangement including tetrahydroazepinones.

Azetidines are compounds of interest in the field of agricultural and pharmaceutical chemistry. They are also useful as monomers and cross-linkers in polymer industry. Due to ring strain associated with it, azetidines are also useful S5mthons in organic chemistry. The common methods for S5mthesis of azetidines are cyclizations of y-amino alcohols, y-amino halides, 3-amino allenes, reactions of 1,3-dielectrophiles with amines, metal-catalyzed cyclizations in diazocarbonyls, cycloaddition reactions, and reduction of 2-azetidinones. There are several reports in literature on the S5mthesis of azetidines in aqueous media. A diastereoselective synthesis of azetidines is reported by the reaction of azazirconacyclopentane derivatives with iodine followed by treatment with aqueous potassium carbonate [26]. 

We developed a new easy and versatile diastereoselective synthesis of these amino alcohols. Our synthetic plan was based on the ring opening of trifluoromethyl epoxy ethers 3, which are easily available in two steps from the cheap ethyl trifluoroacetate, and are useful building blocks. The first step, the Wittig olefination of this ester, is possible because of the increased electrophilicity of the ester carbonyl by the fluorinated moiety (Scheme... 

The transformation of the cyano group could also introduce a new chiral center under diastereoselective control (Figure 5.13). Grignard-transimination-reduction sequences have been employed in a synthesis of heterocyclic analogues of ephedrine [81]. The preferential formation of erythro-/3-amino alcohols may be explained by preferential hydride attack on the less-hindered face of the intermediate imine [82], and hydrocyanation of the imine would also appear to proceed via the same type of transition state. In the case of a,/3-unsaturated systems, reduction- transimination-reduction may be followed by protection of the /3-amino alcohol to an oxazolidinone, ozonolysis with oxidative workup, and alkali hydrolysis to give a-hydroxy-/3-amino acids [83]. This method has been successfully employed in the synthesis L-threo-sphingosine [84]. 

The diastereoselectivity of the reduction of a-substiluted ketones has been the subject of much investigation. The reagent combination of trifluoroacetic acid and dimethylphenylsilane is an effective method for the synthesis of erythro isomers of 2-amino alcohols, 1,2-diols, and 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid derivatives.86,87,276,375 Quite often the selectivity for formation of the erythro isomer over the threo isomer of a given pair is >99 1. Examples where high erythro preference is found in the products are shown below (Eqs. 218-220).276 Similar but complementary results are obtained with R3SiH/TBAF, where the threo isomer product... 

Albert S.C. Chun of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University reports (J. Org. Chem. 68 1589, 2003) two important transformations. The three-component (Mannich) condensation of 10 with 11 and 12 proceeds with high diastereoselectivity, to give the amino alcohol 13. Hydroboration of the alkyne 14 followed by transmetalation of the intermediate vinyl borane gives a zinc species, which under catalysis by the easily-prepared 3-naphthol 13 adds to aromatic and branched aldehydes with high . The product allylic alcohols are useful intermediates for organic synthesis. 

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