Aldehydes organozinc reagents

Organozinc reagents aie not nearly as reactive towaid aldehydes and ketones as Grig-nai d reagents and organolithium compounds but are intermediates in certain reactions of alkyl halides. 

Numerous chiral non-S-coordinating bis(sulfonamides) have been successfully involved in the enantioselective addition of various organozinc reagents to aldehydes since the first use of tr<2 5-l(i ),2(i )-bis(trifluoromethanesulfo-namido)cyclohexane reported in 1989 by Ohno et These authors demonstrated the usefulness of this ligand in the Ti-catalysed enantioselective addition of ZnR2 to a variety of aldehydes, allowing enantioselectivities of up to 99% ee to be obtained (Scheme 3.37). 

Even if hundreds of chiral catalysts have been developed to promote the enantioselective addition of alkylzinc reagents to aldehydes with enantioselectivities over 90% ee, the addition of organozinc reagents to aldehydes is not a solved problem. For example, only very few studies on the addition of vinyl groups or acetylides and even arylzinc reagents to aldehydes have been published, in spite of the fact that the products of these reactions, chiral allylic, propargylic and aryl alcohols, are valuable chiral building blocks. 

Ketones are less reactive than aldehydes toward organozinc reagents, and they are inherently less stereoselective because the differentiation is between two carbon substituents, rather than between a carbon substituent and hydrogen. Recently, a diol incorporating both franr-cyclohexanediamine and camphorsulfonic acid has proven effective in conjunction with titanium tetraisopropoxide.159... 

Organozinc reagents have been used in conjunction with a-bromovinylboranes in a tandem route to Z-trisubstituted allylic alcohols. After preparation of the vinylborane, reaction with diethylzinc effects migration of a boron substituent with inversion of configuration and exchange of zinc for boron.176 Addition of an aldehyde then gives the allylic alcohol. The reaction is applicable to formaldehyde alkyl and aryl aldehydes and to methyl, primary, and secondary boranes. 

Addition of Organozinc Reagents to Aldehydes, Ketones, and a-Ketoesters 383... 

Addition of Organozinc Reagents to Aldehydes, Ketones, and a-Ketoesters 2.06.16.2.1 Chiral ligands used in addition reactions of diorganozincs with aldehydes... 

Overall, green solvents appear to be a valuable alternative to conventional solvents in addition reactions of diverse organozinc reagents to aldehydes. 

Condensation of sulfoximine 717 with an aldehyde and benzotriazole produces Ar-[ -(bcnzotnazol-l -yl)alkyl]sul-foximine 718. Treatment with allyl silanes in the presence of BF3 etherate or with organozinc reagents allows substitution of the benzotriazolyl moiety in compound 718 to produce variety of substituted sulfoximines 719... 

Benzotriazole-containing resin 167 reacted with aldehydes and amines to give resin-bound Mannich adducts 168, which reacted with Grignard and organozinc reagents to afford tertiary amines 169 <00JCC173>. 

TADDOL 104 and 126 afford 95-99% ee in the asymmetric addition of organozinc reagents to a variety of aldehydes. The best enantioselectivities are observed when a mixture of the chiral titanium TADDOL compound 127 and excess [Ti(OPr1)4] are employed (Scheme 2-49). The mechanism of the alkylzinc addition involves acceleration of the asymmetric catalytic process by the... 

Tandem 1,4-addition to cycloalkenones constitutes an extremely versatile and elegant methodology for the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted cycloalkanones, as is evident from its application in areas such as prostaglandin synthesis. Noyori et al. have reported the use of organozinc reagents in copper-catalyzed tandem additions [64]. The zinc enolate resulting from the catalytic enantioselective 1,4-addition of Et2Zn to cyclohexenone reacts readily with an aldehyde in a subsequent aldol condensation. 

The first asymmetric procedure consists of the addition of R2Zn to a mixture of aldehyde and enone in the presence of the chiral copper catalyst (Scheme 7.14) [38, 52]. For instance, the tandem addition of Me2Zn and propanal to 2-cyclohexenone in the presence of 1.2 mol% chiral catalyst (S, R, R)-1S gave, after oxidation of the alcohol 51, the diketone 52 in 81% yield and with an ee of 97%. The formation of erythro and threo isomers is due to poor stereocontrol in the aldol step. A variety of trans-2,3-disubstituted cyclohexanones are obtained in this regioselective and enantioselective three-component organozinc reagent coupling. 

For reviews encompassing catalytic enantioselective aldehyde vinylation using organozinc reagents, see [71, 72]. 

The chiral f5-dialkylamino alcohol DAIB serves as an efficient asymmetric catalyst for the addition of organozinc reagents to aldehydes. The reaction of diethylzinc with benzaldehyde in the presence of 2 mol % of (2S)-(-)-DAIB to give (S)-1-phenyl-1-propanol in 89% ee is described in the procedure which follows. DAIB exhibits the... 

Intermediate to catalyst for asymmetric reaction of aldehydes with organozinc reagents... 

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