Aldehydes reactions with allylboron compounds

Allylboron compounds have proven to be an exceedingly useful class of allylmetal reagents for the stereoselective synthesis of homoallylic alcohols via reactions with carbonyl compounds, especially aldehydes1. The reactions of allylboron compounds and aldehydes proceed by way of cyclic transition states with predictable transmission of olefinic stereochemistry to anti (from L-alkene precursors) or syn (from Z-alkene precursors) relationships about the newly formed carbon-carbon bond. This stereochemical feature, classified as simple diastereoselection, is general for Type I allylorganometallicslb. 

These reagents are not isolated but are used directly in reactions with aldehydes, after generation of ate complexes via the addition of an alkyllithium reagent or pyridine11. 2-(2-Propenyl)-1,3,2-dioxaborolane is also metalated upon treatment with lithium tetramethylpiperidide, but mixtures of a- and y-substitution products are obtained upon treatment of this anion with alkylating agents20. Consequently, this route to a-substituted allylboron compounds appears to be rather limited in scope. 

The reactions of ailylboranes, -silanes and -stannanes with carbonyl compounds and imines always take place with double-bond migration, and the structural stability of the reagent is a common problem that is encountered ( 2.7). The reactions of ailylboranes and -boronates occur without catalysis, while those of allylsilanes and -stannanes usually require the presence of a Lewis add [253], The mechanism of the reactions of allylboron derivatives is concerted, and the addition occurs via a six-membered cyclic transition state. A slightly distorted chair transition state model in which the oxygen of the carbonyl group is coordinated to the boron atom is usually invoked (Figure 6.42). Various steric and polar interactions dictate whether the Si or Re face of the prochiral aldehyde is attacked (models C j... 

Enantiomerically enriched bishomoallylic alcohols could be readily accessed by reactions of 2-vinyloxiranes with chiral allylating agents based on a-pinene in the presence of a catalytic amount of Sc(OTf)3 [116]. The p,v-unsaturated aldehydes were generated in situ via Lewis acid induced rearrangement (1,2-hydride shift) and subsequently trapping by chiral allylboron compounds. The products were obtained in moderate to high yields with excellent enantioselectivities (Scheme 12.46). 

Aldehyde 13, readily prepared by a four step synthesis from L-threonine,3a-i5 was treated with the known (Z)-7-methoxyallylboronate 1412a,c. This reaction, as with other reactions of pinacol allylboronates, was relatively slow and required 24-48 h at room temperature to reach completion. It was, however, extremely selective ana provided homoallyl alcohol 15 in 70% yield with greater than 95% diastereoselectivity. The stereochemistiy of this compound was quickly verified by conversion to 3 as shown in Figure 7.3a We now believe that this reaction proceeds by way of the Conforth-like transition state depicted in Figure 7, and not by way of a Felkin transition state as suggested in our original ublication, since a serious nonbonded interaction exists between the (Z)-methoxyl group and the C(3) substituents of 13 in the Felkin transition state. A... 

The following reactions proceed with the participation of the allylic boron system (i) allylboration and protolytic cleavage of organic compounds with multiple bonds, (ii) allylboron-alkyne condensation,598 599 (iii) reductive mono-and trans-a,a -diallylation of nitrogen aromatic compounds, (iv) disproportionation processes between tribut-2-enylborane and BX3 (X = C1, Br, OR, SR). Allylboration of carbonyl compounds, thioketones, imines, or nitriles leads to the homoallylic alcohols, thiols, or amines (Equations (136) and (137). It is most important that 1,2-addition to aldehydes and imines proceeds with high diastereoselectivity so that ( )-allylic boranes and boronates give the anti-products, while -products are formed preferentially from (Z)-isomers. 

A variant of these reactions was optimized based on the Hosomi-Miyaura borylation of a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with nucleophilic boryl copper, providing 2-alkoxycarbonyl (as well as 2-acyl- and 2-cyano) allylboronates such as 40 in high stereoselectivity (Equation 22) [60]. The resulting 2-alkoxycarbonyl reagents react with aldehydes to provide a-methylene-y-butyrolactones. 

Waldmann and coworkers later developed and explored the solid-supported carbonyl allylation reactions for the stereoselective solid-phase synthesis of a collection of NP-inspired 8-lactones. To identify reaction conditions that would give rise to the allylation products with high enantioselectivity and in high yield, immobilized aldehyde 26 was synthesized as model compound and was then subjected to allylation with different chiral allylboron reagents. After some experimentation, it was found that treatment of the resin-bound aldehyde with 4 equiv of D-Ipc2BAll 28 at 78°C in THF/ether 5 1 (v/v) followed by... 

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