Alkylation glycine imines using alkaloid derived

ASYMMETRIC PHASE-TRANSFER CATALYSED ALKYLATION OF GLYCINE IMINES USING CINCHONA ALKALOID DERIVED QUATERNARY AMMONIUM SALTS... 

In an attempt to develop a PEG-supported version of a chiral phase-transfer catalyst the Cinchona alkaloid-derived ammonium salt 15 used by Corey and Lygo in the stereoselective alkylation of amino acid precursors was immobilized on a modified PEG similar to that used in the case of 13. The behaviour of the catalyst obtained 16, however, fell short of the expectations (Danelli et al. 2003). Indeed, while this catalyst (10 mol%) showed good catalytic activity promoting the benzy-lation of the benzophenone imine derived from tert-butyl glycinate in 92% yield (solid CsOH, DCM, -78 to 23 °C, 22 h), the observed ee was only 30%. Even if this was increased to 64% by maintaining the reac-... 

Recently, Sirit and co-workers [45] developed calixarene-based chiral phase-transfer catalysts derived from cinchona alkaloids successfully used for alkylation of glycine-imine esters. In 2010, Itsuno et al. [46] published quartemary ammonium sulfonate polymers used for a-alkylation reaction of a glycine imine ester with high yields and enantioselectivity. 

In addition, in 2(X)4 Mamoka and co-workers [72] synthesized a recyclable fluorous chiral phase-transfer catalyst which was successfully applied for the catalytic asymmetric alkylation of a glycine-imine derivative followed by extractive recovery of the chiral phase-transfer catalyst using fluorous solvent. Later, in 2010 Itsuno and co-workers [73] published a new type of polymer-supported quarternary ammonium catalysts based on either cinchona alkaloids or Maruoka s-type catalyst bound via ionic bonds to the polymeric sulfonates. 

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