Alkylations enantioselective, camphor

Camphor and camphor-derived analogues are used frequently as chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric synthesis (cf Chapter 23). There have been numerous reports in the use of camphor imine as templates to direct enantioselective alkylation for the synthesis of a-amino acids, a-amino phos-phonic acids, a-substituted benzylamines, and a-amino alcohols (e.g., Scheme 5.9).43 47 Enantiomeric excesses of the products range from poor to excellent depending on the type of alkyl halides used. 

Aziridines can also be synthesized enantioselectively from imines and alkyl halides using a camphor-derived chiral sulfide mediator 640 in a one-pot procedure via the imino Corey-Chaykovsky reaction. Thus, benzyl bromide 641 and tosyl imine 642 provide aziridine 643 in practically quantitative yield as a 3 1 mixture of ( /Z)-isomers and in 92% ee ((i4)-isomer) (Scheme 157). An electron-withdrawing substituent on the imine nitrogen is necessary to activate the 7t-system for nucleophilic attack <2001TL5451>. 

Salto, T., Sakairi, M., Akiba, D. Enantioselective synthesis of aziridines from imines and alkyl halides using a camphor-derived chiral sulfide mediator via the imino Corey-Chaykovsky reaction. Tetrahedron Lett. 2001,42, 5451-5454. 

An enantioselective version of the cyclopentaannulation via [3 + 2] cycloaddition has been developed using cyclopent-2-enone and several different methylenecyclopropanes. Whereas chiral phosphane ligands, such as menthyldiphenylphosphane (21), or the camphor-derived sultam 22 only result in enantiomeric excesses of 31% at a maximum in nickel(0)-catalyzed reactions, the enantioselectivity dramatically increases when the bidentate azaphospholene ligand 23 is employed. The yields, however, are relatively low due to the competing formation of alkylation products. ... 

The most familiar of the sulfonic adds derived from camphor is 10-camphorsulfonic add (44, Reychler s acid45). Both enantiomers are commercially available and convenient procedures exist for their preparation by sulfonation of camphor (ref 46 exemplifies the racemate, but the procedure works equally well for optically active camphor). The free acid is often applied to the resolution of basic compounds such as amines. A detailed review on the use of derivatives of this acid as auxiliaries has been given3. Esters of this add are normally obtained by the reaction of the alcohols with the sulfonyl chloride which is also commerdally available (or readily obtained by the reaction of the free acid with phosphorus pentachloride or thionyl chloride46,48). Such esters with unsaturated alcohols have been used for diastereoselective [1,2] sigma tropic rearrangements (Section D.1.6.3.3.). Allyl esters have been used for enantioselective alkylation reactions, in which camphorsulfonic acid reacts as the chiral leaving group (Section D.1.1.2.2.). 

Starting with (5)-1 -phenylethyl amine, a chiral sulfonyloxaziridine has been prepared by A,T-sul-fonylation and subsequent formation of an imine with an aromatic aldehyde (best example pentafluorobenzaldehyde). Oxidation leads to a 1 1 mixture of diastereomeric oxaziridines 77 which can be separated by HPLC76. The compounds behave similarly to the chiral camphor-derived sulfonyloxaziridines, as they are able to epoxidize alkenes not containing special functional groups with some enantioselectivity (Section D.4.5.2.1.). Another attractive starting material is cheap commercial saccharin. Reaction with alkyl- or aryllithium compounds leads to addition... 

The enantioselective reaction of a-sulfinyl carbanions involves both desym-metrization of the prochiral alkyl groups and diastereoselection. Simpkins and coworkers have reported the asymmetric induction of a traws-thiane oxide with a camphor-derived chiral lithiiun amide giving products with complete diaster-eoselectivity and with good enantioselectivity (Table 6) [59,60]. 

To end this section, it has to be mentioned that there is a single example of a conjugate Friedel Crafts alkylation involving enones as Michael acceptors. In particular, a camphor-based sulfonic acid (94) has been used as catalyst in the reaction of indoles with chalcones (Scheme 4.57). It has also to be noted that the best conditions involved the use of catalyst 94 together with an ionic liquid (l-butyl-3-methyl-l//-imidazolium bromide BmimBr). However, although excellent yields were obtained for a set of different substrates tested, the enantioselectivities remained in rather low values. 

After the success of Macmillan s catalysts, other types of chiral amine were disclosed and applied in the FCA reaction as activators of a,(3-unsaturated aldehydes. Reports from a few groups have revealed that diaryIprolinol silyl ethers [11], camphor sulfonyl hydrazine [12], chiral aziridin-2-yl methanols [13], and A-isopropylated bipyrrolidine [14] were efficient catalysts in the enantioselective alkylations of 4,7-dihydroindoles, 1-naphthols, and indoles. NEt3, benzoic acid, or... 

They introduced chirality on the a-methylpiperidine core in a biocatalytic transamination using a three-enzyme system with excellent enantioselectivity (>99% ee). Low diastereoselectivity of the lactam reduction was overcome by the development of a camphor sulfonic acid salt formatioa A chemoselective O-alkylation with 5-fluoro-2-hydroxypyridine was optimized and developed. Overall, 1.2 kg of MK-6069 was prepared in nine steps and 13% overall yield. 

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