Allyl additions sulfoxides, phosphine oxides

The 1,4-addition reaction of stabilized allylic carbanions with conjugated enones is normally complicated by the ambident reactivity of the carbanion. Clean 7-selective conjugate addition to cyclic enones, however, has been observed with lithiated allylic sulfoxides, phosphine oxides and phosphonates... 

Addition of Metalated Allylic Phosphine Oxides, Phosphonates, Sulfones, and Sulfoxides and Sulfoximines to a,/i-l nsaturated Carbonyl Compounds... 

While the chemistry of alkyl and allylic sulfoxide anions is similar to that of phosphine oxides, phosphinates and sulfone stabilized anions (Sections 1.5.2.2.1 -2), the situation is further complicated by the additional stereogenic center at sulfur. Therefore in all cases, asymmetric induction may arise from the stereocenter at sulfur. 

Alternatively, the ambident oi-hetero substituted allyl anions have been utilized as homoenolate equivalents. For example, in the presence of HMPA, allyl phenyl sulfides (251),192 allyl phenyl sulfones (252)192b c and allyl phenyl selenides (253)192d e add to a,(3-enones in a l,4(0)-mode, while allyl phenyl sulfoxides (254) and allyl phosphine oxides (255) afford 1 A j-addition exclusively, irrespective of solvent used.193 Hua has shown that additions of either chiral sulfoxide (254 R1 = R2 = R3 = R4 = H, R5 = p-tolyl) or allyl oxazaphospholidine oxide (256) occur with excellent enantioselectivity (>95% ee).194 Similarly, Ahlbrecht reports that the a-azaallyl (257) adds exclusively in a 1 A j-mode to acceptor (59) to afford 1,5-diketones (Scheme 86).195... 

S. G. Pyne, Addition of Metalated Allylic Phosphine Oxides, Phosphonates, Sulfones, Sulfoxides and Sulfoximines to a,/3-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds , in Stereoselective Synthesis (Houben-Weyl) 4th ed. 1996, (G. Helmchen, R. W. Hoffmann, J. Mulzer, E. Schaumann, Eds.), 1996, Vol. E21 (Workbench Edition), 4, 2068-2086, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 

Scheme 5.39. Allyl sulfoxide additions , fa 1,4-mechanism [198]. (b) Tandem 1,2-addition / 3,3-rearrangement mechanism [148] (see also ref. [199]). (c,d) Transition structures for allyl phosphine oxides [196,197]. Inset Gauche pentane interaction between lithium and the N/je methyl.

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