Allyl tosyl amides

Mori et al. have shown that asymmetric alkylation with an allylic tosyl amide followed by a zirconium-promoted cyclization provides an efficient route to mesembrine and mesembrane alkaloids [107]. The best ee was obtained with BINAPO as the ligand. Scheme 28. The product was obtained in 86% ee and following recrystallization the sulfonamide was obtained in 99% ee. 

Allyl tosyl amides. Reaction of all) the corresponding halides (in situ) with amides. 

The palladium-catalyzed ring heteroannulation of allenes 278 by tosyl amide and amine-containing allyl and vinyl halides (e.g., 277) provided a facile route to a variety of azepanes (e.g., 279) (Equation 39) <2003JOC6859> in the case of iV-tosyl-(2-iodophenyl)ethylamine, benzazepines are formed. 

Metathesis of N-tosylated ene-amides and yne-amides has been less extensively investigated. An example of the RCM of ene-amides is a new indole synthesis developed by Nishida [79] metathesis precursor 96 (prepared by ruthenium-catalyzed isomerization of the corresponding allyl amide) is cy-clized to indole 97 in the presence of 56d (Eq. 13). 

Primary alkyl, allylic, and benzylic bromides, iodides, and tosylates react with sodium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide to give derivatives that are easily hydrolyzed to produce amine salts in high overall yields.959... 

An intramolecular allyl silane/N-sulfonyl iminium ion cyclization has also been used as a pivotal step in an approach to the tricyclic core of the unique marine alkaloid sarain A [46]. The starting material was aziridine ester 129 (Scheme 25) which was elaborated to amide 130. An important step in the synthetic strategy was thermolysis of 130 to an azomethine ylide, which underwent stereospecific intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with the Z-alkene to produce bicyclic lactam 131 [47]. This compound was then elaborated into allyl silane 132. It was then possible to replace the lactam N-benzyl functionality with a tosyl moiety, leading to 133, and subsequent reduction of the carbonyl group afforded the desired cyclization precursor a-hydroxy sulfonamide 134. Exposure of 134 to ferric chloride promoted cyclization to a single stereoisomeric tricyclic amino alkene 136 having the requisite sarain A nucleus. It is believed that the intermediate N-sulfonyl iminium ion cyclizes via the conformation shown in 135. 

The allylic alcohol was subjected to an Eschenmoser-Claisen rearrangement with dimethylacetamide dimethylacetal to introduce the C14 substituent in a stereoselective manner. Reduction of the amide to the corresponding aldehyde with phenyl silane in the presence of Ti(0/Pr)4 was followed by an acid-promoted closure of the C-ring of codeine. In order to prevent N-oxidation, the amine was converted to the corresponding tosylamide, via debenzylation and treatment with tosyl chloride, before the allylic alcohol was introduced by the reaction of the alkene with selenium dioxide (65). The stereochemistry of the C6 hydroxy functionality was corrected by applying the well-known oxidation/reduction protocol [46, 60] before the benzylic double bond was reductively removed under Birch conditions. Codeine (2) was obtained in 17 steps with an overall yield of approximately 0.6%. 

The earlier studies and the competition experiments [5b] with equivalent molar, enal, or enone 9-BBN (3-5% excess) reveal that enals or enones are selectively reduced to allylic alcohols (Eq. 25.9) in the presence of other organic functional groups such as nitro, halogen, epoxide, carboxylic acid, amide, ester, nitrile, sulfide, disulfide, sulfoxide, sulfone, tosylate, azo, etc. 

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