Allylic additions to aldehydes

For a review of allyl additions to aldehydes, see A. Yanagi-sawa, in Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis (Eds. E. N. Jacobsen, A. Pfaltz, H. Yamamoto), Springer, Berlin, 1999 pp. 965-982. 

Solid-supported reagents which have found utility include Nafion-scandium Lewis acid catalyst (allyl additions to aldehydes) [62], HOBt (medium-ring lactamization) [63], EDC (preparation of active esters) [64], and thiazolium hydrotribromide (brominations) [65], A review has also appeared describing the use of supported reagents in separation science, primarily for the selective sequestration of metal ions [66],... 

The phosphoramide-catalyzed allylic additions to aldehydes have also been extended to include stereoselective crotylations. When using geometrically defined 2-butenyltrichlorosilanes, additions to benzaldehyde afford homoallylic alcohols in good yields and excellent diastereoselectivity (eq 11). Enantioselectivities, however, remain comparable to the results for allylic additions. Interestingly, the crotylation results suggest that addition proceeds through a cyclic transition structure. ... 

W. Lee, K.-H. Kim, M. D. Surman, and M. J. Miller, Stereo- and regioselectivity of Pd/In mediated allylic additions to aldehydes and ketones. In situ generation of allylindium(III) intermediates from /V-acylnitroso Diels-Alder cycloadducts, and 1 -amino-4-acetoxycyclopentanes, J. Org Chem., 68 (2003) 139-149. 

Figure 5.1 lists a number of auxiliaries for asymmetric allyl addition to aldehydes. Substituted allyl boron compounds have also been used in reactions with achiral aldehydes. Table 5.1 lists several examples of 2- and 3-substituted allyl boron compounds, and the products derived from their addition. Note that for the E- and Z-crotyl compounds, the enantioselectivity indicated is for the isomer illustrated. In some cases, there was more than one of the other three possible isomers found as well. 

The chiral allyltitanium reagents prepared from the reaction of allyl Grignard or lithium reagents with chiral titanium complexes have been used stoichiomet-rically for the allylic addition to aldehydes with excellent enantioselectivities [71] (Scheme 14.16). Various applications of this methodology in the synthesis of natural products have been reviewed in several articles [72]. 

Alkoxyallylstannanes can be generated in situ by stannylation of allyl ethers or by 1,3-isomerization of isomers, and trapped by boron trifluoride-diethyl ether complex induced addition to aldehydes to give syn-diol derivatives 13,120. 3-Alkylthioallylstannanes can similarly be generated and trapped84. 

Chromium(II) Chloride Mediated Addition of Allyl Bromides to Aldehydes General Procedure12 ... 

In addition, a 532 (visible) or 355 (UV region) nm laser-induced photoisomerization of allylic alcohols to aldehydes catalyzed by [Fe3(CO)i2] or [Fe(CO)4PPh3] was developed by Fan [176]. In this reaction, key intermediates such as the 7i-allyl hydride species [FeH(CO)3(q -C3H3ROH)] (R = H, Me) were detected by pulsed laser FTIR absorption spectroscopy. These results strongly support the 7i-allyl mechanism of photoisomerization of allyl alcohols. 

In 2004, Yang and Tseng reported the synthesis of a series of new chiral amino thiol ligands derived from L-valine, which were further employed (1 mol%) in the enantioselective alkenylzinc addition to aldehydes, providing an efficient route for chiral ( )-allylic alcohols with enantioselectivities of up to >99% ee, as shown in Scheme 3.67. ... 

Scheme 7.4 illustrates some of the important synthetic reactions in which organolithium reagents act as nucleophiles. The range of reactions includes S/v2-(ype alkylation (Entries 1 to 3), epoxide ring opening (Entry 4), and formation of alcohols by additions to aldehydes and ketones (Entries 5 to 10). Note that in Entry 2, alkylation takes place mainly at the 7-carbon of the allylic system. The ratio favoring 7-alkylation... 

As with the silanes, the most useful synthetic procedures involve electrophilic attack on alkenyl and allylic stannanes. The stannanes are considerably more reactive than the corresponding silanes because there is more anionic character on carbon in the C-Sn bond and it is a weaker bond.156 The most useful reactions in terms of syntheses involve the Lewis acid-catalyzed addition of allylic stannanes to aldehydes.157 The reaction occurs with allylic transposition. 

The stereochemistry was controlled by Lewis acid-induced addition of these allylic silanes to aldehydes. The reaction of the silane with O-protected (S)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropanal provides 15. The silane reacted with the benzyl-protected analog to provide 16. 

B. Potassium allyl- and crotyltrifluoroborates undergo addition to aldehydes in biphasic media as well as water to provide homoallylic alcohol in high yields (>94%) and excellent diastereoselectivity (dr >98 2). The presence of a phase-transfer catalyst (e.g., B114NI) significantly accelerates the rate of reaction, whereas adding fluoride ion retards the reaction (Eq. 8.70).165 The method was applied to the asymmetric total synthesis of the antiobesity agent tetrahydrolipstatin (orlistat).166... 

The complex -Tol-BINAP-AgF (/>-Tol-BINAP - 2,2 -bis(di-/)-tolylphosphanyl)-l,l -binapthyl) catalyzes the asymmetric addition of allylic trimethoxysilanes to aldehydes (Equation (7)).7 3 The process can provide various optically active homoallylic alcohols with high enantioselectivity (up to 96% ee) and a remarkable 7 and anti- selectivities are observed for the reaction with crotylsilanes, irrespective of the configuration of the double bond ... 

There are few reports of oxidative addition to zerovalent transition metals under mild conditions three reports involving group 10 elements have appeared. Fischer and Burger reported the preparation of aTT -allylpalladium complex by the reaction of palladium sponge with allyl bromide(63). The Grignard-type addition of allyl halides to aldehydes has been carried out by reacting allylic halides with cobalt or nickel metal prepared by reduction of cobalt or nickel halides with manganese/iron alloy-thiourea(64). 

The development of the Grignard-type addition to carbonyl compounds mediated by transition metals would be of interest as the compatibility with a variety of functionality would be expected under the reaction conditions employed. One example has been reported on the addition of allyl halides to aldehydes in the presence of cobalt or nickel metal however, yields were low (up to 22%). Benzylic nickel halides prepared in situ by the oxidative addition of benzyl halides to metallic nickel were found to add to benzil and give the corresponding 3-hydroxyketones in high yields(46). The reaction appears to be quite general and will tolerate a wide range of functionality. 

Ti-BINOL-catalyzed reactions have been well established. When the Ti is replaced by Zr,92 the resulting complex 140 can also catalyze the addition of allyl-tributyltin to aldehydes (aldehydes allyl-tributyltin 140 = 1 2 0.2 mol ratio) in the presence of 4 A MS. Product l-alken-4-ols are obtained in good yield and high ee. The, Sz-face of the aldehyde is attacked if (S)-BINOL is used, and Re-face attack takes place when (K)-BINOL is used as the chiral ligand. For Zr complex-catalyzed reactions, the reaction proceeds much faster, although the... 

MgBr2-mediated asymmetric nucleophilic addition of Grignard reagents and allyl-tributyltin to aldehydes bearing sugar-derived jS- or y-tetrahydropyranyloxy chiral auxiliaries designed to complex with MgBt2 has been achieved. ... 

One of the main reasons for the popularity of allylic boron reagents in stereo-controlled synthesis is that their additions to aldehydes are reliably highly stereoselective and the ontcome is predictable. The diastereospecificify of the reaction was first recognized by Hoffmann and Zeiss using both E- and Z-crofylboronates... 

Scheme 7. Model for absolute stereoinduction in additions of (—)-bis(isopinocampheyl) allylic boranes to aldehydes.

Another significant development in oxazoline chemistry is the application of oxazoline-containing ligands for asymmetric catalysis, such as palladium-catalyzed allylic substimtions, Heck reactions, hydrogenations, dialkylzinc additions to aldehydes, and Michael reactions. The discovery of diastereoselective metalation of chiral ferrocenyloxazolines has further expanded the availability of chiral ligands for metal-catalytic reactions. 

Stereoselective addition to aldehydes is another powerful tool in organic chemistry. Two very specihc types of this reaction include allylation of aldehydes and cyanohydrin formation. These are both reactions that can beneht from the use of chiral bis(oxazoline) ligands.Two examples are summarized in Figure 9.53. 

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