Enones, 367. aluminum hydrides

Halogenation of 106 with triphenylphosphine, iodine, and imidazole provided the iodo derivative 109. On treatment with lithium aluminum hydride, 109 was converted into two endocyclic alkenes, 110 and di-O-isopro-pylidenecyclohexanetetrol, in the ratio of 2 1. Oxidation of 110 with dimethyl sulfoxide - oxalyl chloride afforded the enone 111.1,4-Addition of ethyl 2-lithio-l,3-dithiane-2-carboxylate provided compound 112. Reduction of 112 with lithium aluminum hydride, and shortening of the side-chain, gave compound 113, which was converted into 114 by deprotection. ... 

Conjugate reduction of enones. a./ -Unsaturated ketones and aldehydes undergo 1,4-reduction in generally high yield with I equivalent of lithium aluminum hydride in the presence of 10 mole % of Cul and 1 equivalent of HMPT at -78°. The active agent presumably is LiHCuI. Cul can be replaced by mesitylcoppcr and copper(I) t-butoxide. 

In this context, a chiral hydride reagent, BINAL-H, prepared by modification of lithium aluminum hydride with equimolar amounts of optically pure binaphthol and a simple alcohol, is extremely useful (9b, 18a, 35) Scheme 15 shows the utility of the three-component coupling synthesis. The < > side-chain unit and the hydroxycyclopentenone can be prepared with very high enantioselectivity by reduction of the corresponding enone precursors (35-38). 

Reduction of isoflavenones. Isoflavenones (1) can be reduced to 4-isoflavanones (2) by DIBAH. Use of lithium aluminum hydride results in ring cleavage by a retro-M ichael reaction. This reduction, however, is general for only a,/l-enones of this type (coplanar, six-membered, endocyclic).10... 

The rest of the synthesis (Scheme 13) is completely stereospecific and most of the steps are known (20). The bicyclic acid was oxidatively decarboxylated with lead tetraacetate and copper acetate (21). The resulting enone was alkylated with methyllithium giving a single crystalline allylic tertiary alcohol. This compound was cleaved with osmium tetroxide and sodium periodate. Inverse addition of the Wittig reagent effected methylenation in 85% yield. Finally, the acid was reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to grandisol. 

Asymmetric reduction of oi, -enones. Prochiral cyclic and acyclic a,p-enones are reduced by lithium aluminum hydride complexed with 1 to (S)-allylic alcohols in optical yields of 30-100% (equation 1). 

Stereospecific reduction of an enone. Reduction of the hydroazulenone 1 with lithium aluminum hydride (or NaBH4, DIBAH) gives only the allylic alcohol 2 in... 

The first chiral aluminum catalyst for effecting asymmetric Michael addition reactions was reported by Shibasaki and coworkers in 1986 [82], The catalyst was prepared by addition of two equivalents of (i )-BINOL to lithium aluminum hydride which gave the heterobimetallic complex 394. The structure of 394 was supported by X-ray structure analysis of its complex with cyclohexenone in which it was found that the carbonyl oxygen of the enone is coordinated to the lithium. This catalyst was found to result in excellent induction in the Michael addition of malonic esters to cyclic enones, as indicated in Sch. 51. It had previously been reported that a heterobimetallic catalyst prepared from (i )-BINOL and sodium and lanthanum was also effective in similar Michael additions [83-85]. Although the LaNaBINOL catalyst was faster, the LiAlBINOL catalyst 394 (ALB) led to higher asymmetric induction. 

The results were interpreted in terms of steric requirements of the actual reducing species. It was suggested that attack of BH4" proceeds exclusively along the 1,4-reduction mode, whereas alkoxyborohy-drides (formed as reaction products) prefer the 1,2-reduction mode. The pyridine borine itself does not reduce enones under the reaction conditions, but it inhibits formation of alkoxyborohydrides. - The same trend was observed with aluminum hydride reductions. When LiAlH4 was first reacted with pyridine to form lithium tetrakis(dihydro-N-pyridyl)aluminate, 1,4-reduction predominated. ... 

Two asymmetric synthesis approaches to chiral cyclopentenone derivatives can be envisaged. The first, reduced to practice by Noyori (43), involved reduction of cyclopentene-l,4-dione with lithium aluminum hydride chirally modified with binaphthol to give R-4-hydroxycyclopent-2-en-l-one in 94% e.e. Alternatively, manganese dioxide oxidation of allylic alcohol [40] (Fig. 7), in analogy to the cis isomer (54), would be expected to give the same enone. 

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