Amino esters, enolates, reaction with

An ion-pair derived from the substrate and solid NaOH forms a cation-assisted dimeric hydrophobic complex with catalyst 39c, and the deprotonated substrate occupies the apical coordination site of one of the Cu(II) ions of the complexes. Alkylation proceeds preferentially on the re-face of the enolate to produce amino acid derivatives with high enantioselectivity. However, amino ester enolates derived from amino acids other than glycine and alanine with R1 side chains are likely to hinder the re-face of enolate, resulting in a diminishing reaction rate and enantioselectivity (Table 7.5). The salen-Cu(II) complex helps to transfer the ion-pair in organic solvents, and at the same time fixes the orientation of the coordinated carbanion in the transition state which, on alkylation, releases the catalyst to continue the cycle. 

Enolizable A -trimethylsilylaldimines can be generated in situ by the addition of organolithium reagents to bis(trimethylsilyl)formamide. These undergo addition reactions with enolates to form 3-lactams. Phosphonium salts used in catalytic amounts promote the reaction between aryl aldimines and silylketene acetals to form 3-amino esters. Mannich bases with N-2-hydroxyethyl-N-methyl substitution are prepared by the reaction of the iminium salt synthon, 3-methyl-1,3-oxazolidine, with enol silanes in the presence of chloromethylsilanes. ... 

Amino derivatives of pyran-4-one are available from arylpropiolate esters by reaction with the lithium enolate of -acetylmorpholine and cyclisation of the resulting acetylenic P-ketoamides (94S43). 

Ester enolates react with imines to give, as intermediates, metallo-P-amino esters (Scheme 18). Depending on the particular substitution pattern and reaction conditions, these species either undergo spontaneous cyclization or can be isolated as their proto forms and then cyclized, usually according to Breckpot procedure [67]. 

By reaction of a base with compound 251, attack of the ester enolate at the adjacent nitrile occurs, to give the amino-substituted thienoindolizine 252 <1987CL2043> (Equation 34). 

The reactions with a combination of (DHQ)2-PHAL [or (DHQD)2-PHAL] and /V-halosulfo-namides can be successfully applied to trans-olefins. Especially when the substrates are a,j3-unsaturated esters, high regioselectivity as well as good enantioselectivity is realized (Scheme 55).210,211 The use of an /V-halosulfonamide bearing a smaller A-substituent increases the enantioselectivity.211 n-Propanol/water (1 1) is the solvent of choice. Aminohydroxylation of silyl enol ethers has been successfully performed with DHQD-CL or (DHQD)2-PYR, to give the corresponding a-amino ketones.212... 

The different carbosilane dendrimer supports (generation 0, 1 R=H, Me) were then used for the synthesis of the / -lactam (13). As shown in Scheme 7.2, the first step was again an immobilization of a carboxylic acid via ester bond formation. Treatment with LDA and ZnCl2 yielded in situ the corresponding zinc ester enolate (11) which reacts with N-(trimethylsilyl)phenylimine (12) to form the final four membered lactam ring (13). The last reaction step includes several intermediates. The last one is a supported /9-amino ester which undergoes spontaneous... 

Potassium enolates derived from the chiral Schiff bases obtained by reaction of racemic a-amino esters with 2-hydroxypinan-3-one undergo diastereoselective protonation, as evidenced by release of optically active a-amino esters on subsequent cleavage of the imine (Scheme 5). ... 

The scope was then extrapolated to the two-step three-component aza-Baylis-Hillman setup to obtain (3-amino-a-methylene structures. A two-step approach was chosen to avoid the competition between the aldehyde and the imine for the reaction with the enolate, that would lead to mixtures of Baylis-Hillman and aza-Baylis-Hillman adducts, that is (3-hydroxy and (3-amino esters [87]. 

The chelated ester enolate Claisen rearrangement of allylic glycinates 9 is carried out with zinc(II) chloride, which is added to the enolate at — 78 C (Table 19). The rearrangement occurs as the reaction mixture is allowed to warm to room temperature over 1 hour. The 2-amino-3,3-difluoro-4-[(2-methoxyethoxy)methoxy] alk-4-enoic acids 10 arc converted directly into the corresponding methyl esters, which can be hydrolyzed to the methyl 2-amino-3,3-difluoro-4-oxoal-kanoates. 

Asymmetric Mannich reactions provide useful routes for the synthesis of optically active p-amino ketones or esters, which are versatile chiral building blocks for the preparation of many nitrogen-containing biologically important compounds [1-6]. While several diastereoselective Mannich reactions with chiral auxiliaries have been reported, very little is known about enantioselective versions. In 1991, Corey et al. reported the first example of the enantioselective synthesis of p-amino acid esters using chiral boron enolates [7]. Yamamoto et al. disclosed enantioselective reactions of imines with ketene silyl acetals using a Bronsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acid [8]. In all cases, however, stoichiometric amounts of chiral sources were needed. Asymmetric Mannich reactions using small amounts of chiral sources were not reported before 1997. This chapter presents an overview of catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions. 

Stereoselective synthesis of /1-amino esters via asymmetric aldol-type and aza-Diels-Alder reactions has been reviewed.81 Siliranes react cleanly with benzaldehyde to produce oxasilacyclopentanes—with inversion—under conditions of Bu OK catalysis enolizable aldehydes yield silyl enol ethers.82... 

An asymmetric synthesis of a,(3-disubstituted (3-amino esters and (3-lactams has been reported [181]. Chiral (3-amino esters were prepared by a stereocon-trolled Mannich reaction with enolizable imines using an enolate derived from... 

The regiospecific nucleophilic displacement of 1,2-cyclic sulfamidates 130 with methyl thioglycolate or a-amino esters 130 can be accompanied by lactamization (thermal, base mediated, or cyanide catalyzed) to give thiomorpho-lin-3-ones and piperazin-2-ones 131 (Scheme 19) <20030L811>. If malonate esters, phosphonate-stabilized esters, or aryl-substituted enolates were used as nucleophiles in this reaction, trisubstituted pyrrolidines were obtained in high yield <2004OL4727>. 

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