Amino olefin metathesis

The application of olefin metathesis to the synthesis of piperidines continues to be widely employed. The use of ring closing metathesis (RCM) in the synthesis of fluorovinyl-containing a,P-unsaturated lactams 148 and cyclic amino acid derivatives 149 is shown below. A key improvement in these reactions is the addition of the Grubbs 2nd generation catalyst (G2) in small portions during the reaction to compensate for catalyst decomposition that occurs at elevated reaction temperatures <06EJOl 166>. 

Basset and co-workers (91) found that amino olefins such as allyl amine and the /V.N-dimethyl derivative failed to undergo metathesis, but that unsaturated quaternary ammonium salts were active at 25°C with zero-valent tungsten and molybdenum catalysts when activated with molecular oxygen. Molar ratios of olefin/(mesitylene)W(CO)3/C2H5AlCl2/02 and olefin/Mo(NO)2Cl2[P(Ph)3]/C2H5AlCl2 were 20/1/24/80 and 20/1/24, respectively. Yields were in the 8-23% range. 

Fig. 4 Renewable platform chemicals used in olefin metathesis (a) plant oils and fatty acids, (b) terpenes and terpenoids, (c) phenylpropanoids, (d) natural rubber (cw-1,4-poly isoprene), (e) carbohydrates, (f) amino acids and peptides, and (g) furans...

The hydroxy-binaphthyl functionalised saturated imidazolium salt is readily available from 1-amino-I -hydroxy-binaphthyl in a reaction with a ( oc-protected mesitylamine aldehyde [86] (see Figure 4.24). The resulting Schiff base is reduced to the diamine by Na(OAc)3BH. Subsequent deprotection and ring closure reaction with triethyl orthoformate yields the corresponding hydroxy-binaphthyl functionalised saturated imidazolium salt. Reaction with silver(I) carbonate and subsequent carbene transfer to the ruthenium(II) precursor yields the asymmetric olefin metathesis precatalyst. 

Fig. 11.12 Two examples of cis Xaa-Pro mimetics (40) (6S,8aR)-6-amino-5-oxo-octahydroindolizine-8a-carboxylic acid was obtained in in good yields and enantiomerically homogeneous form [125-129]. The compound (S)-l-((S,Z)-2-aminohept-4-enoyl)pyrrolidine-carboxylic acid (41) was derived from MD simulations and synthesized as enantiomerically pure compound by Grubb s ring-closing olefin metathesis [130].

Kotha and co-workers used an olefin metathesis strategy in their synthesis of a conformationally constrained seven-membered ring carbocyclic a-amino acid derivative. Treatment of 242 with 10 mol % of 3 in refluxing toluene provided the corresponding carbocycle 243 in 69% yield. 

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