Ammonium zwitterion -Meisenheimer rearrangement

Scheme 14.21 Enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of homoallylic fragments. CHAPTER 15 [2,3]-REARRANGEMENTS OF AMMONIUM ZWITTERIONS Scheme 15.1 Sigmatrnpic 12.31-rearrangements of reactive ammonium zwitterioas. Scheme 15.2 Meisenheimer s original report of an amine N-oxide rearrangement. Scheme 15.3 12.31- and ri.21-Meisenheimer rearrangements of amine jV-oxides.

The [2,3]-rearrangement of amine iV-oxides was utilized in an efficient S5mthesis of 2,6-dimethyl-l,5-heptadien-3-ol acetate 61, a pheromone of the insect Pseudococcus comstocki tScheme lS.12id Dimethylpyridine 55 was converted in two steps into silylated piperidine 56, which was oxidized with m-CPBA to generate cyclic amine A-oxide 57. Sila-Cope elimination furnished O-silylhydroxylamine 58, which was methylated and desilylated in the presence of Mel and CsF to yield acyclic amine A-oxide 59. Heating this ammonium zwitterion facilitated the [2,3]-Meisenheimer rearrangement to O-allylhydroxylamine 60, which was transformed to the desired pheromone 61 in three steps. 

Early exanples of stereoselective [2,3]-Meisenheimer rearrangements were based on diastereoselective reactions of chiral amine JV-oxides such as 68 fScheme 1S.14T Stereochemical information was transferred from the carbon stereocenter in enantioenriched ammonium zwitterion 68 to the single carbon stereocenter in the rearrangement product 69. 

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