Asymmetric aldol reactions using optically

Evans et al. utilized the chiral oxazolidones to prepare optically pure 3-hydroxy-a-amino acids, - important constituents of peptides and 3-lactams. As shown in Scheme 31, an asymmetric aldol reaction using the boron enolate derived from the V-(a-haloacyl)oxazolidone (68) provides the jyn-3-hydroxy-ot-halocarbonyl derivative (69), which is converted to the ann-3-hydroxy-a-azidocarbonyl derivative (70)... 

Catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions provide one of the most powerful carbon-carbon bond-forming processes affording synthetically useful, optically... 

II. Asymmetric Aldol Reaction by the Use of Optically Active Imines... 

Based on this assumption, the asymmetric aldol reaction of chiral 1,3-oxazolidines 1 of methyl ketones was examined. It was found that the corresponding aldol products were obtained in good optical purity when divalent tin chloride was used as an additive metal salt. 

On the basis of encouraging work in the development of L-proline-DMSO and L-proline-ionic liquid systems for practical asymmetric aldol reactions, an aldolase antibody 38C2 was evaluated in the ionic liquid [BMIM]PF6 as a reusable aldolase-ionic liquid catalytic system for the aldol synthesis of oc-chloro- 3-hydroxy compounds (288). The biocatalytic process was followed by chemical catalysis using Et3N in the ionic liquid [BMIM]TfO at room temperature, which transformed the oc-chloro-(3-hydroxy compounds to the optically active (70% ee) oc, (3-epoxy carbonyl compounds. The aldolase antibody 38C2-ionic liquid system was also shown to be reusable for Michael additions and the reaction of fluoromethylated imines. 

The methodology of the catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction has been further extended to the aldol-type condensation of (isocyanomethyl)phosphonates (12) with aldehydes, providing a useful method for the synthesis of optically active (l-aminoalkyl)phosphonic acids, which are a class of biologically interesting phosphorous analogs of a-amino acids (Scheme 8B1.6) [21,22], Higher enantioselectivity and reactivity are obtained with diphenyl ester 12b than with diethyl ester 12a (Table 8B1.6). 

Carbonyl Addition Diethylzinc has been added to benzaldehyde at room temperature in the presence of an ephedra-derived chiral quat (8) to give optically active secondary alcohols, a case in which the chiral catalyst affords a much higher enantioselectivity in the solid state than in solution (47 to 48, Scheme 10.6) [30]. Asymmetric trifluoromethylation of aldehydes and ketones (49 to 50, Scheme 10.6 [31]) is accomplished with trifluoromethyl-trimethylsilane, catalyzed by a quaternary ammonium fluoride (3d). Catalyst 3d was first used by the Shioiri group for catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions from silyl enol ethers 51 or 54 (Scheme 10.6) [32]. Various other 1,2-carbonyl additions [33] and aldol reactions [34] have been reported. 

Aldol reactions using phosphoramides as organocatalysts The organic base-catalyzed asymmetric intermolecular aldol reaction with ketone-derived donors can be successfully applied to the construction of aldol products with two stereogenic centers [82-86]. Trichlorosilyl enolates of type 51 have been used as nucleophiles. Such enolates are strongly activated ketone derivatives and react spontaneously with several aldehydes at —80 °C. A first important result was that in the aldol reaction of 51 catalytic amounts of HMPA led to acceleration of the rate of reaction. After screening several optically active phosphoramides as catalysts in a model reaction the aldol product anti-53 was obtained with a diastereomeric... 

Because these asymmetric aldol reactions are ideal methods for constructing (3-hydroxy carbonyl compounds in optically active form, the development of an asymmetric aldol reaction without the use of an organostannane would be advantageous. Yamagishi and coworkers have reported the Mukaiyama aldol reaction using trimethylsilyl enol ethers in the presence of the BINAP-AgPF6 complex to afford the adducts with moderate enantioselectivities (Table 9.9).18 They have also assigned... 

This protocol has been successfully applied to the reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives such as thioamides and thione esters (cqs 3 and 4). 3-Acetylthiazolidine-2-thiones are quite suitable substrates for the tin(ll) enolate mediated asymmetric aldol reaction and various optically active p-hydroxy 3-acetylthiazolidine-2-thiones are obtained by using chiral diamine 1 (eq 5). ... 

Optically active 1,2-diol units are often observed in nature as carbohydrates, macrolides or polyethers, etc. Several excellent asymmetric dihydroxylation reactions of olefins using osmium tetroxide with chiral ligands have been developed to give the optically active 1,2-diol units with high enantioselectivities. However, there still remain some problems, for example, preparation of the optically active anti-1,2-diols and so on. The asymmetric aldol reaction of an enol silyl ether derived from a-benzyloxy thioester with aldehydes was developed in order to introduce two hydroxyl groups simultaneously with stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation by using the chiral tin(II) Lewis acid. For example, various optically active anti-a,p-dihydroxy thioester derivatives are obtained in good yields with excellent diastereo-... 

Catalytic asymmetric aldol reactions have emerged as one of the most powerful carbon-carbon bond-forming processes affording synthetically useful, optically active /3-hydroxy carbonyl compounds [36]. Among them, chiral Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions of aldehydes with silyl enol ethers are one of the most promising methods. Although several successful examples have been developed since 1990 [37], most of the reactions have to be conducted at low reaction temperatures (e.g., — 78°C) in aprotic anhydrous solvents such as dry dichloromethane, toluene, and propionitrile. 

Although the development of a range of catalytic asymmetric aldol-type reactions has proven to be a valuable contribution to asymmetric synthesis [35—37], in all of these reactions pre-conversion of the ketone moiety to a more reactive species such as an enol silyl ether, enol methyl ether, or ketene silyl acetal has been an unavoidable necessity. However, quite recently Shibasaki et al. reported that a direct catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction, which is known in enzyme chemistry, is also possible in the presence of heterobimetallic lanthanoid catalysts [38]. Using fR)-LLB (20 mol%), which shows both Lewis acidity and Bron-sted basicity similar to the corresponding aldolases, the desired optically active aldol adducts were obtained with up to 94% ee. A variety of aldehydes and unmodified ketones can be used as starting materials (Scheme 11). 

A sequential asymmetric aldol reaction Claisen rearrangement was also used in the synthesis of optically pure ester 15, a precursor in the synthesis of HIV-1 protease inhibitor 16385. 

In 1986 Ito and Hayashi pioneered the use of Au(l) homogeneous catalysts in asymmetric organic synthesis. Thus, the chiral ferrocenylphosphine/Au(l) catalyst precursor (3.55/3.56) formed in situ, catalysed asymmetric aldol reactions of an isocyanoacetate with aldehydes to produce optically active substituted oxazolines with high enantio- and diastereoselectivity (Scheme 3.22). The author suggested that the use of gold is essential for the high selectivity, a silver or copper catalyst being much less selective. 

Catalytic enantioselective protonation of prochiral ketone enolates is a beneficial route to optically active carbonyl compounds possessing a tertiary asymmetric carbon at the a-position. In the asymmetric protonation of trimethylsilyl enolates with methanol, BINAP-AgF has been found to act as a chiral catalyst [90,91], which is also known to catalyze asymmetric allylation of aldehydes with allylic trimethoxysilanes [42] as well as asymmetric aldol reaction with trimethoxysilyl enolates [54]. This protonation can be most effectively performed using 6 mol% ofBINAP and 10 mol% of... 

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