Asymmetric dehydroxylation

The Sharpless asymmetric dehydroxylation of resin-bound olefins was monitored using 3H, 13C and HMQC HRMAS NMR.63 The authors found 13C HRMAS NMR to be particularly suited to evaluating the progress of this reaction and permitted the enantiomeric excesses of the products to be determined before they were cleaved from the support. Most importantly, they were able to evaluate the types of substrates amenable to this reaction on solid supports, showing the ability of HRMAS NMR to contribute to synthetic questions. Transformation of the unnatural amino acid Lys(NH2) on a poly (ethylene glycol)-dimethylacrylamide (PEGA) resin to 6-hydroxynorleucine was confirmed by application of TOCSY HRMAS experiments.64... 

Basically, two different routes are conceivable for their asymmetric construction 1) nucleophilic substitution reaction with a fluoride anion and 2) electrophilic addition of fluoronium cations to activated or masked carbanions. First attempts on enantioselective nucleophilic fluorination date back to the pioneering work of Hann and Sampson [3]. In an ambitious dehydroxylation/fluorination sequence the authors reacted a racemic a-trimethylsiloxy ester with a half molar equivalent of an enantiomerically pure proline-derived aminofluorosulphurane in hope to achieve a kinetic resolution. Unfortunately, the fluorinated product was obtained without significant enantiomeric excess. 

Asymmetric dihydroxylation of trifluoromethylalkenes is also useful for construction of enantio-enriched trifluoromethylated diols usable for trifluoromethylated amino acids with chiral hydroxyl group. Thus, Sharpless AD reaction of 16 provides diol 17 with excellent enantioselectivity. Regioselective and stereospecific replacement of the sulfonate moiety in 18 with azide ion enables the introduction of nitrogen functionality. A series of well-known chemical transformation of 19 leads to 4,4,4-trifluorothreonine 20 (see Scheme 9.6) [16]. Dehydroxylative-hydrogenation of 21 by radical reaction via thiocarbonate and subsequent chemical transformation synthesize enantio-enriched (S)-2-amino-4,4,4-trifluoro-butanoic acid 22 [16]. Both enantiomers of 20 and 22 were prepared in a similar manner from (2R,3S)-diol of 17. 

For the asymmetric synthesis of the 2-substituted chromane 7 via the intramolecular Michael addition reaction of 6, Merschaert et al. also employed natural cinchona alkaloids such as HCD as catalysts (Scheme 9.3) [3]. Here again, the 9-0 functionalization and dehydroxylation of the natural alkaloid showed a large negative effect, indicating that the presence of the 9-OH group is needed to achieve both good kinetics and enantioselectivity. Moreover, C3 modifications of this parent alkaloid did not lead to any significant improvement in the results in terms of the enantioselectivity and catalytic activity. 

LTA which evolve into broad asymmetric bands, tailing to low frequencies at occupancies exceeding the hydration of the floating Na+ ions. In the FAU zeolite, weakly framework-bonded water monomers were clearly distinguished from those bonded to cations after a proof of dehydroxylation was obtained. Furthermore, an abrupt increase of oscillator... 

Toxicology LD50 (oral, mouse) 920 mg/kg, (IP, mouse) 6500 mg/kg mod. toxic by ing. si. toxic by IP route TSCA listed Precaution Combustible Hazardous Decomp. Prods. Heated to decomp., emits acrid smoke and irritating vapors Uses Mfg. of dyes and optical bleaches crystals as phosphors and scintillators in transition metal catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation and dehydroxylation... 

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