Asymmetric nucleophilic aromatic substitution chiral nucleophiles

Aldol reactions using a quaternary chinchona alkaloid-based ammonium salt as orga-nocatalyst Several quaternary ammonium salts derived from cinchona alkaloids have proven to be excellent organocatalysts for asymmetric nucleophilic substitutions, Michael reactions and other syntheses. As described in more detail in, e.g., Chapters 3 and 4, those salts act as chiral phase-transfer catalysts. It is, therefore, not surprising that catalysts of type 31 have been also applied in the asymmetric aldol reaction [65, 66], The aldol reactions were performed with the aromatic enolate 30a and benzaldehyde in the presence of ammonium fluoride salts derived from cinchonidine and cinchonine, respectively, as a phase-transfer catalyst (10 mol%). For example, in the presence of the cinchonine-derived catalyst 31 the desired product (S)-32a was formed in 65% yield (Scheme 6.16). The enantioselectivity, however, was low (39% ee) [65],... 

An asymmetric synthesis of chiral binaphthyls has been accomplished utilizing naphthyloxazolines. The method is based on the facile displacement of an o-methoxyl group in aryloxazolines by various nucleophiles (13). The aromatic substitution process has now also been found to proceed with o-methoxynaphthyloxazolines (Fig. 10). A number of nucleophilic reagents smoothly displaced the methoxyl group to and after hydrolysis led to 1-substituted-2-naphthoic acids Utilization of this efficient coupling... 

CHIRAL CATALYZED ASYMMETRIC NUCLEOPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTION... 

Recently, asymmetric PTC using chiral quaternary ammonium salt 110 has proven to be an effective method for the enantioselective a-arylation of a-imino acid derivatives 108 via asymmetric nucleophilic aromatic substitution, to give a,a-disubstituted a-amino acids 111 in good to high enantiomeric purity (Scheme 8.22) [86]. 

Tomioka documented the use of organolithium reagents in enantioselec-tive conjugate additions to conjugated imines (Equation 31) [136]. The readily available chiral diether 173 served to mediate such additions with high asymmetric induction for example, the addition of PhLi to 172 furnished aldehyde 174 in 94% ee after hydrolysis of the imine adduct. In subsequent developments, Tomioka reported the enantioselective preparation of biaryls in which a naphthyllithium participates in a nucleophilic aromatic substitution catalyzed by only 5mol% of 173 (see insert on the left) and delivers the product in 82% ee [137]. 

Multi-step syntheses of a radiopharmaceutical involving an aromatic nucleophilic radiofluorination An example of a multi-step radiosynthetic pathway is the no-carrier-added synthesis of 6-[ F]fluoro-L-DOPA (Scheme 45). The first step involves the preparation of 4,5-dimethoxy-2-[ F]fluorobenzaldehyde from the corresponding nitro-substituted benzaldehyde. The following steps involve its condensation with an asymmetric chiral inductor [206] followed by L-selectride reduction of the... 

Direct nucleophilic addition of potassium enolates derived from bis(trimethylsilyl)ketene acetals to aromatic chromium-complexed aromatic ethers affords meta substituted products (Scheme 124). A very high degree of asymmetric induction is obtained upon reaction of chiral arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes. For example, alkylation of complex (80)gave (81)afterdecomplexation(Scheme 125). ... 

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