Asymmetric quaternary stereocenter

Fig. 26 Asymmetric aza-Claisen rearrangement of trifluoroacetimidates 49 generating iV-substi-tuted quaternary stereocenters...

Alternative catalytic asymmetric acylation reactions studied prochiral silyl imi-noketenes 89 [110] (Fig. 44, top) and silyl ketene acetals 90 [111, 112] (Fig. 44, middle), leading to the formation of quaternary stereocenters. Furthermore, the... 

Fischer DF, Xin ZQ, Peters R (2007) Asymmetric formation of allylic amines with N-substimted quaternary stereocenters by Pd -catalyzed Aza-Claisen rearrangements. Angew Chem Int Ed 46 7704-7707... 

The previous section discussed chelation enforced intra-annular chirality transfer in the asymmetric synthesis of substituted carbonyl compounds. These compounds can be used as building blocks in the asymmetric synthesis of important chiral ligands or biologically active natural compounds. Asymmetric synthesis of chiral quaternary carbon centers has been of significant interest because several types of natural products with bioactivity possess a quaternary stereocenter, so the synthesis of such compounds raises the challenge of enantiomer construction. This applies especially to the asymmetric synthesis of amino group-substituted carboxylic acids with quaternary chiral centers. 

The first asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-lycorine is outlined in Scheme 15. While our earlier applications of the Birch reduction-alkylation of chiral benzamide 5 were focused on target structures with a quaternary stereocenter derived from C(l) of the starting benzoic acid derivative, the synthesis of 64 demonstrates that the method also is applicable to the construction of chiral six-membered rings containing only tertiary and trigonal carbon atoms. s... 

It is known that 5-acyloxyoxazoles 132 rearrange to 4-acyl-5(4/l/)-oxazolones 133 in the presence of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridme or 4-(pyrrohdino)pyridine. Recently, an asymmetric variant of this nucleophUe-catalyzed rearrangement that employs a chiral derivative of 4-(pyrrolidino)pyridine has been described. This procedure allows the construction of quaternary stereocenters with high levels of enantioselectivity (Scheme 7.38). Representative examples of saturated 5(4//)-oxazolones prepared via sigmatropic rearrangements are shown in Table 7.16 (Fig. 7.18). 

The potential substrates for the Strecker reaction fall into two categories ald-imines (derived from aldehydes, for which cyanide addition results in formation of a tertiary stereocenter) and ketoimines (derived from ketones, for which addition results in a quaternary stereocenter). As in the case of carbonyl cyanation, significant differences are observed between the substrate subclasses. To date, while a few catalyst systems have been found to display broad substrate scope with respect to aldimine substrates, successful Strecker reactions of ketoimines have been reported in only two cases. As is the case for all asymmetric catalytic methodologies, the breadth of the substrate scope constitutes a crucial criterion for the application of the Strecker reaction to a previously unexplored substrate. 

Access to enantioenriched carbonyl compounds of high value which possess quaternary a-carbon stereocenters containing hetero-functionalities represents one of the most challenging tasks in phase-transfer-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation. In due course, Maruoka and coworkers devised the asymmetric alkylation of cyclic a-amino-P-keto esters 67 with C2-symmetric phase-transfer catalyst lh as a means of obtaining aza-cyclic amino acids with quaternary stereocenters (Scheme 5.32) [33]. 

Asymmetric conjugate addition of a-substituted-oc-cyanoacetates 77 to acetylenic esters under phase-transfer conditions is somewhat of a challenge, because of the difficulty encountered in controlling the stereochemistry of the product. In addition, despite numerous examples of the conjugate additions to alkenoic esters, no successful asymmetric conjugate additions to acetylenic esters have been reported to date. In this context, Maruoka and coworkers recently developed a new morpholine-derived phase-transfer catalyst (S)-76 and applied it to the asymmetric conjugate additions of a-alkyl-a-cyanoacetates 77 to acetylenic esters, as indicated in Table 5.11 [40], In this asymmetric transformation, an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter can be constructed with a high enantiomeric purity. 

This chapter summarizes three related and highly effective approaches to the catalytic asymmetric generation of quaternary stereocenters - organocatalytic rearrangements of O-acyl azlactones to their C-acylated isomers and analogous isomer-izations of O-acyl oxindoles and O-acyl benzofuranones. All three processes hold great promise for application in, e.g., natural product synthesis [91-93],... 

Kawabata, T. Kawakami, S. Majumdar, S. Asymmetric cyclization via memory of chirality a concise access to cyclic amino acids with a quaternary stereocenter. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 

Kerr MS, Rovis T (2004) Enantioselective synthesis of quaternary stereocenters via a catalytic asymmetric Stetter reaction. J Am Chem Soc 126 8876-8877... 

Kantchev EAB, O Brien CJ, Organ MG (2007) Palladium complexes of A-heterocyclic carbenes as catalysts for cross-coupling reactions - a synthetic chemist s perspective. Angew Chem Int Ed 46 2768-2813 Kerr MS, Rovis T (2004) Enantio selective synthesis of quaternary stereocenters via a catalytic asymmetric Stetter reaction. J Am Chem Soc 126 8876-8877 Kerr MS, Read de Alaniz J, Rovis T (2002) A highly enantio selective catalytic intramolecular Stetter reaction. J Am Chem Soc 124 10298-1029 Kerr MS, Read de Alaniz J, Rovis T (2005) An efficient synthesis of achiral and chiral 1,2,4-triazolium salts bench stable precursors for A-heterocyclic carbenes. J Org Chem 70 5725-5728... 

The total synthesis of spirotryprostatin B was accomplished by K. Fuji et al using an asymmetric nitroolefination to establish the quaternary stereocenter." The conversion of the nitroolefin to the corresponding aldehyde was carried out under reductive conditions using excess titanium(lll) chloride in aqueous solution. The initially formed aldehyde oxime was hydrolyzed in situ by the excess ammonium acetate. 

Catalytic asymmetric construction of nitrogen-substituted quaternary stereocenter has been another important and challenging task in asymmetric synthesis. The first a-amination using cinchona alkaloids was shown in 1,3-dicarbonyl substrate systems. In 2004, Pihko and coworkers showed enantioselective a-amination of cyclic fi-ketoesters 130, with dibenzyl azodicarboxylate (131) in the presence of... 

Elegant enantioselective total syntheses of quadrigemine C (321) and psyc-holeine have been achieved by Overman [131]. The key step is the desymmetriza-tion of the meso intermediate 319 by asymmetric double Heck cyclization using (R)-Tol-BINAP as a chiral ligand and PMP as a base to provide the Ci-symmetric dioxindole 320 in 62 % yield with 90 % ee, installing the two peripheral quaternary stereocenters. 

Nemoto and Hamada [50] has described the development of a new class of chiral phosphorus ligand - aspartic acid-derived P-chirogenic diaminophosphine oxides, DIAPHOXs - and their application to several Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution reactions. Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation was initially examined in detail using diaminophosphine oxides 77, resulting in the highly enantioselective construction of quaternary stereocenters. With the use of the Pd-DIAPHOX catalyst system, asymmetric allylic alkylation, asymmetric allylic amination, and enantioselective construction of quaternary carbons were achieved with high ee (up to 97-99% in many cases) (Scheme 24). 

Another important application of Ni-catalyzed asymmetric hydrovinylation reactions was the enantioselective construction of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. In 2011, the RajanBabu group reported an efficient total synthesis of (-)-desoxyeseroline 29 employing the highly enantioselective hydrovinylation of tetralin derivative 20g as the key step (Scheme 9.9). ... 

Anthrones [204] and 3-substituted oxindoles [205] possess activated methylenes which have been able to react under asymmetric iminium catalysis with a,p-unsaturated aldehydes. The reaction with 3-substituted oxindoles is especially attractive, since chiral quaternary stereocenters are generated. For this purpose, chiral primary amine thiourea catalyst 132 has been demonstrated as a very efficient promoter for the addition of 3-alkyl substituted oxindoles to P-aryl substituted enals in the presence of benzoic acid as cocatalyst in toluene at rt to afford the corresponding Michael adducts in good diastereoselectivities (dr up to >19/1) and good enantioselectivities (73-93% ee) (Scheme 2.75) [205a], P-Alkyl substituted enals are not suitable partners for the reaction affording very low diastereo- and enanti-... 

A contribution to the synthesis of oxoindoles equipped with quaternary stereocenters of high stereochemical purity was made by Smith et al. [15] in 2009. Nitrones 31 derived from Garner s aldehyde cycloadd readily to ketenes 32, a process that intensifies its asymmetric induction with increasing size of the protecting group (PG). An initially proposed ionic addition to the quaternary carbon of the ketene was subsequently mled out through computational methods [16]. The weak N-O... 

Chowdari and Barbas [22] reported the enantioselective total synthesis of potent cell adhesion inhibitor BIRT-377 (56) in 2005, which has potential for the treatment of a number of inflammatory and immune disorders. Asymmetric synthesis of quaternary amino acids is a challenging task for synthetic chemists [23]. Barbas described the efficient L-proUne-derived, tetrazole-catalyzed direct asymmetric a-amination to construct an aldehyde 55 with the amino-substituted quaternary stereocenter and elaborate this aldehyde into BIRT-377 (56) (Scheme 17.7). 

Fujiwara Y, Eu GC (2011) Application of a New Chiral Phosphepine to the Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Highly Eunctionalized Cyclopailenes That Bear an Array of Heteroatom-Substituted Quaternary Stereocenters. J Am Chem Soc 133 12293... 

Chowdari NS, Barbas CF (2005) Total Synthesis of LFA-1 Antagonist BIRT-377 via Organocatalytic Asymmetric Construction of a Quaternary Stereocenter. Org Lett 7 867... 

Asymmetric Induction on the Nucleophile The use of the tBu-PHOX ligand led to the first catalytic enantioselective Tsuji allylations of simple alkanone enol derivatives 62. These mild, operationally straightforward and stereoselective reactions described by Stoltz et al. [52] produce chiral cycloalkanones 63 with quaternary stereocenters at the a-position with high enantiopurities and in excellent chemical yields (Scheme 12.31). Mechanistic studies showed the incorporation of an O-bound enolate in the intermediate Pd-allyl complex [53]. Further investigations on the substrate scope led to several applications in the synthesis of natural products [54]. Recently, a similar approach was used to afford enantiopure quaternary lactams 65 that intercept synthetic intermediates previously used in the synthesis of the Aspidospcrma alkaloids quebrachamine and rhazinilam, but that were previously only available by chiral-auxiliary-assisted approaches or as racemic mixtures (Scheme 12.32) [55],... 

Scheme 3.53 Asymmetric synthesis of all-carbon quaternary stereocenters.

Kikushima, K. Holder, J. C. Gatti, M. Stoltz, B. M. Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Five-, Six-, and Seven-Membered 3-Substituted Cyclic Enones Enantioselective Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters. /. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011,133,6902-6905. 

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