Reagent-controlled asymmetric

Reagent-controlled asymmetric cyclopropanation is relatively more difficult using sulfur ylides, although it has been done. It is more often accomplished using chiral aminosulfoxonium ylides. Finally, more complex sulfur ylides (e.g. 64) may result in more elaborate cyclopropane synthesis, as exemplified by the transformation 65 66 ... 

Scheme 2.5) was recently reported by Komatsu, Minakata, and coworkers [12]. The reaction with the (i ,i )-complex 12 provided the first reagent-controlled asymmetric aziridination of conjugated dienes, although enantioselectivities were only low to moderate (20-40% ee). 

I.4.5.5. Asymmetric Bond Formation with Reagent Control... 

Oh T., Reilly M. Reagent-Controlled Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions. A Review. Org. Prep. Proced. Int. 1994 26 129-158... 

Reagent-Controlled Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions," Oh. T. Reilly, M. Org. Prep. Proceed. Int., 1994, 26, 129... 

Regarding the reagent control asymmetric addition to imines, there were three reports with aldo-imines. Based on our best knowledge, no asymmetric addition to ketimine was reported prior to our work (vide infra). 

Asymmetric addition to ketimine in a reagent controlled manner has seldom been reported, even by 2008. When we investigated the potential for tbis asymmetric addition around 1992, there were no known examples. In 1990, Tomioka et al., reported the first asymmetric addition of alkyl lithium to N-p-methoxyphenyl aldo-imines in the presence ofa chiral (3-amino ether with 40-64% ee [8] (Scheme 1.11). In 1992, Katritzky reported the asymmetric addition of Et2Zn to in situ prepared N-acyl imine in the presence of a chiral (3-amino alcohol with 21-70% ee [15] (Scheme 1.12). In the same year, Soai et al., reported the asymmetric addition of dialkylzinc to diphenylphosphinoyl imines in the presence of chiral (3-amino alcohols with 85-87% ee [16] (Scheme 1.13). These three reports were, to the best of... 

In principle, asymmetric synthesis involves the formation of a new stereogenic unit in the substrate under the influence of a chiral group ultimately derived from a naturally occurring chiral compound. These methods can be divided into four major classes, depending on how this influence is exerted (1) substrate-controlled methods (2) auxiliary-controlled methods (3) reagent-controlled methods, and (4) catalyst-controlled methods. 

Double asymmetric synthesis was pioneered by Horeau et al.,87 and the subject was reviewed by Masamune et al.88 in 1985. The idea involves the asymmetric reaction of an enantiomerically pure substrate and an enantiomerically pure reagent. There are also reagent-controlled reactions and substrate-controlled reactions in this category. Double asymmetric reaction is of practical significance in the synthesis of acyclic compounds. 

Davis et al.111 developed another method for reagent-controlled asymmetric oxidation of enolates to a-hydroxy carbonyl compounds using (+)-camphor-sulfonyl oxaziridine (147) as the oxidant. This method afforded synthetically useful ee (60-95%) for most carbonyl compounds such as acyclic keto esters, amides, and a-oxo ester enolates (Table 4-20). 

Early work on the asymmetric Darzens reaction involved the condensation of aromatic aldehydes with phenacyl halides in the presence of a catalytic amount of bovine serum albumin. The reaction gave the corresponding epoxyketone with up to 62% ee.67 Ohkata et al.68 reported the asymmetric Darzens reaction of symmetric and dissymmetric ketones with (-)-8-phenylmenthyl a-chloroacetate as examples of a reagent-controlled asymmetric reaction (Scheme 8-29). When this (-)-8-phenyl menthol derivative was employed as a chiral auxiliary, Darzens reactions of acetone, pentan-3-one, cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone, or benzophenone with 86 in the presence of t-BuOK provided dia-stereomers of (2J ,3J )-glycidic ester 87 with diastereoselectivity ranging from 77% to 96%. 

In recent decades, there have been extensive efforts made toward asymmetric PKRs. These efforts include the following categories (i) substrate-controlled asymmetric reactions and (ii) reagent-controlled asymmetric reaction. 

Reagent-controlled Asymmetric Reactions 11.10.4.2.1 Use of chiral metal complexes... 

The known allylic alcohol 9 derived from protected dimethyl tartrate is exposed to Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation conditions with (-)-diethyl D-tartrate. The reaction yields exclusively the anti epoxide 10 in 77 % yield. In contrast to the above mentioned epoxidation of the ribose derived allylic alcohol, in this case epoxidation of 9 with MCPBA at 0 °C resulted in a 65 35 mixture of syn/anti diastereomers. The Sharpless epoxidation of primary and secondary allylic alcohols discovered in 1980 is a powerful reagent-controlled reaction.12 The use of titanium(IV) tetraisopropoxide as catalyst, tert-butylhydro-peroxide as oxidant, and an enantiopure dialkyl tartrate as chiral auxiliary accomplishes the epoxidation of allylic alcohols with excellent stereoselectivity. If the reaction is kept absolutely dry, catalytic amounts of the dialkyl tartrate(titanium)(IV) complex are sufficient. 

Fig. 3.30. Asymmetric hydration of an achiral alkene via hydroboration/oxidation/hydro lysis AFa corresponds to the extent of reagent control of diastereoselectivity.

The nitrido complex was applied to the direct asymmetric animation with a silyl enol ether as a substrate. Although several examples for achiral aminations of silyl enol ethers have been reported [32], an asymmetric version of reagent-controlled reaction has not appeared except for the one recent example [33] and the diastereoselective reactions with silyl enol ethers having a chiral auxiliary [34], The amination, which is presumed to take place via an aziridine intermediate [5g, lid,32], proceeded smoothly to give the A-tosylated a-aminoketone in 76% yield with 48% ee. When the same silyl enol ether was treated with complex 15 under Carreira s condition, the TV-trifluoroacetylated a-aminoketone was obtained in 58 % yield with 79 % ee (Scheme 24). 

H. B. Kagan and O. Riant, Catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions, Chem. Rev. 1992, 92, 1007. T. Oh and M. Reilly, Reagent-controlled asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions, Org. Prep. Proced. 

Chiral synthesis, also called asymmetric synthesis, is synthesis which preserves or introduces a desired chirality. Principally, there are three different methods to induce asymmetry in reactions. There can be either one or several stereogenic centres embedded in the substrate inducing chirality in the reaction (i.e. substrate control) or an external source providing the chiral induction (i.e. reagent control). In both cases the obtained stereoselectivity reflects the energy difference between the diastereomeric transition states. 

Asymmetric ylide reactions such as epoxidation, cyclopropanation, aziridination, [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement and alkenation can be carried out with chiral ylide (reagent-controlled asymmetric induction) or a chiral C=X compound (substrate-controlled asymmetric epoxidations). Non-racemic epoxides are significant intermediates in the synthesis of, for instance, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. 

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