Auxiliary tartrate-derived

Bidentate chiral auxiliaries have since been examined. While camphane-2,3-diol and (5-binaphthol gave disappointing results, tartrate-derived (TADDOL) ligands were found to be very promising as chiral inductors [44]. Particularly interesting results were obtained by using complex 21, readily available from natural (P,J )-(+)-tartaric acid (Scheme 13.21). 

The malic acid-derived auxiliary which gives good results in the ferrocene series also looks promising among the chromium complexes, and the six-membered acetal of 400 is much more easily hydrolysed than the tartrate-derived acetals of Scheme 164 . Lithiation and bromination of 400 gives, after hydrolysis of the acetal, the complex 401 in 90% ee, increasing to >99% after recrystallization (Scheme 165). 401 is an intermediate in a formal synthesis of (—)-steganone (Scheme 182, Section III.B.2.b). 

Chiral acetals have also been used as chiral auxiliaries for the enantioselective cyclopropanation of a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl derivatives (Figure 7). Yamamoto s tartrate derived auxiliaries (15) based on the ether-directed cyclopropanation allowed the efficient preparation of cyclopropylcarboxaldehyde derivatives The reaction proceeded with high diastereocontrol, and the auxiliary could be cleaved under mild acidic conditions (equation 73). 

Ketals 201 from cyclopentenone and dialkyl tartrates have a rigid cyclopentene ring. Submitted to 2 -i- 2 photocycloaddition with a cyc-lohexenone and a cyclopentenone carboxylic ester, diastereoselectivities of up to 84% were obtained. The selectivity was very sensitive to the steric hindrance of the chiral auxiliary and tartrate derivatives gave better results than the corresponding threitoldibenzylethers [162]. When the chiral auxiliary was introduced into an acylic enone system (204), the diastereoselec-tivity of the cycloaddition was low. This indicates that the chiral alkene in the ground state exists as a mixture of conformers leading to opposite facial diastereoselection [163]. 

In 1991, Green showed that slow addition of n-BuLi to a solution of the tartrate-derived acetal 109 leads to diastereoselective lithiation and hence allows formation of the complexes 111 (Scheme 27) [77,78]. Similar acetals 112 and 113 (R= H) performed much less successfully. Formation of the organolithium 110 required an excess of alkyllithium base, and its stereoselectivity appeared to be under thermodynamic control arising from equilibration of various lithiated species [78]. Unfortunately, removal of the auxiliary from 111 and its analogues proved problematic. 

However, most asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrile oxides with alkenes are carried out without Lewis acids as catalysts using either chiral alkenes or chiral auxiliary compounds (with achiral alkenes). Diverse chiral alkenes are in use, such as camphor-derived chiral N-acryloylhydrazide (195), C2-symmetric l,3-diacryloyl-2,2-dimethyl-4,5-diphenylimidazolidine, chiral 3-acryloyl-2,2-dimethyl-4-phenyloxazolidine (196, 197), sugar-based ethenyl ethers (198), acrylic esters (199, 200), C-bonded vinyl-substituted sugar (201), chirally modified vinylboronic ester derived from D-( + )-mannitol (202), (l/ )-menthyl vinyl ether (203), chiral derivatives of vinylacetic acid (204), ( )-l-ethoxy-3-fluoroalkyl-3-hydroxy-4-(4-methylphenylsulfinyl)but-1 -enes (205), enantiopure Y-oxygenated-a,P-unsaturated phenyl sulfones (206), chiral (a-oxyallyl)silanes (207), and (S )-but-3-ene-1,2-diol derivatives (208). As a chiral auxiliary, diisopropyl (i ,i )-tartrate (209, 210) has been very popular. 

We began these studies with the intention of applying this tandem asymmetric epoxidation/asymmetric allylboration sequence towards the synthesis of D-olivose derivative 63 (refer to Figure 18). As the foregoing discussion indicates, our research has moved somewhat away from this goal and we have not yet had the opportunity to undertake this synthesis. This, as well as the synthesis of the olivomycin CDE trisaccharide, remain as problems for future exploration. Because it is the enantioselectivity of the tartrate ester allylboronates that has limited the success of the mismatched double asymmetric reactions discussed here, as well as in several other cases published from our laboratorythe focus of our work on chiral allyiboronate chemistry has shifted away from synthetic applications and towards the development of a more highly enantioselective chiral auxiliary. One such auxiliary has been developed, as described below. 

A chiral zinc(II) complex derived from Et2Zn and diisopropyl (/ ,/ )-tartrate as a chiral auxiliary is applied to the asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to an achiral allylic alcohol, giving the corresponding (R)-2-isoxazolines with high enantioselectivity. Addition of a small amount of ethereal compounds such as DME and 1,4-dioxane is crucial for achieving the high asymmetric induction in a reproducible manner [71] (Eq. 8A.47). 

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. 

Chiral addition of allyl metals to imines is one of the useful approaches toward the synthesis of homoallylic amines. These amines can be readily converted to a variety of biologically important molecules such as a-, / -, and y-amino acids. Itsuno and co-workers utilized the allylborane 174 derived from diisopropyl tartrate and cr-pinene for the enantioselective allylboration of imines. The corresponding iV-aluminoimines 173 are readily available from the nitriles via partial reduction using diisobutylaluminium hydride (DIBAL-H) <1999JOM103>. Recently, iV-benzyl-imines 176 have also been utilized for the asymmetric allylboration with allylpinacol boronate 177 in the presence of chiral phosphines as the chiral auxiliaries to obtain homoallylic A -benzylamines 178 in high yield and selectivity (Scheme 29) <2006JA7687>. 

In an industrial asymmetric synthesis en route to the antiinflammatory agent naproxen, the dimethyl L-tartrate acetals of ethyl aryl ketones are brominated in high yield and selectivity to give the corresponding a-bromo derivatives. Subsequent stereospecific Ag -promoted 1,2-aryl migration provides the 2-alkyl-2-arylacetic acid after hydrolysis of the tartrate auxiliary, which is recovered (e.g. eq 4). 

The preparation of optically pure naproxen by the Zambon procedure (Figure 16.2) [22] is another example of a molecule from the chiral pool. Rearrangement of the tartaric acid-derived ketal 3 establishes the chiral center in naproxen, and the overall yield is excellent. However, this process does bear the burdens of recovering and regenerating the chiral tartrate auxiliary and of neutralizing the HBr generated by hydrogenolysis. 

Seebach s TADDOL auxiliaries, derived from tartrate (chapter 23), combine well with Ti(IV) to make an effective Lewis acid catalyst 130 for Diels-Alder reactions. The reaction of isoprene with the doubly activated amide dienophile 128 gives one adduct 129 in good yield.29 Polymer supported versions of this catalyst are available. 

The scope of kinetic resolution of this type is not limited to alcohol derivatives but can be extended to N-tosylamino derivatives when the titanium-tartrate catalyst modified with calcium hydride and silica gel is used. Resolution of AT-tosylamines 47 is effected with high efficiency but the configuration of the slow reacting isomer is opposite to that expected from the empirical rules for kinetic resolution (Scheme 11) The (R)-isomer of 47 is oxidized prior to the (S)-isomer when (-i-)-DIPT is used as a chiral auxiliary. Again, the A -piperidone 49 of high enantiopurity can be obtained by oxidation of the enantioenriched furylamines 48 with ra-CPBA [79]. 

Cyclopropanation of eA o-A-[(lf ,25,3/ ,4S)-2-hydroxy-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]hept-3-yl]-3-phenyl-2-propenamide with the diiodomethane/diethylzinc reagent proceeds with moderate diastereofacial selectivity only. However, the corresponding O-triisopropylsilyl-protected compound reacts with excellent but opposite diastereoselectivity the added diethyl tartrate has no influence on the stereoselectivity but only on the rate of the reaction. Similar effects are observed for the related cWo-derivatives of the amino alcohol auxiliary, which induces the opposite absolute configurations at the cyclopropane ring101. 

Chiral auxiliaries are particularly important in asymmetric synthesis. A bicyclic orthoester derived from dimethyl-L-tartrate (la) provides a novel auxiliary with useful applications. Treating la with phenylmagnesium bromide followed by reaction with methyl 2-methoxy-2,2-dichloroacetate (commercially available) affords in greater than 75% yield the methyl... 

Easily accessible acetals and ketals of a,p-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones derived fi-om C2-symmetric chiral 1,2-diols have been successfully used with Simmons-Smith reagents furnishing cyclopropane aldehydes with high selectivity and recovery of the auxiliary. Thus, dialkyl tartrates proved to be superior compared to 1,2-diphenyl-ethanediols as chiral auxiliaries in reactions of a,p-unsaturated aldehydes. 

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