C chiral auxiliary

A -sulfinyl chiral auxiliaries have been used to prepare enantiopure tetrahydro-P-carbolines and tetrahydroisoquinolines in good yields under mild reaction conditions. Both enantiomers of V-p-toluenesulfinyltryptamine 46 could be readily prepared from the commercially available Andersen reagents.Compound 46 reacted with various aliphatic aldehydes in the presence of camphorsulfonic acid at -78 °C to give the A-sulfinyl tetrahydro-P-carbolines 47 in good yields. The major diastereomers were obtained after a single crystallization. Removal of the sulfinyl auxiliaries under mildly acidic conditions produced the tetrahydro-P-carbolines 48 as single enantiomers. 

Scheme 5 details the asymmetric synthesis of dimethylhydrazone 14. The synthesis of this fragment commences with an Evans asymmetric aldol condensation between the boron enolate derived from 21 and trans-2-pentenal (20). Syn aldol adduct 29 is obtained in diastereomerically pure form through a process which defines both the relative and absolute stereochemistry of the newly generated stereogenic centers at carbons 29 and 30 (92 % yield). After reductive removal of the chiral auxiliary, selective silylation of the primary alcohol furnishes 30 in 71 % overall yield. The method employed to achieve the reduction of the C-28 carbonyl is interesting and worthy of comment. The reaction between tri-n-butylbor-... 

Formation of C —C Bonds by Addition to Chiral Dicarbonyl Compounds Where One Carbonyl Group is Modified or Masked with a Chiral Auxiliary... 

Besides high effectiveness in the diastereoselective control of nucleophilic addition reactions, another major goal in the design of chiral auxiliaries is the use of readily available, chiral starting materials. The hexahydro-l//-pyrrolo[l,2-c]imidazole derivatives 9a-e are examples which use the inexpensive amino acid L-proline (7) as starting material. 

A remarkable effect of the reaction temperature on the enantioselectivity of the addition of butyllithium to benzaldehyde was found with polystyrene-bound cvs-enofo-S-dimethylamino -(benzyloxy)bornane (8)12. When the soluble monomeric ligand 9 was tested, the enantioselectivity increased with decreasing temperature (53% ee at — 78 C). In contrast, the polymer-bound chiral additive 8 showed an optimum at — 20 C (32% ee). Although the enantioselectivity of this addition reaction is low, an advantage of a polymer-bound chiral auxiliary is that it can be removed by a simple filtration. 

Chiral imines derived from 1-phenylethanone and (I. Sj-exo-l, 7,7-trimethyIbicyclo-[2.2.1]heptan-2-amine [(S)-isobornylamine], (.S>1-phenylethanamine or (R)-l-(1-naphthyl) ethanamine are transformed into the corresponding (vinylamino)dichloroboranes (e.g., 3) by treatment with trichloroborane and triethylamine in dichloromethane. Reaction of the chiral boron azaenolates with aromatic aldehydes at 25 "C, and subsequent acidic hydrolysis, furnishes aldol adducts with enantiomeric excesses in the range of 2.5 to 47.7%. Significantly lower asymmetric inductions are obtained from additions of the corresponding lithium and magnesium azaenolates. Best results arc achieved using (.S )-isobornylamine as the chiral auxiliary 3. 

An efficient stereoselective Strecker synthesis of phenylglycine has been achieved using the tert-butyl ester tm-leucine as the chiral auxiliary. Its benzaldimine reacts with hydrogen cyanide in hexane at — 23 °C to furnish the ( )-diastereomer with the excellent diastereoselectivity of >98 254. 

A decisive improvement in the stereoselective performance of the Ugi reaction was achieved by the use of 1-ferrocenylalkylamines, in particular, l-ferrocenyl-2-methylpropylamine. as the inducing chiral auxiliary 18, S7. The iminc formed from the (/ )-enantiomer and isobutyralde-hyde reacts at — 78 °C with tm-butyl isocyanidc and benzoic acid to give the (S )-valine derivative with a diastereoselectivity of about 100 1. 

In another approach to the meso problem , utilization of a chiral auxiliary attached at nitrogen appears to induce very high stereoselectivity. Reduction of the optically active imide 10a (see Appendix) with tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydridc in acetone/ acetic acid at 25 "C gives a 4 96 mixture of the diastcreomers 11a and 12a in 87% yield44. On changing the solvent to acetonitrile/acetic acid the diastereomeric ratio is improved to < 1 99, but the yield is lower (63%). 

Only one example, showing high stereoselectivity, is known in this class of reactions. On treatment of the acyclic glycine cation equivalent 1 (see Appendix), containing the ( + )-cam-phor-10-sulfonamide ester as a chiral auxiliary, with boron trifluoridc and anisole at 0"C a mixture of aromatic substitution products is obtained in essentially quantitative yield 55. Besides 11 % of cuV/io-substitution product, the mixture contains (R,S)-2 and its (/ ,/ )-epimer in a ratio >96 4 (NMR). The same stereoisomer 2 predominates when the reaction is conducted in sulfuric acid/acetic acid 1 9, although the selectivity is slightly lower (91 9 besides 25% of ortho substitution). 

The principle discussed in the previous section can be used in asymmetric synthesis, utilizing a chiral auxiliary in the 2-position of the cyclopentenone in order to achieve diastereofacial selectivity. Three types of chiral auxiliaries, the 4-methylphenylsulfinyl (E), menthyloxycar-bonyl (C), and 8-phenylmenthyloxycarbonyl groups (D), have been studied32. 

An excellent synthetic method for asymmetric C—C-bond formation which gives consistently high enantioselectivity has been developed using azaenolates based on chiral hydrazones. (S)-or (/ )-2-(methoxymethyl)-1 -pyrrolidinamine (SAMP or RAMP) are chiral hydrazines, easily prepared from proline, which on reaction with various aldehydes and ketones yield optically active hydrazones. After the asymmetric 1,4-addition to a Michael acceptor, the chiral auxiliary is removed by ozonolysis to restore the ketone or aldehyde functionality. The enolates are normally prepared by deprotonation with lithium diisopropylamide. 

Clay-catalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions were investigated by using chiral acrylates [10]. Zn(II)- and Ti(IV)-K-10 montmorillonite, calcined at 55 °C, did not efficiently catalyze the cycloadditions of cyclopentadiene (1) with acrylates that incorporate large-size chiral auxiliaries such as cA-3-neopentoxyisobornyl acrylate (2) and (-)-menthyl acrylate (3, R = H) (Figure 4.1). This result was probably due to diffusion problems. 

Good results were obtained with (R)-0-acryloylpantolactone (4) in which the dienophile was incorporated with a smaller chiral auxiliary. Some results are reported in Table 4.4, where the cycloadditions catalyzed by Zn(II)-, Fe(II)- and Ti(IV)-K-10 exchanged montmorillonite calcined at 120 °C and 550 °C are compared with those that were not catalyzed and with TiCU- and EtAlCh-catalyzed reactions. Among the metal-clays activated, the Ti(IV)-K-10 was the best catalyst with high conversion and acceptable enantioselectivity obtained after 2 h. 

Mukaiyama aldol reactions have been reported, usually using chiral additives although chiral auxiliaries have also been used. This reaction can also be run with the aldehyde or ketone in the form of its acetal R R C(OR )2> in which case the product is the ether R COCHR2CR R OR instead of 27. Enol acetates and enol ethers also give this product when treated with acetals and TiCLi or a similar catalyst. When the catalyst is dibutyltin bis(triflate), Bu2Sn(OTf)2, aldehydes react, but not their acetals, while acetals of ketones react, but not the ketones themselves. 

Simple 1,2,4-triazole derivatives played a key role in both the synthesis of functionalized triazoles and in asymmetric synthesis. l-(a-Aminomethyl)-1,2,4-triazoles 4 could be converted into 5 by treatment with enol ethers <96SC357>. The novel C2-symmetric triazole-containing chiral auxiliary (S,S)-4-amino-3,5-bis(l-hydroxyethyl)-l,2,4-triazole, SAT, (6) was prepared firmn (S)-lactic acid and hydrazine hydrate <96TA1621>. This chiral auxiliary was employed to mediate the diastereoselective 1,2-addition of Grignard reagents to the C=N bond of hydrazones. The diastereoselective-alkylation of enolates derived from ethyl ester 7 was mediated by a related auxiliary <96TA1631>. 

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