Carbocyclizations asymmetric reaction

The preparation of optically pure carbocycles from bicylic lactam templates has been described in a review looking at the use of chiral bicyclic lactams in auxiliary-based asymmetric reactions. ... 

RajanBabu has developed an asymmetric protocol for the heterodimerization of vinyl-arenes and ethenej The use of Hayashi s novel, weakly chelating phosphine 91 is critical to the success of this asymmetric reaction (Scheme 68). 1,6-Dienes (e.g., 92) also undergo direct cycloisomerization in the presence of bis[allyl(bromo)nickel] to afford meth-ylenecyclopentane products (e.g., 93 Scheme 69). The scope of the intramolecular process allows preparation of a variety of carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems. A reaction mechanism involving in situ generation of a nickel hydride catalyst, alkene hydro-metalation, cyclization, and p-hydride elimination has been proposed. ... 

The most prominent and most successful compound classes in this respect are arguably VCPs and MCPs. The ring-expanding annulations of these substrates provide an opportunity for the synthesis of various medium-sized carbocyclic ring systems. However, the number of examples of asymmetric reactions remains relatively low. Their application in asymmetric catalytic processes is the next challenge to render cyclopropane ring opening more useful and fruitful. 

Asymmetric Pauson-Khand reaction in syntheses of heterocycles fused with five-member carbocyclic fragment 980PP121. 

Amino-subsdnued dienes are also important dienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions Recently, chiral and achiral 2-amino-l,3-dienes have been prepared to snidy their reactivity Csee also asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction Section 8 1 2 The reaction of 2,3-diamino-l,3-butadienes v/ith nitrostyrene gives unusual [3t-2 carbocyclization products, 2-aminocyclopentanones, which are not formed by the direct cycloaddidon but derived from the Michael addidon products fsee secdon discussing the Michael addidon Secdon 4 1 3 "... 

This section describes Michael-analogous processes in which, mostly under electrophilic conditions, ally - or alkynylsilanes undergo addition to enones or dienones (Sakurai reactions). The intramolecular addition of allylsilanes is an extremely useful reaction especially for the construction of carbocyclic ring systems, which occurs in a diastereoselective manner, in many cases with complete asymmetric induction. 

The chemistry described in this review article demonstrates the impressive positive influence that catalytic RCM has had on our research in connection to the development of other catalytic and enantioselective C-C bond forming reactions. There is no doubt that in the absence of pioneering work by Schrock and Grubbs, the Zr-catalyzed alkylation and kinetic resolution would be of less utility in synthesis. The number of unsaturated heterocyclic and carbocyclic substrates available for Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carbomagnesation would be far more limited without catalytic RCM. 

One active field of research involving the Heck reaction is asymmetric Heck reactions (AHR). The objective is to achieve enantiomerically-enriched Heck products from racemic substrates using a catalytic amount of chiral ligands, making the process more practical and economical Although intermolecular Heck reactions that occurred onto carbocyclic arenes are rare, they readily take place onto many heterocycles including thiophenes, furans, thiazoles, oxazoles,... 

Miscellaneous Iminium Catalyzed Transformations The enantioselective construction of three-membered hetero- or carbocyclic ring systems is an important objective for practitioners of chemical synthesis in academic and industrial settings. To date, important advances have been made in the iminium activation realm, which enable asymmetric entry to a-formyl cyclopropanes and epoxides. In terms of cyclopropane synthesis, a new class of iminium catalyst has been introduced, providing the enantioselective stepwise [2 + 1] union of sulfonium ylides and ot,p-unsaturated aldehydes.As shown in Scheme 11.6a, the zwitterionic hydro-indoline-derived catalyst (19) enables both iminium geometry control and directed electrostatic activation of sulfonium ylides in proximity to the incipient iminium reaction partner. This combination of geometric and stereoelectronic effects has been proposed as being essential for enantio- and diastereocontrol in forming two of the three cyclopropyl bonds. 

Gilbertson and co-workers were also able to facilitate the rhodium-catalyzed [4-i-2-1-2] carbocyclization reaction with a substrate having an all-carbon tether (Eq. 13). This methodology has been extended to the asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed [4-t 2-1-2] reaction (Eq. 14). Although the exact origin of asymmetric induction was not discussed, the ability to accomplish the asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed [4-i-2-1-2] reaction provides a novel approach to eight-membered ring systems. 

Narasaka s chiral titanium catalyst, prepared from (Pr 0)2TiCl2 and a tartrate-derived (2R,3R)-l,l,4,4-tetraphenyl-2,3-0-(l-phenylethylidene)-l,2,3,4-butanetetrol, is utilized for the asymmetric [2+2] cycloaddition of A-acyl oxazolidinones to 1,2-propadienyl sulfides possessing a-substituents, which afford methylenecyclobutane derivatives with high enantiomeric purity. These chiral adducts are readily transformed to seven- and eight-membered carbocycles with chiral side chains by the ring-cleavage reaction and subsequent cationic cyclization of the chiral cyclobutane derivative [68] (Eq. 8A.44). 

Rhodium-catalysed asymmetric cyclization/hydroboration followed either by Pd-catalysed arylation or by oxidation was applied to the synthesis of a number of chiral, non-racemic carbocycles and heterocycles. Thus, reaction of enyne (28) with catecholborane, catalysed by a 1 1 mixture of [Rh(COD)2]+ Sbly,- and (S)-BINAP (5 mol%), followed by Pd-catalysed arylation with /7-IC6H4CF3, afforded benzyli-denecyclopentane (29) in 65% yield with 88% ee.46... 

A modification of this system was also used in intramolecular MBH reactions (also called as aldol cycloisomerization) [71, 74]. In this reaction, optically active pipecolinic acid 61 was found to be a better co-catalyst than proline, and allowed ee-values of up to 80% to be obtained, without a peptide catalyst. The inter-molecular aldol dimerization, which is an important competing side-reaction of the basic amine-mediated intramolecular MBH reaction, was efficiently suppressed in a THF H20 (3 1) mixture at room temperature, allowing the formation of six-membered carbocycles (Scheme 5.14). The enantioselectivity of the reaction could be improved via a kinetic resolution quench by adding acetic anhydride as an acylating agent to the reaction mixture and a peptide-based asymmetric catalyst such as 64 that mediates a subsequent asymmetric acylation reaction. The non-acylated product 65 was recovered in 50% isolated yield with ee >98%. 

A common procedure used to forge carbocyclic systems is represented by the ring-closing metathesis reactions exploiting various Grubbs-type carbene catalysts. Based on this cyclization technology, Skaanderup and Madsen [71], on the way to polyhydroxy-nortropane calystegines, reported the asymmetric synthesis of aminated 6a-carbahexoseptanose derivatives 311. 

Intramolecular olefinic C-H/olefin coupling with the aid of Ru(CO)3(PPh3)2, which is also effective for the reaction of aromatic ketones with olefins, yields the carbocyclic compounds in excellent yield (Eq. 42) [67]. This type of cy-clization reaction can be extended to an asymmetric version when the [RhCl(coe)2]2/PPFOMe catalyst system is employed [68]. 

Chiral bicyclic lactams are excellent precursors to a wide variety of chiral, non-racemic carbocycles including cyclopentenones, cyclohexenones, cyclopropanes, indanones, naphthalenones, and asymmetric keto acids.3 Recently they have been applied to the synthesis of chiral, non-racemic pyrrolidines and pyrroiidinones,4 that are medicinally and synthetically important molecules.5 The three-step procedure described here provides an efficient route (overall yield 46%) to (S)-5-heptyl-2-pyrrolidinone of high enantiomeric purity. The scheme below illustrates this reaction. 

The chiral amine catalyst shown below was used to promote the asymmetric [4+3] cycloaddition between 2,5-disubstituted furans and trialkylsilyloxypentadienals to generate 7-membered carbocycles with enJo-selectivity and in a promising 89% ee <03JA2058>. Computational studies of the AICI3-catalyzed [4+3] cycloaddition between 2-(trimethylsilyloxy)acrolein and furan at the B3LYP/6-31G level showed that the reaction was a three-step process <03OL4117>. 

Asymmetric [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction affords a practical means of synthesis of optically active cyclobutanes, which can be used as useful intermediates in organic synthesis [138]. Narasaka reported that asymmetric [2 -i- 2] cycloaddition between acryloyl oxazolidinone derivatives and bis(methylthio)ethylene proceeded with high enantios-electivity when catalyzed by TADDOL-derived titanium complex (Sch. 58) [139]. The cyclobutane product was transformed into carbocyclic oxetanocin analogs or (-n)-grand-isol [140]... 

Horton et al. were interested in the synthesis of tetra-C-substituted carbocycles, and extensively studied asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions employing acyclic unsaturated carbohydrate derivatives. Thus, the thermal cycloaddition of the D-arabinose-derived c/i-dienophile (Z)-100 with cyclopentadiene gave endo-adduct 101 in excellent optical purity. The high diastereo-facial differentiation in this reaction arises from a highly favored conformation at the allylic center [76,77] (Scheme 10.33). Therefore, conformer 102 seems to be more favored than 103, where the latter suffers from severe allylic strain between the methoxycarbonyl and the C4-acetoxy group... 

Reaction of asymmetric (2-butene-l,4-diyl)magnesium with a,to-alkylene dihalides usually gives two isomeric products. For example, treatment of (2-phenyl-2-butene-l,4-diyl)magnesium with 1,3-dibromopropane at — 78°C, followed by warming to room temperature, resulted in the generation of two five-membered carbocycles, 1-phenyl-1-ethenylcyclopentane and a-cyclopentylstyrene, with a ratio of 77 23, in a 76% isolated yield. 

The discovery of the [47t -i- 2tu] cycloaddition reaction by Otto Diels (Nobel Prize, 1950) and Kurt Alder (Nobel Prize, 1950), a landmark in synthetic organic chemistry, permits the regio- and stereoselective preparation of both carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring systems. Its application can result simultaneously in an increase of (1) the number of rings, (2) the number of asymmetric centers, and (3) the number of functional groups. The reaction controls the relative stereochemistry at four contiguous centers. The Diels-Alder reaction can be depicted as a concerted -1- (suprafacial) cycloaddition. While depicted as a concerted process, the reaction has been proposed to proceed in a nonsynchronous manner via an unsymmetrical transition state. °... 

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