Acetate, chiral

The chiral acetate reagent is readily prepared from methyl mandelate [methyl (A)-hydroxy-phenyl acetate] which is first converted by treatment with phcnylmagnesium bromide into the triphenylglycol783, c (see Section 1.3.4.2.2.2.) and subsequently transformed into the acetate by reaction with acetyl chloride in the presence of pyridine. Thereby, the secondary hydroxyl group of the glycol is esterified exclusively. Both enantiomers of the reagent are readily accessible since both (R)- and (5)-hydroxyphenylacelic acid (mandelic acids) arc industrial products. 

A similar case of enolatc-controlled stereochemistry is found in aldol additions of the chiral acetate 2-hydroxy-2.2-triphenylethyl acetate (HYTRA) when both enantiomers of double deprotonated (R)- and (S)-HYTRA are combined with an enantiomerically pure aldehyde, e.g., (7 )-3-benzyloxybutanal. As in the case of achiral aldehydes, the deprotonated (tf)-HYTRA also attacks (independent of the chirality of the substrate) mainly from the /te-side to give predominantly the t/nii-carboxylic acid after hydrolysis. On the other hand, the (S)-reagcnt attacks the (/ )-aldebyde preferably from the. S7-side to give. s wz-carboxylic acids with comparable selectivity 6... 

The reaction of propargylic chiral acetals with a catalytic copper reagent (RMgX/5% CuX) provides the expected alkoxy allenes in quantitative yield (Table 3)61. The diastereomeric excess is highly dependent on the size of the ring of the acetal and on the type of substituents it contains. The best diastereomeric excess is 85% with the acetal derived from cyclooctanediol. The use of lithium dimethylcuprate results in 1,2-addition lo the triple bond and the resulting lithium alkenyl cuprate bearing a cyclic acetal does not eliminate even at reflux temperature ( + 35°C). 

The catalytic alcohol racemization with diruthenium catalyst 1 is based on the reversible transfer hydrogenation mechanism. Meanwhile, the problem of ketone formation in the DKR of secondary alcohols with 1 was identified due to the liberation of molecular hydrogen. Then, we envisioned a novel asymmetric reductive acetylation of ketones to circumvent the problem of ketone formation (Scheme 6). A key factor of this process was the selection of hydrogen donors compatible with the DKR conditions. 2,6-Dimethyl-4-heptanol, which cannot be acylated by lipases, was chosen as a proper hydrogen donor. Asymmetric reductive acetylation of ketones was also possible under 1 atm hydrogen in ethyl acetate, which acted as acyl donor and solvent. Ethanol formation from ethyl acetate did not cause critical problem, and various ketones were successfully transformed into the corresponding chiral acetates (Table 17). However, reaction time (96 h) was unsatisfactory. 

Use of chiral acetal groups can result in enantioselective cyclization.1... 

A third route to nonracemic a-alkoxy and a-hydroxy stannaries employs the chiral acetal 73 prepared from (f ,f )-2,4-pentanediol (Scheme 30)66. Addition of various Grignard reagents to this acetal in the presence of TiCLt results in selective displacement yielding (S )-a-alkoxy stannanes. The corresponding a-hydroxy derivatives can be obtained after oxidation and mild base treatment. Organocuprates can also be employed to cleave this acetal but with somewhat lower selectivity67. 

Chiral acetals/ketals derived from either (R,R)- or (5,5 )-pentanediol have been shown to offer considerable advantages in the synthesis of secondary alcohols with high enantiomeric purity. The reaction of these acetals with a wide variety of carbon nucleophiles in the presence of a Lewis acid results in a highly diastereoselective cleavage of the acetal C-0 bond to give a /1-hydroxy ether, and the desired alcohols can then be obtained by subsequent degradation through simple oxidation elimination. Scheme 2-39 is an example in which H is used as a nucleophile.97... 

TiCL-induced cleavage of chiral acetal can be used to prepare /i-adrencrgic blocking agents 95 bearing the glycerol structure (Scheme 2-40).98... 

A review of chiral acetals in asymmetric synthesis is available.102... 

Allyltitanium complexes derived from a chiral acetal have been reacted with carbonyl compounds and imines [63], While the chiral induction proved to be low with carbonyl compounds, high induction was observed with imines. This complex represents the first chiral homoenolate equivalent that reacts efficiently with imines. Finally, the reactions with electrophiles other than carbonyl compounds and imines, namely a proton source, NCS, and I2, furnished the corresponding alkene, chloro, and iodo derivatives in good yields [64]. 

The total synthesis of optically active loganin (53) was accomplished by Partridge 25), who photolyzed a solution of the chiral acetate (60) and the ester (56). The intermediate (61) rearranged to the chiral hemiacetal (62), which served as a key compound in the synthesis of chiral loganin (53)15). 

Takaya and co-workers (256) disclosed that chiral copper alkoxide complexes catalyze the transesterification and kinetic resolution of chiral acetate esters. Selec-tivities are very poor (E values of 1.1-1.5) but it was noted that the Lewis acid BINAP CuOTf was not an effective catalyst. The observation thatp-chlorophcnyl-BINAP-CuOf-Bu complex gave faster rates than BINAP-CuOt-Bu suggests that both the Lewis acidic and Lewis basic properties of the copper alkoxide are required for optimal reactivity. 

The addition of doubly deprotonated HYTRA to achiral4 5 as well as to enantiomerically pure aldehydes enables one to obtain non-racemic (3-hydroxycarboxylic acids. Thus, the method provides a practical solution for the stereoselective aldoi addition of a-unsubstituted enolates, a long-standing synthetic problem.7 As opposed to some other chiral acetate reagents,7 both enantiomers of HYTRA are readily available. Furthermore, the chiral auxiliary reagent, 1,1,2-triphenyl-1,2-ethanediol, can be recovered easily. Aldol additions of HYTRA have been used in syntheses of natural products and biological active compounds, and some of those applications are given in Table I. (The chiral center, introduced by a stereoselective aldol addition with HYTRA, is marked by an asterisk.)... 

H) [a]D -64.1° (CHCI3), c 1.0). The optical purity of this adduct was 95% as determined by 200 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy and GC analysis (capillary column PEG, 0.25 mm x 25 m, purchased from Gaskuro Kogyo Company, Ltd. in Japan) after conversion to the corresponding chiral acetal as follows A solution of the adduct, (2R,4R)-(-)-pentanediol (1.2 equiv, obtained from Wako Pure Chemical Industries), triethyl orthoformate (1.2 equiv), and p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (as a 5 mM solution) in dry benzene is stirred at ambient temperature for 3 hr. The mixture is poured into saturated sodium bicarbonate and the product is extracted with ether. The... 

Extensive investigations have been directed toward the development of chiral ester enolates that might exhibit practical levels of aldol asymmetric induction. Much of the early work in this area has been reviewed (111). In general, metal enolates derived from chiral acetate and propionate esters exhibit low levels of aldol asymmetric induction that rarely exceed 50% enantiomeric excess. The added problems associated with the low levels of aldol diastereoselection found with most substituted ester enolates (cf. Table 11) further detract from their utility as effective chiral enolates for the aldol process. Recent studies have examined the potential applications of the chiral propionates 121 to 125 in the aldol condensation (eq. [94]), and the observed erythro-threo diastereoselection and diastere-oface selection for these enolates are summarized in Table 31. For the six lithium enolates the threo diastereoselection was found to be... 

The importance of the (Z)-enolate substitution has been noted elsewhere in this chapter (see Table 32). A practical solution to the generation of a useful chiral acetate enolate synthon has been to employ a substituted enolate where the ligand Rj may be removed after the aldol condensation. Enolate 149b (Rj = SMe) serves this purpose adequately (eq. [102]). The resultant alddl adducts 151b... 

It should also be noted that there is a strong conformational bias for only one of the product chelate conformers. For example, erythro chelate D should be strongly disfavored by both 1,3-diaxial Rj L and CH3 Xq steric control elements. Consequently, it is assumed that the transition states leading to either adduct will reflect this conformational bias. Further support for these projections stems from the observations that the chiral acetate enolates derived from 149a exhibit only poor diastereoface selection. In these cases the developing Rj CH3 interaction leading to diastereomer A is absent. Similar transition state allylic strain considerations also appear to be important with the zirconium enolates, which are discussed below. 

Further support for this explanation is the fact that the chiral acetate enolates derived from A -acetyl-2-oxazolidone (46). in which the developing Rj <-> CH3 interaction leading to diastereomer A is absent, exhibit only poor diastereofacial selection. 

Figure 4. Synthesis of chiral acetals 39 and 40 derived from 2-deoxystreptamine.

Reagent 88 also ranks among the most highly enantioselective chiral acetate aldol enolate equivalents (a) Braun, M. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1987, 26, 24, and literature cited therein, (b) Masamune, S. Sato, T. Kim, B. M. Wollmann, T. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1986,... 

Optically active cyanohydrins are obtained in good selectivity by the nucleophilic attack of cyanating reagents to chiral acetals.(21) However, the chiral auxiliaries are destroyed, and not recovered. In catalytic processes with chiral boryl compounds,(22) D-oxynitrilase,(23) and synthetic peptides,(24) the optical purities of the resulting cyanohydrins are generally not sufficient. 

This procedure involves the enzymatic conversion of the chiral acetate (C(HDT)COO ), obtained from experiments involving chiral methyl groups, to labeled malate. The enzymes used in this procedure include acetate kinase, phosphotransacetylase, malate synthase, and fumarase. 

We discovered that cymene-ruthenium catalysts 3a-c were effective catalyst systems for facile DKR of secondary alcohols at 40 °C. This catalyst system was particularly useful for the DKR of allylic alcohols [18], which underwent smoothly at room temperature to provide the corresponding chiral acetates with excellent optical purities (Scheme 1.16). This work has for the first time demonstrated that DKR can be performed at room temperature. 

One of the first fluorescence-based ee assays uses umbelliferone (14) as the built-in fluorophore and works for several different types of enzymatic reactions 70,86). In an initial investigation, the system was used to monitor the hydrolytic kinetic resolution of chiral acetates (e.g., rac-11) (Fig. 8). It is based on a sequence of two coupled enzymatic steps that converts a pair of enantiomeric alcohols formed by the asymmetric hydrolysis under study (e.g., R - and (5)-12) into a fluorescent product (e.g., 14). In the first step, (R)- and (5)-ll are subjected separately to hydrolysis in reactions catalyzed by a mutant enzyme (lipase or esterase). The goal of the assay is to measure the enantioselectivity of this kinetic resolution. The relative amount of R)- and ( S)-12 produced after a given reaction time is a measure of the enantioselectivity and can be ascertained rapidly, but not directly. 

Bartlett PA, Johnson WS, Elliott JD (1983) Asymmetric synthesis via acetal templates. 3. On the stereochemistry observed in the cyclization of chiral acetals of polyolefinic aldehydes formation of optically active homoallylic alcohols. J Am Chem Soc 105 2088-2089... 

Early efforts using a chiral auxiliary, such as a chiral acetal or 2-phenylcyclohexanol, resulted in modest diastereoselectivity. - ... 

The key sequence in a somewhat involved stereospecihc total synthesis of a carbacephem starts by preparation of a chiral auxiliary. It is interesting to note that nitrogen is the only atom from this molecule retained in the hnal product. Constmction of this moiety starts with the formation of the carbethoxy derivative (37-2) from L(- -)-phenylglycine (37-1). Selective reduction of the free carboxyl group with borane. THF leads to the hydroxycarbamate (37-3). In a one-pot sequence, this is first cyclized to the corresponding oxazolidinone (37-4) by means of sodium hydride and then alkylated with ethyl bromoacetate (37-5). Saponification of the side chain then affords the chiral acetic acid (37-6). The carboxyl group is then activated by conversion to its acid chloride (37-7). 

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