Chiral auxiliaries halides

Chiral oxazolines developed by Albert I. Meyers and coworkers have been employed as activating groups and/or chiral auxiliaries in nucleophilic addition and substitution reactions that lead to the asymmetric construction of carbon-carbon bonds. For example, metalation of chiral oxazoline 1 followed by alkylation and hydrolysis affords enantioenriched carboxylic acid 2. Enantioenriched dihydronaphthalenes are produced via addition of alkyllithium reagents to 1-naphthyloxazoline 3 followed by alkylation of the resulting anion with an alkyl halide to give 4, which is subjected to reductive cleavage of the oxazoline moiety to yield aldehyde 5. Chiral oxazolines have also found numerous applications as ligands in asymmetric catalysis these applications have been recently reviewed, and are not discussed in this chapter. ... 

Optically active, a-branched lactams 30 have been built by means of Meyers chiral auxiliaries [ 10]. The key step included the diastereoselective a-alkylations of the initially formed co-i -sulfonamido oxazolines 26. The R or S configuration in the product 27 was obtained reacting the appropriately configured intermediate aza enolates with alkyl halides, high diastereoselectivities have been reported. Several attempts to achieve a complete ring closure to the lactams 30 (via 29) by an acidic cleavage of the oxazolines 27 failed. Varying mixtures of... 

Chapter 1 deals with alkylation of carbon nucleophiles by alkyl halides and tosylates. We discuss the major factors affecting stereoselectivity in both cyclic and acyclic compounds and consider intramolecular alkylation and the use of chiral auxiliaries. 

Racemic fra .s-A--benzyl-2.5-bis-(ethoxycarbonyl)pyrrolidine has been resolved via its dicarboxylic acid, followed by subsequent transformation to offer (2R,5R)-21 or (25,5S -21. The absolute configuration of the alkylated carboxylic acids indicates that the approach of alkyl halides is directed to one of the diastereotopic faces of the enolate thus formed. In the following case, the approached face is the 57-face of the (Z)-enolate. By employing the chiral auxiliary (2R,5R)-21 or its enantiomer (25.55)-21. the (/ )- or (S)-form of carboxylic acids can be obtained with considerably high enantioselectivity (Table 2-4). 

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%. 

The chemistry of chiral 1,3-dithiane 1-oxides, in particular their use as chiral auxiliaries, has been reviewed <19980PP145>. Some further developments in this field are the stereoselective a-alkylation with alkyl halides <1997T13149> or a-hydrazination with di-fert-butyl azodicarboxylate (DBAD) <2000T9683>. The carbonyl group of 2-acyl-l,3-dithiane 1-oxides was also used as an electrophile (Scheme 82). Interestingly, acyclic enolates react with these substrates to give a 95 5 mixture of anti- and ry -adduct, whereas cyclic enolates produce a mixture of anti- and ry -adduct in 8 92 ratio <2000JOC6027>. 

When using the corresponding cinnamyl compound, regioselectivity depends on the size of the alkyl halide. The a-product predominates with iodomethane (90% yield, d.r. >96 4, S) or iodoethane (79% yield, d.r. >96 4, 5), whereas 2-iodopropane attacks the y-position preferably (85% yield, d.r. 89 11, R)5- 52 53. Introduction of other chiral auxiliaries gave no improvement53. 

The enantiomerically pure substituted 1,2-dihydro-4(3//)-pyrimidinone 11 has been employed as a chiral auxiliary for diastereoselective alkylation reactions2. Thus, acylation, followed by enolate formation and alkylation with reactive halides such as halomethanes. (balomethyl)benzenes, 3-halopropenes and 3-halopropynes, affords the alkylation products with high diastereoselectivity (d.r. 93 7 to 99 1) . 

Seebach and Naef1961 generated chiral enolates with asymmetric induction from a-heterosubstituted carboxylic acids. Reactions of these enolates with alkyl halides were found to be highly diastereoselective. Thus, the overall enantioselective a-alkyla-tion of chiral, non-racemic a-heterosubstituted carboxylic acids was realized. No external chiral auxiliary was necessary in order to produce the a-alkylated target molecules. Thus, (S)-proline was refluxed in a pentane solution of pivalaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst, with azeotropic removal of water. (197) was isolated as a single diastereomer by distillation. The enolate generated from (197) was allylated and produced (198) with ad.s. value >98 %. The substitution (197) ->(198) probably takes place with retention of configuration 196>. 

The lithium derivatives described above react with electrophiles such as alkyl halides, carbonyl compounds, and thiocarbonyl compounds, resulting in the corresponding 3-substituted derivatives (190). Hydrolysis of these products by dilute acid as described in Section B,1 gives the new nonproteinogenic amino acid ester (191) along with the original amino acid ester used as the chiral auxiliary. The chemical yields are above 80% (83MI1). 

Camphor and camphor-derived analogues are used frequently as chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric synthesis (cf Chapter 23). There have been numerous reports in the use of camphor imine as templates to direct enantioselective alkylation for the synthesis of a-amino acids, a-amino phos-phonic acids, a-substituted benzylamines, and a-amino alcohols (e.g., Scheme 5.9).43 47 Enantiomeric excesses of the products range from poor to excellent depending on the type of alkyl halides used. 

The diastereoselective alkylation of /V-acyloxazolidinones enolates was examined first. Lithium enolates of 107 were reacted with a variety of alkyl halides, and alkylation products were formed with excellent diastereoselectivities (94-99% de). Hydrolysis gave optically pure carboxylic acids, and the chiral auxiliary was recovered for reuse almost quantitatively.105-106 Highly diastereoselective bromination was also achieved by reaction of the boron enolate of 107 with /V-bromosuccinimide (NBS) (98% de). Optically pure amino acids could be accessed by simple synthetic transformations (Scheme 24.26).106... 

This method of asymmetric alkylation has been performed in a number of other systems with equally good enantioselectivity. Tetrahydroisoquinolines have been alkylated (Eq 1) with various alkyl halides to give l substituted tetrahydroisoquinolines in 50-70% overall yields and with excellent ee s. Several naturally occurring isoquinoline alkaloids have also been prepared (compounds A-C) in 95-98.5% ee. A number of chiral auxiliaries other than the valine-based tert-butyl ether also have been examined and gave 80-99% ee s after alkylation. However, the authors consider the chiral auxiliary used in the present procedure to be superior to the others. 

In the laboratory of T.F. Jamison, the synthesis of amphidinolide T1 was accomplished utilizing a catalytic and stereoselective macrocyclization as the key step. ° The Myers asymmetric alkylation was chosen to establish the correct stereochemistry at the C2 position. In the procedure, the alkyl halide was used as the limiting reagent and almost two equivalents of the lithium enolate of the A/-propionyl pseudoephedrine chiral auxiliary was used. The alkylated product was purified by column chromatography and then subjected to basic hydrolysis to remove the chiral auxiliary. 

In the laboratory of T.-J. Lu, a highly stereoselective method for the asymmetric synthesis of a-amino acids was developed by the alkylation of a chiral tricyclic iminolactone derived from (+)-camphor. The iminolactone can be considered a glycine equivalent. The synthesis commenced with the Riley oxidation of (+)-camphor to obtain the corresponding (+)-camphorquinone. Amino acids are obtained by first alkylating the a-position of the lactone with various alkyl halides and then hydrolyzing the monosubstituted products. The advantage of this technique was that the chiral auxiliary could be fully recovered without the loss of any optical activity. 

Although Me2CuLi-mediated reductive defluorination of 42, followed by a-alkylation with alkyl halide, gave product 45 in high yield and in Z-selective manner, the relative stereochemistry at C-5 and C-2 was not controlled (see Scheme 10.12). For the stereo-controlled alkylation at C-2, a chiral auxiliary at the carboxyl moiety was used, and relatively high diastereoselectivity was realized in the case of camphorsultam derivative 46 (see Scheme 10.14) [23]. 

Recent works in asymmetric induction has yielded two new ways (1) the electroenzymatic reduction [179, 180] and (2) the use of oreganometallic complexes as mediators (like complexes of Ni11, Pd11, or Co11 [181, 182]. For example, nickel-catalyzed cross coupling between aryl halides and a-chloropropionic acid derivatives bearing chiral auxiliaries affords arylpropionates in high yield and excellent enantiomeric excess [183],... 

One stoichiometric method that avoids the use of an expensive chiral auxiliary and allows for the use of nonpyrophoric bases is based on diketopiperazine chemistry. The use of this system as a chiral auxiliary is associated with a method that was developed for the preparation of the sweetener aspartame. At the same time, we were looking at the alkylation reactions of amino acid derivatives and dipeptides. These studies showed that high degrees of asymmetric induction were not simple, were limited to expensive moieties as the chiral units, and required the use of large amounts of lithium [25,26]. The cyclic system of the diketopiperazine has been used successfully by other investigators [27,28], and we also chose to exploit the face selectivity of this unit. L-Aspartic acid was chosen as the auxiliary unit because it is readily available and cheap. All of the studies were performed with sodium as the counterion because it is a more cost-effective metal at scale. Finally, we concentrated in the use of aldehydes rather than alkyl halides to allow for a general approach and so as not to limit the reaction to reactive alkyl halides. 

Studies in the nineteen-eighties revealed that some Maimich-type reactions of imines with silyl enolates can be controlled with high diastereoselectivity, and that use of a chiral auxiliary enables highly enantioselective synthesis of -aminocarbo-nyl compounds [186]. Some Lewis acids, for example TMSOTf and zinc halides, were also found to be effective in catalytic quantities [187-190] although the original method requires a stoichiometric amount of TiCU [185]. In the last decade, further progress has been made by development of new acid catalysts. 

Scheme 2.105 Enantioselective perfluoroalkylation [30] using perfluoroalkyl halides with chiral auxiliary groups [31].

This zinc-promoted reaction has been used with a variety of carbonyl compounds. Thus, the Luche conditions were applied in a synthesis of (-1-)-muscarine using an aldehyde derived from ethyl lactate [109]. Allyl halide condensation onto a-ketoamides of proline benzyl ester gave good diastereoselec-tivity when performed in the presence of zinc dust and pyridinium p-toluene-sulfonate in a water/THF mixture. In this way, a-hydroxy ketones were obtained with good enantioselectivity after removal of the chiral auxiliary [110]. Reactions of allyl bromide under the Luche conditions with y-aldo esters afforded y-hydroxy esters, which were converted in a one-pot reaction to y-allyl-y-butyro-lactones (Scheme 22) [111]. 

We pointed out in chapter 27 that Schultz s asymmetric Birch reduction can be developed with iodolactonisation to remove the chiral auxiliary and set up new chiral centres. Now we shall see how he applied that method to alkaloid synthesis.1 The first reaction is the same as in chapter 27 but the alkyl halide is now specified this gave diastereomerically pure acetate in 96% yield and hydrolysis gave the alcohol 4. Mitsunobu conversion of OH to azide and enol ether hydrolysis gave 5, the substrate for the iodolactonisation. Iodolactonisation not only introduces two new chiral centres but cleaves the chiral auxiliary, as described in chapter 27. Reduction of the azide 6 to the amine with Ph3P leads to the imine 7 by spontaneous ring closure. 

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