Chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric Diels-Alder

Sudo and Saigo153 reported the application of ds-2-amino-3,3-dimethyl-l-indanol derived l,3-oxazolidin-2-one 231 as a chiral auxiliary in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. The TV-crotonyl and TV-acryloyl derivatives were reacted with cyclopentadiene, 1,3-cyclohexadiene, isoprene and 2,3-dimethyl-l,3-butadiene, using diethylaluminum chloride as the Lewis acid catalyst. The reactions afforded the expected cycloadducts in moderate to high yields (33-97%) with high endo selectivities and high de values (92% to >98%). 

Paracyclophane[4,5-(/]oxazol-2(3/7)-one (152) exhibiting planar chirality has been used as chiral auxiliary in asymmetric Diels-Alder (DA) and Michael reactions via a,P-... 

Shing, T K M, Chow, H E, Chung, IH E, Sugarometallic chemistry aglycone-chromium complex as chiral auxiliary in asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction. Tetrahedron Lett., 37, 3713-3716, 1996. Akiyama, T, Horiguchi, N, Ida, T, Ozaki, S, Stereodivergent Diels-Alder reactions employing cyclitols as chiral auxiliaries, Chem. Lett., 975-976, 1995. 

Chiral oxazolidine compounds have also been used as chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Adam et al.8 demonstrated the cycloaddition of optically active 2,3-dimethyl oxazolidine derivatives with singlet oxygen. As shown in Scheme 5-9, the reaction of chiral substrate 39 with singlet oxygen provides product 40 in high diastereomeric ratio. 

Carbohydrates have found widespread use as chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric Diels-Al-der reactions156. A recent example is a study conducted by Ferreira and colleagues157 who used carbohydrate based chiral auxiliaries in the Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions of their acrylate esters 235 with cyclopentadiene (equation 66). Some representative results of their findings, including the ratios of products 236 and 237, have been summarized in Table 9. The formation of 236 as the main product when diethylaluminum chloride was used in dichloromethane (entry 3) was considered to be the result of an equilibrium between a bidentate and monodentate catalyst-dienophile complex. The bidentate complex would, upon attack by the diene, lead to 236, whereas the monodentate complex would afford 236 and 237 in approximately equal amounts. The reversal of selectivity on changing the solvent from dichloromethane to toluene (entry 2 vs 3) remained unexplained by the authors. 

Ci.v-1 -(arylsulfonamido)indan-2-ols have been shown to be excellent chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions191. Some results obtained in the Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of 1 (p-lohicnc sulfonamido)indan-2-yl acrylate (303) with cyclopentadiene (equation 84) have been depicted in Table 17. The reaction conducted in the absence of a Lewis acid did not afford any facial selectivity and only moderate endo/exo selectivity. However, when a Lewis acid was added, excellent de values and almost complete endo selectivities (cf. 304) were observed, almost independent of the type and amount of Lewis acid added. 

An extensive review of recent advances in the area of asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions has been published.205 Sterically constrained tricyclic 2-oxazolidmones serve as excellent chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions.206 The Diels-Alder reactions of (—)-(a,. 7, )-colchicine (109) with hetero- and carbo-dienophiles show... 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions have been performed by using either chiral dienophiles or chiral dienes in the presence or the absence of catalysts.47 The progress in this field is remarkable catalytic asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions are generally carried out either by the use of chiral dienophiles or by the use of chiral dienes. Here, the reactions of chiral nitroalkenes with dienes or the reactions of nitroalkenes with chiral dienes are discussed. Many different chiral auxiliaries are now available, and some of them have been used in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions of nitroalkenes. 

Dienes with Chiral Auxiliaries The use of dienes with the chiral auxiliary attached to the C-l position of the dienes is the most popular in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions.59 In 1980, Trost reported high asymmetric induction in the Diels-Alder reaction using l-(S)-0-methylmandeloxy-l,4-butadiene59a However, the result obtained by Trost et al. has remained unique for more than a decade, at least in terms of enantioselectivity. The asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of chiral diene-amines with nitroalkenes gives aminocyclohexenes with good diastereoselectivity (Eq. 8.37).60 The development in the area of chiral dienes is slow it may be due to the difficulty of preparing these compounds. 

For acrylates, or type I reagents, applied in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions, several chiral auxiliaries such as menthol derivatives, camphor derivatives,16,3 and oxazolidinones4 are available. Carbohydrate compounds have also been reported as chiral auxiliaries in a recent publication, although the stereoselectivity was not good.5 Here are examples in which asymmetric Diels-... 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Unlike methyl crotonate, which is a weak dienophile, chiral (E)-crotonyl oxazolidinones when activated by a dialkylaluminum chloride (1 equiv.) are highly reactive and diastereoselective dienophiles. For this purpose, the unsaturated imides formed from oxazolidinones (Xp) derived from (S)-phenylalanol show consistently higher diastereoselectivity than those derived from (S)-valinol or (IS, 2R)-norephedrine. The effect of the phenyl group is attributed in part at least to an electronic interaction of the aromatic ring. The reactions of the unsaturated imide 1 shown in equation (I) are typical of reactions of unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones with cyclic and acyclic dienes. All the Diels-Alder reactions show almost complete endo-selectivity and high diastereoselectivity. Oxazolidinones are useful chiral auxiliaries for intramolecular Diels-Alder... 

Among chiral auxiliaries, l,3-oxazolidine-2-thiones (OZTs) have attracted much interest for their various applications in different synthetic transformations.2 Such simple structures, directly related to far better known chiral oxazolidinones,11,12,57 have been explored in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions and asymmetric alkylations, but mainly in condensation of their /V-acyl derivatives with aldehydes. Chiral OZTs have shown interesting characteristics in anti-selective aldol reactions58 or combined asymmetric addition. 

In this section, the literature about Diels-Alder reactions will be presented in a conceptual and illustrative way. After a profound introduction dealing with the development of mechanistic understanding of the Diels-Alder reaction, some interesting recent synthetic developments and applications will be presented. The reaction types and fields of interest are structured in such a way that they can be easily linked to ongoing research from the past ten years. Special attention will be paid to the application of chiral auxiliaries and chiral Lewis acids in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. 

A wide variety of chiral sulfinyl substituents have been employed as chiral auxiliaries on both dienes162 and dienophiles163 in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Carreno and colleagues164, for example, used Diels-Alder reactions of (Ss)-2-(p-tolylsulfinyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone (249) to separate racemic mixtures of a wide variety of diene ena-tiomers 250a and 250b via kinetic resolution and to obtain enantiomerically enriched... 

Oppolzer and colleagues performed pioneering work on the application of chiral sultam based dienophiles in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. The bomanesultam based dienophiles provided excellent de values in the Lewis acid mediated Diels-Alder reactions with a wide variety of dienes179. The efficiency of the simpler toluene-2,a-sultam based dienophiles was also studied180. Chiral auxiliary 282 proved superior to 283 and 284 in the aluminum Lewis acid catalyzed Diels-Alder reactions of its A-acryloyl derivative with cyclopentadiene, 1,3-butadiene and isoprene, affording the adducts with >90% de. 

Nieman and Keay198 reported the use of c/.v,c/s-spiro 4,4]nonanc-1, 6-diol as a new chiral auxiliary to be used in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Their best results in a series of reactions between chiral acrylates and cyclopentadiene were obtained when the pivalate ester of ds,ds-spiro[4,4]nonane-l,6-diol was used as the chiral auxiliary. When 318 was treated with cyclopentadiene, the expected endo adduct 319 was obtained with more than 97% de (equation 88). 

Optically pure sultams have been used by Oppolzer as chiral auxiliaries in various asymmetric transformations, including Diels-Alder reaction, aldoliza-tion, conjugate addition, his-hydroxylation, and catalytic hydrogenation [42,43]. In the literature, the most commonly used chiral sultam is derived from camphor (Oppolzer s sultam). The ready access to 80 and other chiral sultams from the Diels-Alder cycloadducts could further expand the scope of their use as chiral auxiliaries in asymmetric synthesis. 

Many of the chiral auxiliaries described earlier serve excellently in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. The Evans oxazolidinones (116)t l and the Oppolzer camphor sultams (117)t l are exceptionally good in this regard and, as shown, actually give opposite products. 

The role of Fe -impregnated montmorillonite, and other cation-exchanged montmorillonites, in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions was found to be limited to the use of small chiral auxiliaries the results obtained from these reactions are similar to those of homogeneous aluminum catalysts (eq 15). ... 

The use of amides and imides as chiral auxiliaries in [4 + 2]-cycloadditions has been the subject of numerous investigations. Oppolzer reported the use of camphorsultam 112 in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions [26, 67. 68], The camphor sultam is readily available in both enantiomeric forms from cam-phorsulfonyl chloride. Acrylate 113 was found to react with cyclopentadiene in the presence of EtAlCl2 to give 115 with high selectivity (endo/exo = 99.5 0.5, dr = 97.5 2.5, Equation 10) [67]. Oppolzer also reported that triene 116 participated in an intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction to afford endo product 117 in 71 % yield and 96.5 3.5 dr (Scheme 17.19) [69]. This bicyclic product was subsequently converted into the pyridine alkaloid (-)-pulo upone (118). 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions using a dienophile containing a chiral auxiliary were developed more than 20 years ago. Although the auxiliary-based Diels-Alder reaction is still important, it has two drawbacks - additional steps are necessary, first to introduce the chiral auxiliary into the starting material, and then to remove it after the reaction. At least an equimolar amount of the chiral auxiliary is, moreover, necessary. After the discovery that Lewis acids catalyze the Diels-Alder reaction, the introduction of chirality into such catalysts has been investigated. The Diels-Alder reaction utilizing a chiral Lewis acid is truly a practical synthetic transformation, not only because the products obtained are synthetically useful, but also because a catalytic amount of the chiral component can, in theory, produce a huge amount of the chiral product. 

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