Chiral auxiliaries, nucleophilic addition

As a part of ongoing efforts to synthesize a potent, orally active anti-platelet agent, xemilofiban 1 [1], development of an efficient chemoenzymatic process for 2, the chiral yS-amino acid ester synthon (Fig. 1) was proposed. The scheme emphasized the creation of the stereogenic center as the key step. In parallel with the enzymatic approach, chemical synthesis of the / -amino acid ester synthon emphasized formation of a chiral imine, nucleophilic addition of the Reformatsky reagent, and oxidative removal of the chiral auxiliary. This chapter describes a selective amida-tion/amide hydrolysis using the enzyme Penicillin G amidohydrolase from E. coli to synthesize (R)- and (S)-enantiomers of ethyl 3-amino-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pen-tynoate in an optically pure form. The design of the experimental approach was applied in order to optimize the critical reaction parameters to control the stereoselectivity of the enzyme Penicillin G amidohydrolase. 

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. ... 

With chiral auxiliaries1,41 a remote chiral moiety is temporarily introduced into the substrate in order to direct the nucleophilic addition diastereoselectively. The chiral auxiliary can be removed from the initial addition product with complete conservation of the chirality of the desired product and also of the chiral auxiliary. The recovered chiral auxiliary can then be reused in further reactions. Therefore, chiral auxiliaries are used to chiralize an a priori achiral carbonyl substrate by the introduction of a covalently bound, but nevertheless easily removable, chiral source. 

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. 

As is the case for aldol addition, chiral auxiliaries and catalysts can be used to control stereoselectivity in conjugate addition reactions. Oxazolidinone chiral auxiliaries have been used in both the nucleophilic and electrophilic components under Lewis acid-catalyzed conditions. (V-Acyloxazolidinones can be converted to nucleophilic titanium enolates with TiCl3(0-/-Pr).320... 

Aldol addition and related reactions of enolates and enolate equivalents are the subject of the first part of Chapter 2. These reactions provide powerful methods for controlling the stereochemistry in reactions that form hydroxyl- and methyl-substituted structures, such as those found in many antibiotics. We will see how the choice of the nucleophile, the other reagents (such as Lewis acids), and adjustment of reaction conditions can be used to control stereochemistry. We discuss the role of open, cyclic, and chelated transition structures in determining stereochemistry, and will also see how chiral auxiliaries and chiral catalysts can control the enantiose-lectivity of these reactions. Intramolecular aldol reactions, including the Robinson annulation are discussed. Other reactions included in Chapter 2 include Mannich, carbon acylation, and olefination reactions. The reactivity of other carbon nucleophiles including phosphonium ylides, phosphonate carbanions, sulfone anions, sulfonium ylides, and sulfoxonium ylides are also considered. 

There are many reports on the asymmetric addition of nucleophiles to carbon-nitrogen double bonds [6]. However, the majority of these reports are based on substrate control and rely on chiral auxiliaries in imines. Moreover, almost all of these reports are just for aldo-imine cases [7]. 

The first case of the use of amino acids as chiral auxiliaries in nucleophilic addition to triazinones was employed in the reaction of C-nucleophiles with 3-aryl-l,2,4-triazin-5(4 )-ones 16 and A-protected amino acids 17, to form l-acyl-6-Nu-3-aryl-l,6-dihydro-l,2,4-triazin-5(4A)-ones 18 in high diastereomeric excess <06TL7485>. 

Several reviews and research papers discussing the application and extension of this method have appeared.40 For example, Weber et al.41 reported an interesting result in which cerium acted as a counterion in the modified proline auxiliary (SAMEMP 40) for selective addition of organocerium reagents to hydrazones. The initial adduct was trapped with either methyl or benzyl chloro-formate to afford the stable /V-aminocarbonatc 41 (Scheme 2-24). From this example readers can see that this proline chiral auxiliary can be used not only for a-alkylation but also for nucleophilic addition, which is discussed in detail later. 

To complement the above information, a highly enantioselective synthesis of a-amino phosphonate diesters should be mentioned.164 Addition of lithium diethyl phosphite to a variety of chiral imines gives a-amino phosphonate with good to excellent diastereoselectivity (de ranges from 76% to over 98%). The stereoselective addition of the nucleophile can be governed by the preexisting chirality of the chiral auxiliaries (Scheme 2-63). 

Chapter 2 provided a general introduction to the a-alkylation of carbonyl compounds, as well as the enantioselective nucleophilic addition on carbonyl compounds. Chiral auxiliary aided a-alkylation of a carbonyl group can provide high enantioselectivity for most substrates, and the hydrazone method can provide routes to a large variety of a-substituted carbonyl compounds. While a-alkylation of carbonyl compounds involves the reaction of an enolate, the well known aldol reaction also involves enolates. 

In summary, the reaction of osmium tetroxide with alkenes is a reliable and selective transformation. Chiral diamines and cinchona alkakoid are most frequently used as chiral auxiliaries. Complexes derived from osmium tetroxide with diamines do not undergo catalytic turnover, whereas dihydroquinidine and dihydroquinine derivatives have been found to be very effective catalysts for the oxidation of a variety of alkenes. OsC>4 can be used catalytically in the presence of a secondary oxygen donor (e.g., H202, TBHP, A -methylmorpholine-/V-oxide, sodium periodate, 02, sodium hypochlorite, potassium ferricyanide). Furthermore, a remarkable rate enhancement occurs with the addition of a nucleophilic ligand such as pyridine or a tertiary amine. Table 4-11 lists the preferred chiral ligands for the dihydroxylation of a variety of olefins.61 Table 4-12 lists the recommended ligands for each class of olefins. 

MgBr2-mediated asymmetric nucleophilic addition of Grignard reagents and allyl-tributyltin to aldehydes bearing sugar-derived jS- or y-tetrahydropyranyloxy chiral auxiliaries designed to complex with MgBt2 has been achieved. ... 

Chiral oxazolines employed as activating groups and/or chiral auxiliaries in nucleophilic addition and substitution reactions that lead to the asymmetric construction of carbon-carbon bonds. 

An elegant method to suppress the undesired spontaneous hydrolysis of a 5(47/)-oxazolone in aqueous media uses a lipase-catalyzed alcoholysis reaction. Of particular importance is the synthesis of /crt-leucine, a non-proteinogenic a-amino acid that has found widespread use both as a chiral auxiliary and as a component of potentially therapeutic pseudopeptides. Racemic 4-/ert-butyl-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolone 238 was submitted to Mucor miehei catalyzed alcoholysis using butanol as a nucleophile. Addition of a catalytic amount of triethylamine promoted in situ racemization. In this way, the enantiomericaUy pure butyl ester of (5)-A-benzoyl-/ert-leucine 239 was obtained in excellent yield (Scheme 7.75). 

The synthesis of substituted cysteines can be accomplished via Michael addition reactions,]67124-126] by nucleophilic displacement,]127] from racemic thiazolines,]128] via aziridine ring opening,]129 and by asymmetric synthesis using a chiral auxiliary.]130] The details for some of these methods are described. 

The introduction of a chiral auxiliary on the nitrogen of an azaenolate offers the capability to perform asymmetric conjugate additions of chiral nucleophiles to achiral acceptors. This is in contrast to the typical asymmetric conjugate addition of achiral nucleophiles to chiral acceptors.137 For example, the con-... 

The conversion of an a, -unsaturated aldehyde or ketone into an allylic acetal or ketal, followed by SN2 -type attack of a nucleophile, leads, after hydrolysis of an initially formed enol ether, to a fi-sub-stituted carbonyl compound. The overall sequence (Scheme 23) is equivalent to a direct conjugate addition, but has the advantage that it allows the temporary introduction of a chiral auxiliary group if a chiral (C2-symmetric) diol is used in the acetalization step, die subsequent nucleophilic addition leads to a mix-... 

A number of techniques are now available allowing the preparation of enantiomerically pure (or at least enriched) compounds via asymmetric nucleophilic addition to electron-deficient alkenes. Some of these transformations have already been successfully applied in total synthesis. In most cases, the methods are based on diastereoselective reactions, employing chirally modified substrates or nucleophiles. There are only very few useful enantioselective procedures accessible so far. The search for efficient en-antioselective methods, especially for those which are catalytic and do not require the use of stoichiometric amounts of chiral auxiliaries, remains a challenging task for the future. 

Triethoxysilyl acetylene (51) allows a new organocatalytic approach toward the introduction of the alkyne moiety via a nucleophilic addition to aromatic aldehydes, ketones, and aldimines, with EtOK as catalyst (10 mol%). Although a catalytic asymmetric version has not yet been developed, the application of a chiral auxiliary, in the case of imines 53 (Scheme 7.9), led to an impressively high dia-stereoselectivity (20 1) [54], unparalleled by other acetylenic organometallics. 

In contrast to classical Meerwein arylations, non-activated alkenes are well suited for this reaction type for two reasons. First, due to the relatively slow formation of azo compounds by addition of aryl radical 49 to 48, this undesired pathway cannot compete successfully with the attack of 49 on the alkene to give radical adduct 50. Second, a nucleophilic alkyl radical 50 arises from the addition step, which is effectively trapped by electrophilic salt 48 to give azo compound 51. As a result of several improvements, the methodology is now applicable for a wide range of polar to non-polar alkenes with almost no restrictions on the substitution pattern of the diazonium salt [101, 102]. Moderate diastereoselectivities have been obtained in first attempts with chiral auxiliaries [103]. The azo compounds accessible, such as 51, can be converted to carboamination products 52 by hydrogenation and to various other heterocycles. 

An alternative stereoselective synthesis of chiral heterocycles based on carbohydrate-induced stereodifferentiation includes nucleophilic addition reactions on heterocyclic systems already bound to the carbohydrate auxiliary. An example of this strategy has been shown by stereoselective addition of Grignard reagents to carbohydrate-linked 4-pyridones [61]. For this purpose, trimethylsiloxypyridine was glycosylated regioselectively using pivaloyl-protected glycosyl fluorides. 

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