Chiral auxiliaries reactions

From the data available it is cleat that diasteteoselective reactions of type ll) are very useful for control over absolute stereochemistry, hut they requite stoichiometric amounts of the chiral auxiliary. Reactions of type 13), on the other hand, have so far... 

This is one big bonus of using a chiral auxiliary—it s much easier to purify diastereoisomers than enantiomers and a chiral auxiliary reaction necessarily produces diastereoisomeric products. 

Considerable work was done to induce chirality via chiral auxiliaries. Reactions with aromatic a-ketoesters like phenylglyoxylates 21 and electron-rich al-kenes like dioxoles 22 and furan 23 were particularly efficient (Scheme 6). Yields up to 99% and diastereoselectivities higher than 96% have been observed when 8-phenylmenthol 21a or 2-t-butylcyclohexanol 21b were used as chiral auxiliaries [14-18]. It should be noted that only the exoisomers 24 and 25 were obtained from the reaction of dioxoles 22. Furthermore, the reaction with furan 23 was regioselective. 24 were suitable intermediates in the synthesis of rare carbohydrate derivatives like branched chain sugars [16]. Other heterocyclic compounds like oxazole 28 [19] and imidazole 29 [20] derivatives as well as acyclic alkenes 30, 31, and 32 [14,15,21,22] were used as olefinic partners. Numerous cyclohexane derived alcohols [18,21-24] and carbohydrate derivatives [25] were used as chiral... 

Comparable results are obtained in radical additions to several C2-symmetric fumaric bisamidcs. 2,5-Dimcthylpyrrolidine14,15,2°, 2,5-bis(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine and 1,3 4,6-di-0-benzylidene-2,5-dideoxy-2,5-imino-L-idit21 are used as chiral auxiliaries. Reactions with cyclohexyl or tort-butyl radicals, generated by the mercury or the tin method, respectively, proceed with high levels of asymmetric induction, yielding essentially only one of the two possible products. 

Chiral I-acyl-2-alkyl-l,2-dihydropyridines.1 The useful 1,2-dihydropyridines can be prepared by reaction of Grignard reagents with the chloroformate 1 derived from reaction of (—)-8-phenylmenthol with 4-methoxy-3-(triisopropylsilyl)pyridinc. The bulky group at C, is essential for high diastcreosclectivity in this reaction, and the C4-mcthoxy group facilitates removal of the chiral auxiliary. Reaction of Grignard reagents with 1... 

Upon initial examination, how one could control chirality in a reaction where the product is an alkene (no new sp centers are formed) which is inherently achiral could be asked. Despite this impression, asymmetric variations of the Wittig reaction have been reported. One approach is to use a chiral auxiliary in the ester moiety of a phosphonate. The first example of a chiral Witting made use of menthol as a chiral auxiliary Reaction of the ketone 86 with the chiral HWE reagent 87 gave rise to 88. However, the levels of chiral induction were not reported. 

Asymmetric DieJs-Alder Reactions - Chiral Auxiliaries... 

The first practical method for asymmetric epoxidation of primary and secondary allylic alcohols was developed by K.B. Sharpless in 1980 (T. Katsuki, 1980 K.B. Sharpless, 1983 A, B, 1986 see also D. Hoppe, 1982). Tartaric esters, e.g., DET and DIPT" ( = diethyl and diisopropyl ( + )- or (— )-tartrates), are applied as chiral auxiliaries, titanium tetrakis(2-pro-panolate) as a catalyst and tert-butyl hydroperoxide (= TBHP, Bu OOH) as the oxidant. If the reaction mixture is kept absolutely dry, catalytic amounts of the dialkyl tartrate-titanium(IV) complex are suflicient, which largely facilitates work-up procedures (Y. Gao, 1987). Depending on the tartrate enantiomer used, either one of the 2,3-epoxy alcohols may be obtained with high enantioselectivity. The titanium probably binds to the diol grouping of one tartrate molecule and to the hydroxy groups of the bulky hydroperoxide and of the allylic alcohol... 

The most valuable characteristic of the Patemo-Buchi reaction is the ability to set multiple stereocenters in one reaction and the development of diastereocontrolled reactions has been a major theme of research concerning this reaction. Stereocontrol can be envisioned to spring from either the carbonyl or the alkene and be controlled by either the substrate directly or by a chiral auxiliary. Little success has been achieved in substrate-induced selection by the carbonyl the most successful results were produced by... 

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. ... 

Zincke-type salts derived from other aromatic nitrogen heterocycles also undergo Zincke reactions. The isoquinolinium salt 6 (Scheme 8.4.16) permitted incorporation of a phenyl ethylamine chiral auxiliary, providing salt 48. In this context and others (vide infra), Marazano and co-workers found that refluxing -butanol was a superior solvent system for the Zincke process. Additionally, the stereochemical integrity of the or-chiral amino fragment was reliably maintained. 

A -sulfinyl chiral auxiliaries have been used to prepare enantiopure tetrahydro-P-carbolines and tetrahydroisoquinolines in good yields under mild reaction conditions. Both enantiomers of V-p-toluenesulfinyltryptamine 46 could be readily prepared from the commercially available Andersen reagents.Compound 46 reacted with various aliphatic aldehydes in the presence of camphorsulfonic acid at -78 °C to give the A-sulfinyl tetrahydro-P-carbolines 47 in good yields. The major diastereomers were obtained after a single crystallization. Removal of the sulfinyl auxiliaries under mildly acidic conditions produced the tetrahydro-P-carbolines 48 as single enantiomers. 

Asymmetric reactions using nonnatural chiral auxiliaries with participation and formation of heterocycles 98YGK386. 

Nonlinear dependence between ee values of chiral auxiliary compound or ligand and product of reaction with participation or formation of heterocycle 98AG(E)2922. 

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. 

The landmark report by Winstein et al. (Scheme 3.6) on the powerful accelerating and directing effect of a proximal hydroxyl group would become one of the most critical in the development of the Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation reactions [11]. A clear syw directing effect is observed, implying coordination of the reagent to the alcohol before methylene transfer. This characteristic served as the basis of subsequent developments for stereocontrolled reactions with many classes of chiral allylic cycloalkenols and indirectly for chiral auxiliaries and catalysts. A full understanding of this phenomenon would not only be informative, but it would have practical applications in the rationalization of asymmetric catalytic reactions. 

Further examination of the chiral ketals reveals that the lone pairs available for reagent coordination are oriented either in a syw or an anti relationship to the neighboring methyl substituents. The influence of the chiral auxiliary over the reaction is now clear. If zinc coordination must occur proximal to the double bond. 

Hie use of chiral catalysts as an approach to enantiomer icaliy enriched products by means of coppet-mediated substitution reactions is covered in this chapter. Reactions in which a chiral auxiliary resides in the leaving group of the substrate w ill also he dealt with, since these reactions provide direct and efBcient routes to single enantiomers of the desired products. Most studies so far have been concerned with allylic substrates, with a new chiral center being produced in the course of a selec-... 

Most asymmetric induction processes with Chital auxiliaries involve a stereo-differentiating reaction that affords one diastereomet as the primary product To obtain the desired enantiomer, the Chiral auxiliary must be removed Highly dia-stereoselective reactions between otganocoppet reagents and allylic substrates with... 

Chiral Auxiliary that is Cleaved off afler the Reaction... 

Since most often the selective formation of just one stereoisomer is desired, it is of great importance to develop highly selective methods. For example the second step, the aldol reaction, can be carried out in the presence of a chiral auxiliary—e.g. a chiral base—to yield a product with high enantiomeric excess. This has been demonstrated for example for the reaction of 2-methylcyclopenta-1,3-dione with methyl vinyl ketone in the presence of a chiral amine or a-amino acid. By using either enantiomer of the amino acid proline—i.e. (S)-(-)-proline or (/ )-(+)-proline—as chiral auxiliary, either enantiomer of the annulation product 7a-methyl-5,6,7,7a-tetrahydroindan-l,5-dione could be obtained with high enantiomeric excess. a-Substituted ketones, e.g. 2-methylcyclohexanone 9, usually add with the higher substituted a-carbon to the Michael acceptor ... 

Scheme 5 details the asymmetric synthesis of dimethylhydrazone 14. The synthesis of this fragment commences with an Evans asymmetric aldol condensation between the boron enolate derived from 21 and trans-2-pentenal (20). Syn aldol adduct 29 is obtained in diastereomerically pure form through a process which defines both the relative and absolute stereochemistry of the newly generated stereogenic centers at carbons 29 and 30 (92 % yield). After reductive removal of the chiral auxiliary, selective silylation of the primary alcohol furnishes 30 in 71 % overall yield. The method employed to achieve the reduction of the C-28 carbonyl is interesting and worthy of comment. The reaction between tri-n-butylbor-... 

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