Chiral auxiliary also camphor sultam

Aldol reactions using chiral auxiliaries are popular as the stereochemical outcome is usually highly predictable and, as such, they provide a reliable method for the incorporation of adjacent stereocenters. The oxazolidinone-based imides 36 and (ent)-36 are the most commonly employed, and these lead to syn aldol products with high levels of stereocontrol [20]. The reaction can be extended to include a variety of a-heteroatom functionality as in 37 (Scheme 9-13) [21]. Numerous examples of the use of these auxiliaries in the synthesis of polypropionate natural products have been reported. Many related auxiliaries are also available and the camphor-based sultam 38 is notable [22]. 

Chelation is also thought to play an important part in directing the facial selectivity of cycloadditions with the camphor sultam auxiliary. A variety of dienes can be used and adducts are obtained with very high diastereomeiic excesses. Both inter-and intramolecular cycloaddition reactions are amenable to the use of a chiral auxiliary. An intramolecular example is illustrated in Scheme 3.93, in which the diene and dienophile are tethered and in which cycloaddition leads to predominantly one of the two diastereomeric trans-fusQd bicyclic (endo) products. The dienophile is thought to adopt the s-cis conformation, with the aluminium atom complexed to the carbonyl and one of the two sulfone oxygen atoms. 

Oppolzer s camphor-based sultams 92 proved itself as an efficient, robust auxiliary for enolate amination with 1-chloro-l-nitroso cyclohexane 486 as an electrophile. Thus, sultams 92 were first deprotonated with NaHMDS, and to the sodium enolates thus formed was added a solution of the blue nitrosochloride 486. Decolorization occurred immediately, and the mixture was quenched with hydrochloric acid to give hydroxylamines 487, in all cases as essentially pure diastereomers. The reductive cleavage of the nitrogen-oxygen bond was achieved with zinc dust to yield a-aminoacyl sultams 488. By mild hydrolysis with lithium hydroxide, the chiral auxiliary 91 was removed and recovered under concomitant formation of a-amino acids 490. Any racemization was avoided by applying this procedure, even in the case of the labile substrates with R equals a phenyl or / r -methoxyphenyl substituent. On the other hand, the auxiliary could be cleaved at the stage of hydroxylamines 487, so that not only a-amino acids 490 but also a-hydroxyamino acids 489 became available with excellent enantiomeric purity (Scheme 4.103) [232]. 

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). 

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