Chiral quinine

Lammerhofer and Lindner reported on the enantiomer separation of derivatized amino acids and profens on a weak-anion-exchange(WAX)-type stationary phase based on chiral quinine carbamate selectors by p-CEC [54,55]. The separations were performed either under aqueous or [54] non-aqueous conditions [55]. The efficiency obtained in the p-CEC mode was about two to three time higher than with LC using an acetonitrile/buffer flow system [54], Very high resolutions and efficiencies were found for non-aqueous p-CEC. For example, the enantiomer separation of Fmoc-leucine was achieved in less than 10 min with a resolution Rs of 6.9 at about 100 000... 

Lammerhofer and Lindner [62] reported on the enantiomer separation of deriva-tized amino acids on an ODS-packed capillary with a chiral quinine-derived selector as buffer additive in two different modes (i) in an electrophoretically dominated mode at high electrolyte concentration and (ii) in an electroosmotically dominated mode at a low electrolyte concentration. Enantiomer separation in the electrophoretically dominated mode (i) leads to high efficieny (about two to three times higher than in LC) but to a moderate enantioselectivity (about the same as in LC). In the electroosmotically dominated mode (ii) a higher enantioselectivity but a lower efficiency (even inferior to LC) occurs. The separations can also been performed in a non-aque-ous buffered mobile phase. Pressurization (8-10 bar) of the flow system on both ends of the separation capillary was applied. 

It was based on an enantioselective domino Michael/hemiketalization reaction of ethyl 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetate and other trifluoromethyl-substituted nucleophiles with p,y-unsaturated a-ketoesters catalyzed by a chiral quinine-derived thiourea. 

In 2009, Bella et al. reported a formal [4 + 2] cycloaddition of substituted atylacetaldehydes and 2-cyclohexen-l-one which was promoted by a chiral thiazolidine catalyst and chiral quinine via enamine formation and spontaneous intramolecular aldol reaction (Scheme 2.4). The stereoselection depended upon the secondary amine catalyst, whereas the secondary catalyst was involved in the enhancement of the nucleophilicity of the derived enamine, probably through deprotonation of the carboxylic group. There... 

Scheme 2.4 Domino Michael-aldol reaction catalysed by a combination of a chiral thiazolidine catalyst and chiral quinine.

In 2012, Wang et al. reported a pseudo-three-component highly enantioselective domino Michael-Michael-Henty reaction catalysed by a combination of chiral diphenylprolinol trimethylsilyl ether and a chiral quinine-derived thiourea. The reaction occurred between aliphatic aldehydes and two equivalents of nitroalkenes, providing the corresponding hexasubstituted chiral cyclohexanols in moderate to good yields and dia-stereoselectivities of up to 60% de, combined with generally excellent enantioselectivities ranging from 96 to >99% ee (Scheme 2.23). The authors... 

A chiral quinine-derived squaramide catalysed the highly enantioselective Michael addition of malononitrile to chalcones. The reactions take place at a very low catalyst loading (0.5 mol%) and provide the Michael adducts with high yields and good enan-tioselectivities (up to 96% ee). Chiral bifunctional squaramides have also been used as multiple hydrogen-bond donor-acceptor organocatalysts for the asymmetric Michael addition of nitroolefins to 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds. ... 

Ketene can also be added to trihalosubstituted aldehydes or ketones (12) to form 4-trihalomethyloxetanones. If this addition is performed in the presence of optically active bases such as quinine [130-95-0] chiral lactones are obtained (41,42). 

Chinchona alkaloids, such as quinine, are readily available quinuclidine chiral bases which have been used extensively in catalytic Michael additions239 243. Methy 1-2,3-dihydro-1-oxo-l/f-in-dene-2-carboxylate (1) is most frequently used as the Michael donor in these studies. Enantiose-lectivities as high as 76% are reached in the additions to 3-buten-2-one. Modest enantioselec-tivities (< 67%) were also obtained with ethyl 2-oxo-l-cyclohexanecarboxylate and methyl l,3-dihydto-3-oxo-l-isobcnzol urancarboxylate244 245. 

Many racemic mixtures can be separated by ordinary reverse phase columns by adding a suitable chiral reagent to the mobile phase. If the material is adsorbed strongly on the stationary phase then selectivity will reside in the stationary phase, if the reagent is predominantly in the mobile phase then the chiral selectivity will remain in the mobile phase. Examples of some suitable additives are camphor sulphonic acid (10) and quinine (11). Chiral selectivity can also be achieved by bonding chirally selective compounds to silica in much the same way as a reverse phase. A example of this type of chiral stationary phase is afforded by the cyclodextrins. 

Sulfoxides without amino or carboxyl groups have also been resolved. Compound 3 was separated into enantiomers via salt formation between the phosphonic acid group and quinine . Separation of these diastereomeric salts was achieved by fractional crystallization from acetone. Upon passage through an acidic ion exchange column, each salt was converted to the free acid 3. Finally, the tetra-ammonium salt of each enantiomer of 3 was methylated with methyl iodide to give sulfoxide 4. The levorotatory enantiomer was shown to be completely optically pure by the use of chiral shift reagents and by comparison with a sample prepared by stereospecific synthesis (see Section II.B.l). The dextrorotatory enantiomer was found to be 70% optically pure. 

Mikolajczyk and coworkers have summarized other methods which lead to the desired sulfmate esters These are asymmetric oxidation of sulfenamides, kinetic resolution of racemic sulfmates in transesterification with chiral alcohols, kinetic resolution of racemic sulfinates upon treatment with chiral Grignard reagents, optical resolution via cyclodextrin complexes, and esterification of sulfinyl chlorides with chiral alcohols in the presence of optically active amines. None of these methods is very satisfactory since the esters produced are of low enantiomeric purity. However, the reaction of dialkyl sulfites (33) with t-butylmagnesium chloride in the presence of quinine gave the corresponding methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl and n-butyl 2,2-dimethylpropane-l-yl sulfinates (34) of 43 to 73% enantiomeric purity in 50 to 84% yield. This made available sulfinate esters for the synthesis of t-butyl sulfoxides (35). 

Bohman and Allenmark resolved a series of sulphoxide derivatives of unsaturated malonic acids of the general structure 228. The classical method of resolution via formation of diastereoisomeric salts with cinchonine and quinine has also been used by Kapovits and coworkers " to resolve sulphoxides 229, 230, 231 and 232 which are precursors of chiral sulphuranes. Miko/ajczyk and his coworkers achieved optical resolution of sulphoxide 233 by utilizing the phosphonic acid moiety for salt formation with quinine. The racemic sulphinylacetic acid 234, which has a second centre of chirality on the a-carbon atom, was resolved into pure diastereoisomers by Holmberg. Racemic 2-hydroxy- and 4-hydroxyphenyl alkyl sulphoxides were separated via the diastereoisomeric 2- or 4-(tetra-0-acetyl-D-glucopyranosyloxy)phenyl alkyl sulphoxides 235. The optically active sulphoxides were recovered from the isolated diastereoisomers 235 by deacetylation with base and cleavage of the acetal. Racemic 1,3-dithian-l-oxide 236... 

Taking Tomioka s pioneering work [8] as a precedent, we have screened 13-amino alcohols as chiral modifiers [9] in the nucleophilic addition of lithium 2-pyridinylacetylide 6 to the pMB protected ketimine 5. We were pleased to discover that when 5 was treated with a mixture prepared from 1.07 equiv each of quinine and 2-ethynylpyridine by addition of 2.13 equiv of n-BuLi in THF at -40 to -20 °C, the desired adduct 19 was obtained in 84% yield with maximum 64% ee. Soon after, we found selection of the nitrogen protective group had great influence on the outcome of the asymmetric addition and the ANM (9-anthranylmethyl)... 

In the presence of benzylamine, which coordinates trans to an active site, and quinine, the noncoordinated chiral component, optical purities up to 80% ee were again attained for hydrogenation of benzil. Convincing evidence was presented for the mechanism outlined in Eqs. (56)-(58), where L is the macrocyclic ligand, Q is quinine, and R = Ph (benzylamine, and charges of the complexes are omitted) ... 

The cobalt complex 37 was used in combination with quinine as a chiral coordinating base to hydrogenate l,2-diphenyl-2-propene-l-one in 49% ee (Fig. 29.22) [50]. However, no further studies of this type of catalyst were reported. 

The first attempt to effect the asymmetric cw-dihydroxylation of olefins with osmium tetroxide was reported in 1980 by Hentges and Sharpless.54 Taking into consideration that the rate of osmium(VI) ester formation can be accelerated by nucleophilic ligands such as pyridine, Hentges and Sharpless used 1-2-(2-menthyl)-pyridine as a chiral ligand. However, the diols obtained in this way were of low enantiomeric excess (3-18% ee only). The low ee was attributed to the instability of the osmium tetroxide chiral pyridine complexes. As a result, the naturally occurring cinchona alkaloids quinine and quinidine were derived to dihydroquinine and dihydroquinidine acetate and were selected as chiral... 

For a similar series of chalcone derivatives the use of aqueous sodium hypochlorite in a two phase system (with toluene as the organic solvent) and the quinine derivative (32) as a chiral phase-transfer catalyst, produces epoxides with very good enantiomeric excesses and yields1981. 

Volume 75 concludes with six procedures for the preparation of valuable building blocks. The first, 6,7-DIHYDROCYCLOPENTA-l,3-DIOXIN-5(4H)-ONE, serves as an effective /3-keto vinyl cation equivalent when subjected to reductive and alkylative 1,3-carbonyl transpositions. 3-CYCLOPENTENE-l-CARBOXYLIC ACID, the second procedure in this series, is prepared via the reaction of dimethyl malonate and cis-l,4-dichloro-2-butene, followed by hydrolysis and decarboxylation. The use of tetrahaloarenes as diaryne equivalents for the potential construction of molecular belts, collars, and strips is demonstrated with the preparation of anti- and syn-l,4,5,8-TETRAHYDROANTHRACENE 1,4 5,8-DIEPOXIDES. Also of potential interest to the organic materials community is 8,8-DICYANOHEPTAFULVENE, prepared by the condensation of cycloheptatrienylium tetrafluoroborate with bromomalononitrile. The preparation of 2-PHENYL-l-PYRROLINE, an important heterocycle for the synthesis of a variety of alkaloids and pyrroloisoquinoline antidepressants, illustrates the utility of the inexpensive N-vinylpyrrolidin-2-one as an effective 3-aminopropyl carbanion equivalent. The final preparation in Volume 75, cis-4a(S), 8a(R)-PERHYDRO-6(2H)-ISOQUINOLINONES, il lustrates the conversion of quinine via oxidative degradation to meroquinene esters that are subsequently cyclized to N-acylated cis-perhydroisoquinolones and as such represent attractive building blocks now readily available in the pool of chiral substrates. 

In this procedure, quinine is oxidatively degraded to meroquinene esters that are subsequently cyclized to N-acylated cis-decahydroisoquinolones in excellent overall yield, while maintaining the cis stereochemistry at the ring juncture. Furthermore, with the commercial availability of quinine, high overall yields, and ease of isolations, meroquinene and subsequent products are attractive members of a practical "chiral pool . 

Quinine and quinidine, as well as cinchonidine and cinchonine, are diastereo-meric pairs. However, at the critical sites—the P-hydroxyamine portions of the molecules—they are enantiomeric. Thus if quinine is used as the chiral catalyst in an asymmetric transformation (i.e., with one enantiomer being formed in excess), the other enantiomer is formed in excess when quinidine is used. Table 2 gives a representative example, the thiol addition reaction (19). 

It is of some historical interest that Kiliani s cyanohydrin synthesis (24) enabled Emil Fischer (25) to carry out the first asymmetric synthesis. Lapworth (26) used this base-catalyzed nucleophilic 1,2-addition reaction in one of the first studies of a reaction mechanism. Bredig (27,28) appears to have been the first to use quinine (29) in this reaction as the chiral basic catalyst. More recently, others (20) have used basic polymers to catalyze the addition of cyanide to aldehydes. The structure of quinine has been known since 1908 (30). Yet it is of critical importance that Prelog s seminal work on the mechanism of this asymmetric transformation (eq. [4]) could not have begun (16) until the configuration of quinine was established in 1944 (31,32). 

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