Crotylsilanes, reaction with acetals

Optically active crotylsilane 22 functions as a chiral carbon nucleophile in TMSOTf-catalyzed reactions with acetals giving homoallylic ethers 23 in high diastereo- and enantioselectivities (equation 14)58,59. 

Panek and co-workers have demonstrated that crotylsilanes 217 and 343 react with a variety of electrophiles including aldehydes, a, ff-unsaturated ketones, acetals and imines under appropriate activation conditions (usually Lewis acidic) to form homoallylic ethers [149, 261], homoallylic alcohols [58, 150, 151], tetrahy-drofurans [262, 263], cyclopentanes [264], pyrrolidines and homoallylic amines [265] with high levels of enantio- and diastereoselectivity [12]. This review will focus on the reactions of crotylsilanes 217 with Lewis acid-activated acetals and aldehydes, and the application of these reactions to the synthesis of polypropionate natural products [266-271]. 

The stereochemistry of the reaction of crotylsilanes with acetals under Lewis acid catalysis was studied by Sakurai and coworkers78 (equation 73). It was found that with... 

Reaction of crotylsilanes with aryl acetals Panek and Yang1 have extended the Noyori reaction of allylsiianes with acetals catalyzed by trimcthylsilyl triflate (10,439-440) to optically active (E)-crotylsilanes, such as ar-methoxy-/ -(dimcthylphcnyl-silyl)-(E)-hexenoatcs (1). These (K)-crotylsilanes are available by lreland-Claisen ester rearrangement (6,276-277) of optically active vinylsilancs (equation 1 and 11). 

Zhu and Panek s total synthesis [148] is described in Scheme 89. After conversion of aldehyde 609 to di-benzyl acetal, treatment with chiral crotylsilane 610 afforded l,2-5y -611 with high stereo- and enantioselectivity. The oxidative cleavage of the double bond and subsequent aldol reaction with silyl ketene acetal 612 provided 613, which was converted into a,P-unsaturated ester 614 via Wittig olelination. The C8 methyl group was stereoselectively introduced by treatment with dimethylcuprate in the presence of TMSCl. DIB AH treatment differentially reduced the C3 and CIO esters to alcohol and aldehyde, respectively. Protection of the alcohol as silyl ether followed by the Wittig reaction afforded 615. In a manner similar to Danishefsky s synthesis [142d], an inteimolecular Suzuki... 

A combined experimental and computational approach has been undertaken to identify the origin of syn/anti diastereoselectivity in two types of crotylation reactions of aldehydes and ketones (i) multi-component crotylations of simple aldehydes/ketones and (ii) acetal substitution reactions of aldehyde dimethyl acetals with E- and Z-configured crotyltrimethylsilane.175 The stereochemical outcome is nearly identical in the two reactions, and the computational results suggest that this is due to near identical mechanisms an SN1 process involving attack of O-methyl-substituted carboxenium ions by crotylsilane. 

The total synthesis of (+)-Macbecin I 78 [39] began with aldehyde 73, prepared via the addition of optically pure crotylsilane onto a benzylic acetal, which underwent an SMS reaction to give ester 75 in a 12 1 syn/anti ratio. Oxidative cleavage of the double bond, Wittig olefination of the resulting aldehyde and a reduction-oxidation sequence yielded a,/ -unsaturated aldehyde 76. A second SMS reaction was then performed leading to polyether 77 (dr > 20 1) that contains all the chiral centers of (+)-Macbecin I 78, Scheme 13.31. 

Allyltriorganosilanes react with activated C-N double bonds such as iminium salts and Lewis acid-coordinated imines at the y-position to give homoallylamines.14,118 For example, in the presence of BF3, iV-acylimines generated in situ by the reaction of aldehydes or acetals with carbamates are efficiently allylated with allyltrimethylsilanes (Equation (26)).119,119a,12° The use of homochiral crotylsilanes such as 20 leads to highly diastereo- and enantioselective synthesis of homoallylamines (Equation (27)). a Allenylation of the iV-acylimines can be performed with propargylsi lanes. 

Solid-supported synthesis has rapidly emerged as an important strategy in synthetic organic chemistry. Solid-phase methodology is aimed at the direct synthesis of libraries of molecularly diverse compounds for biological evaluation in lead discovery. The asymmetric addition of polymer-supported chiral crotylsilanes to acetals and allylation of polymer-bound acetals linked through an ester with the chiral crotylsilanes has been investigated [44d] la can be employed in these crotylation reactions and results in the formation of polymer-supported homoallylic esters with diastereoselec-tivity similar to that of solution-phase reactions. 

Panek has reported the reactions of chiral crotylsilanes, e.g. (S)-217c, with a variety of achiral acetals, resulting in the formation of homoallylic ethers 348 with high enantio- (>95% ee) and variable diastereoselectivities (Table 11-20) [149, 261]. The acetals can be formed in situ from the corresponding aldehydes via treatment with TMSOBn or TMSOMe in the presence of catalytic TMSOTf. 

The [3+2] cycloaddition of allylsilanes is applicable to imines and iminium salts [419, 484, 485], Highly substituted pyrrolidines can be synthesized with high diastereo and enantio control by reaction of homochiral crotylsilanes with carbon-nitrogen double bond generated in situ from acetals and methyl carbamate (Scheme 10.174) [419]. The cycloaddition to N-tosylaldimines of aromatic aldehydes proceeds with excellent 2,4-ds selectivity whereas the stereoselectivity with aliphatic aldimines is rather low [484]. With N-tosylaldimines, fhe formation of [2+2] adducts is not observed (vide infra). 

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