Cycloaddition of nitronic esters

A newer method for the preparation of nitronic esters, namely utilizing the 0-trimethyl-silyl ester, has been reported and these are prepared by the reaction of alkylnitro compounds and A,A-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide. These nitronic esters also undergo cycloaddition with alkenes to produce isoxazolidines (equation 54) (74MIP41601,74DOK109,78ACS(B)ll8). 

Steroidal alkene (531a) reacted with a nitronic ester at 14 000 atmospheres to produce an isoxazolidine (532a) (80IZV1893), 

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There is no comprehensive review on the chemistry of isoxazolidines except for the specific aspect of the nitrone-olefin cycloaddition (1964)14 and on the cycloaddition of nitronic esters with olefins (1969).13 This review will cover the chemistry of isoxazolidines in the literature up to May 1974. 

The influence of electronic factors on the regioselective cycloadditions of nitrones (551), and (583) to (585) to acrylates has been demonstrated by using dipolarophiles with electrophilic substituents at the P-carbon of the alkene in y-bromo a, 3-unsaturated esters and lactones (774) and in ethyl 2-hydroperfluoro-2-alkenoates (586) (775). The reactions of enoates (586) with nitrones are regio-specific and afford isoxazolidines with the CC>2Et and R/, groups in C-4 and C-5... 

Recently, dipolarophile 1)13 (fumaronitrile) (777) has been used in the synthesis of indolizine lactone (677). Both, intermolecular and intramolecular cycloadditions were studied. Intermolecular 1,3-cycloaddition of nitrone (671) to D13 led to the formation of isoxazolidine (672). Subsequent deprotection and esterification of the obtained alcohol (673) with (674) gave isoxazolidine (675) in 65% yield. Ester (675), when refluxed in xylene for 10 min, after elimination of fumaronitrile by cyclo-reversion, underwent spontaneously intramolecular cycloaddition to give the tricyclic cycloadduct (676) in 84% yield (Scheme 2.291). 

The 1,2,4-diazaarsoles are colorless oils or crystals. The unsubstituted compound is deprotonated by butyllithium and subsequently alkylated or acylated at N-1 <86TL2957>. The 1-acyl derivatives (9) (R = Me, Ph) readily undergo a regiospecific cycloaddition of nitrones, nitrile oxides and diazoacetic esters (Scheme 1). The cycloaddition of diphenyl nitrile imine is more general in respect to the 1-substituent (R = H, Me, Ph, COMe). The cycloreversion of the adduct (10) at higher temperatures provides an in situ access to the 1,3-diphenyl diazaarsole (11) which immediately enters another cycloaddition (Scheme 2) <86TL2957>. 

Isoxazolidines result from 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of nitrone or nitrone esters and alkenes (see Equation (1)) (95PHC179). 

Nitrone-Nitrile Oxide Cycloaddition. Unsaturated sugars have been used for the simultaneous formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-oxygen bonds in a cir-relation. One of the best ways to achieve this transformation is the cycloaddition of nitrone or nitrile oxides. The cycloaddition of nitrones with olefins has been reviewed [133]. The regioselec-tivity is almost complete when using activated double bonds, such as enone, enelactone (see compound 98, Scheme 35), or esters. 

Asymmetric 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones to ketene acetals is effectively catalyzed by chiral oxazaborolidines derived from N-tosyl-L-a-amino acids to afford 5,5-dialkoxyisoxa-zolidines with high regio- and stereoselectivity [70] (Eq. 8A.46). Hydrolysis of the N-O bond of the resulting chiral adducts under mild conditions yields the corresponding [1-amino esters quantitatively. 

Tufariello and Tegeler18 have described a high-yield synthesis of the quinoliz-idine (11) by cycloaddition of nitrone (9) and the a/3-unsaturated ester (10) and then reduction (Scheme 1). The ester (10) was prepared conveniently from but-3-en-l-ol by ozonolysis of the tetrahydropyranyl ether followed by a Wittig reaction on the resultant aldehyde. The quinolizidine (11) was converted into lupinine (12) by a conventional procedure. 

Kobayashi et al. found that lanthanide triflates were excellent catalysts for activation of C-N double bonds —activation by other Lewis acids required more than stoichiometric amounts of the acids. Examples were aza Diels-Alder reactions, the Man-nich-type reaction of A-(a-aminoalkyl)benzotriazoles with silyl enol ethers, the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones to alkenes, the 1,2-cycloaddition of diazoesters to imines, and the nucleophilic addition reactions to imines [24], These reactions are efficiently catalyzed by Yb(OTf)3. The arylimines reacted with Danishefsky s diene to give the dihydropyridones (Eq. 14) [25,26], The arylimines acted as the azadienes when reacted with cyclopentadiene, vinyl ethers or vinyl thioethers, providing the tet-rahydroquinolines (Eq. 15). Silyl enol ethers derived from esters, ketones, and thio-esters reacted with N-(a-aminoalkyl)benzotriazoles to give the /5-amino carbonyl compounds (Eq. 16) [27]. The diastereoselectivity was independent of the geometry of the silyl enol ethers, and favored the anti products. Nitrones, prepared in situ from aldehydes and N-substituted hydroxylamines, added to alkenes to afford isoxazoli-dines (Eq. 17) [28]. Addition of diazoesters to imines afforded CK-aziridines as the major products (Eq. 18) [29]. In all the reactions the imines could be generated in situ and the three-component coupling reactions proceeded smoothly in one pot. 

Isoxazolidin-5-ones 549 can be prepared by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones and ketenes or ynolates or, alternatively, by cyclization of 3-(hydroxyamino)propanoates 550 in turn obtained by addition of ketene acetals to nitrones or by Michael addition of hydroxylamine derivatives to a,/3-unsaturated esters (Scheme 132). 

Keto aldehyde 6 should be easily formed from lactam acetal ester 7, which should be readily available from isoxazolidine 8. The latter can be constructed by a convergent 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrone 9 with ethyl acrylate. This strategy to spirocyclic lactams is precedented with nitrones derived from A -benzylhydroxylamine [15]. 

Jakowiecki, J. Loska, R. Makosza, M. S3mthesis of a-trifluoromethyl-P-lactams and esters of P-amino acids via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones to fluoroalkenes. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 75(14), 5436-5441. 

The effect of the addition of Lewis acid upon the stereoselectivity of cycloaddition of chiral nitrones 3a and 34 to electron-rich alkene, with ethyl vinyl ether and the further transformation of so-prepared isoxazoli-dine 36b to new fi-amino acid ester 40, has been also investigated by the same team (Fig. 10). The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrone 3a with ethyl vinyl ether imder AlMes and Et2AlCl catalysis proceeded diastereoselectively and finished at - 8 °C over 20 h, providing only two diastereoisomers 35a and 36a in a ratio of 90 10 with erythro-cis 35a predominant, although four diastereoisomers are possible. Indeed, cycloaddition in the absence of any Lewis acids proceeded very slowly with excess of ethyl vinyl ether at room temperature over 14 days to give a mixture of all four diastereoisomers 35-38 with a considerable decrease of the stereoselectivity in a ratio of 59 12 14 15, although erythro-cis 35a was still the major adduct. The 1,3-... 

The intramolecular [3 - - 2] cycloaddition of nitronates tethered at C(6) with a disubstituted dipolarophile (unsaturated ester) through different tether lengths has also... 

Other approaches to (36) make use of (37, R = CH ) and reaction with a tributylstannyl allene (60) or 3-siloxypentadiene (61). A chemicoen2ymatic synthesis for both thienamycia (2) and 1 -methyl analogues starts from the chiral monoester (38), derived by enzymatic hydrolysis of the dimethyl ester, and proceeding by way of the P-lactam (39, R = H or CH ) (62,63). (3)-Methyl-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropanoate [80657-57-4] (40), C H qO, has also been used as starting material for (36) (64), whereas 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of a chiral nitrone with a crotonate ester affords the oxa2ohdine (41) which again can be converted to a suitable P-lactam precursor (65). 

The enantioselective inverse electron-demand 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions of nitrones with alkenes described so far were catalyzed by metal complexes that favor a monodentate coordination of the nitrone, such as boron and aluminum complexes. However, the glyoxylate-derived nitrone 36 favors a bidentate coordination to the catalyst. This nitrone is a very interesting substrate, since the products that are obtained from the reaction with alkenes are masked a-amino acids. One of the characteristics of nitrones such as 36, having an ester moiety in the a position, is the swift E/Z equilibrium at room temperature (Scheme 6.28). In the crystalline form nitrone 36 exists as the pure Z isomer, however, in solution nitrone 36 have been shown to exists as a mixture of the E and Z isomers. This equilibrium could however be shifted to the Z isomer in the presence of a Lewis acid [74]. 

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