Cycloaddition reactions enantioselective syntheses

Tan B, Candeias NR, Barbas CE (2011) Core-Stracture-Motivaled Design of a Phosphine-Catalyzed [3-1-2] Cycloaddition Reaction Enantioselective Syntheses of Spirocyclopente-neoxindoles. J Am Chem Soc 133 4672... 

A series of chiral binaphthyl ligands in combination with AlMe3 has been used for the cycloaddition reaction of enamide aldehydes with Danishefsky s diene for the enantioselective synthesis of a chiral amino dihydroxy molecule [15]. The cycloaddition reaction, which was found to proceed via a Mukaiyama aldol condensation followed by a cyclization, gives the cycloaddition product in up to 60% yield and 78% ee. 

Schemes 16-19 present the details of the enantioselective synthesis of key intermediate 9. The retrosynthetic analysis outlined in Scheme 5 identified aldoxime 32 as a potential synthetic intermediate the construction of this compound would mark the achievement of the first synthetic objective, for it would permit an evaluation of the crucial 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. As it turns out, an enantioselective synthesis of aldoxime 32 can be achieved in a straightforward manner by a route employing commercially available tetronic acid (36) and the MEM ether of allyl alcohol (74) as starting materials (see Scheme 16).

Alkenylcarbene complexes react with in situ-generated iodomethyllithium or dibromomethyllithium, at low temperature, to produce cydopropylcarbene complexes in a formal [2C+1S] cycloaddition reaction. This reaction is highly diastereoselective and the use of chiral alkenylcarbene complexes derived from (-)-8-phenylmenthol has allowed the enantioselective synthesis of highly interesting 1,2-disubstituted and 1,2,3-trisubstituted cyclopropane derivatives [31] (Scheme 9). As in the precedent example, this reaction is supposed to proceed through an initial 1,4-addition of the corresponding halomethyllithium derivative to the alkenylcarbene complex, followed by a spontaneous y-elimi-nation of lithium halide to produce the final cydopropylcarbene complexes. 

N-donor ligand. The reaction appears to proceed via an acyclic iminoplatinum(II) intermediate that undergoes a subsequent intramolecular cyclization. Some mechanistic aspects of this versatile reaction have been elucidated.225,226 A4-l,2,4-oxadiazolines have been prepared by the [2+3] cycloaddition of various nitrones to coordinated benzonitrile in m-[PtCl2( D M SO)(PhCN)] precursors.227,228 Racemic and chiral [PtCl2(PhMeSO)(PhCN)] complexes have also been used in order to introduce a degree of stereoselectivity into the reaction, resulting in the first enantioselective synthesis of A4-l,2,4-oxadiazolines, which can be liberated from the complexes by the addition of excess ethane-1,2-diamine. 

The metal-catalyzed [5 + 2]-cycloaddition reaction of VCPs and 7t-systems provides a new concept for seven-membered ring construction that has been significantly advanced over the last decade in the areas of catalyst development, chemo-, diastereo-, and enantioselectivity, substrate scope, and applications to total synthesis. 

The Lewis acid-promoted [4+ 2]-cycloaddition reaction of the allenic ester 103 having a camphor-derived chiral auxiliary with cydopentadiene provided the adduct with excellent Jt-facial selection, leading to an enantioselective synthesis of (-)-/l-san-talene [92]. 

Nucleophilic additions to (cyclohexadienone)Fe(CO)3 complexes (218) occur in a dia-stereospecific fashion (Scheme 56)197. For example, the Reformatsky reaction of ketone (218a) affords a simple diasteromeric alcohol product19715. The reduction of (1-carbo-methoxycyclohexa-l,3-dien-5-one)Fe(CO)3 (218b) to give 219 has been utilized in the enantioselective synthesis of methyl shikimate. In a similar fashion, cycloadditions of (2-methoxy-5-methylenecyclohexa-l,3-diene)Fe(CO)3 (220) occur in a diastereospecific fashion198. 

Uncatalysed Diels-Alder reactions usually have to be carried out at relatively high temperatures (normally around 100 °C)73, often leading to undesired side reactions and retro-Diels-Alder reactions which are entropically favoured. The Diels-Alder reaction became applicable to sensitive substrates only after it was realized that Lewis acids (e.g. A Clg) are catalytically active56. As a consequence, Diels-Alder reactions can now be carried out at temperatures down to — 100°C85. The use of Lewis acid catalysts made the [4 + 2]-cycloaddition applicable to the enantioselective synthesis of many natural compounds51,86. Nowadays, Lewis acid catalysis is the most effective way to accelerate and to stereochemically control Diels-Alder reactions. Rate accelerations of ten-thousand to a million-fold were observed (Table 7, entries A and B). 

The initial work on the asymmetric [4-1-2] cycloaddition reactions of A -sulfinyl compounds and dienes was performed with chiral titanium catalysts, but low ee s were observed <2002TA2407, 2001TA2937, 2000TL3743>. A great improvement in the enantioselectivity for the reaction of AT-sulfinyl dienophiles 249 or 250 and acyclic diene 251 or 1,3-cyclohexadiene 252 was observed in the processes involving catalysis with Cu(ll) and Zn(ii) complexes of Evans bis(oxazolidinone) (BOX) ligands 253 and 254 <2004JOC7198> (Scheme 34). While the preparation of enantio-merically enriched hetero-Diels-Alder adduct 255 requires a stoichometric amount of chiral Lewis acid complex, a catalytic asymmetric synthesis of 44 is achieved upon the addition of TMSOTf. 

The use of chiral 2-alkylidene-l,3-dithiane 1,3-dioxides in asymmetric cycloaddition reactions has been demonstrated. A highly enantioselective synthesis of (—)-cispentacin by an intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition was reported (Scheme 52) <20020L1227, 20030BC684>. 

A number of workers have described the synthesis and cycloaddition reactions of oxazoline nitrone dipoles, (e.g., 361 and 362, Scheme 1.80) (413 17). A homochiral oxazoline nitrone derived from camphor has been used to great effect by Langlois and co-workers (418,419), from which they have prepared a number of natural targets through enantioselective cycloaddition reactions, including the antiviral carbocyclic nucleoside analogue (+)-carbovir (48) (Fig. 1.1, Section 1.3). 

Diastereoselective reactions of azomethine ylides with chiral vinyl sulfoxides have also been conducted (Scheme 12.35) (162-164). The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of (R)s-p-tolyl vinyl sulfoxide (106) with l-methyl-3-oxidopyridinum (105) gave three of the four possible diastereomers, and one of these isomers 107 was used for the enantioselective synthesis of the (75)-(—)-2a-tropanol 108 (162). 

Oxamborolidenes. There are noteworthy advances in the design, synthesis, and study of amino acid-derived oxazaborolidene complexes as catalysts for the Mukaiyama aldol addition. Corey has documented the use of complex 1 prepared from A-tosyl (S)-tryptophan in enantioselective Mukaiyama aldol addition reactions [5]. The addition of aryl or alkyl methyl ketones 2a-b proceeded with aromatic as well as aliphatic aldehydes, giving adducts in 56-100% yields and up to 93% ee (Scheme 8B2.1, Table 8B2.1). The use of 1-trimethylsilyloxycyclopentene 3 as well as dienolsilane 4 has been examined. Thus, for example, the cyclopentanone adduct with benzaldehyde 5 (R = Ph) was isolated as a 94 6 mixture of diastereomers favoring the syn diastereomer, which was formed with 92% ee, Dienolate adducts 6 were isolated with up to 82% ee it is important that these were shown to afford the corresponding dihydropyrones upon treatment with trifuoroacetic acid. Thus this process not only allows access to aldol addition adducts, but also the products of hetero Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions. 

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