Davis oxaziridine reagents enantioselective oxidation

Enantioselective oxidation using Davis chiral oxaziridine reagents is not as well developed as its diastereoselective counterpart. However, a number of simple enolates have been... 

The enantioselective chemical and enzymatic oxidations of sulfides [86, 94] have also received many interesting developments. High e.e. values have been obtained independently by Kagan [103,104] and Modena [105] via modified Sharpless reagents and by Davis s group [106], which used various chiral oxaziridines. 

Acetalization of thiochroman-3-one gives a 1 1 diastereomeric mixture and subsequent oxidation with Davis reagent, W-(phenylsulfonyl)(3,3-dichlorocamphoryl)oxaziridine, yielded the sulfoxides each with a 4 1 enantioselectivity. Chiral chromatographic separation of the diastereomers preceded isolation of the major enantiomers. (3-Elimination and isomerization of the double bond then produced the individual thiochromene 1-oxide diastereomers. The generation of an a-sulfinyl carbanion effects the cleavage of one of the acetal C-O bonds with the protected diol released in a final ozonolysis step. The stereochemical results indicate that it is the C-O bond syn to the sulfoxide function that is cleaved (Scheme 63) <1996TA29>. 

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