Dialkylboron

The deprotonation of the (1-oxopropyl) group of these compounds is achieved either by treatment with lithium dialkylamides or by the use of dialkylboron triflates in the presence of trialkylamines. In each case, exclusive generation of the corresponding (Z)-cnoiate results. 

The enol acetates, in turn, can be prepared by treatment of the parent ketone with an appropriate reagent. Such treatment generally gives a mixture of the two enol acetates in which one or the other predominates, depending on the reagent. The mixtures are easily separable. An alternate procedure involves conversion of a silyl enol ether (see 12-22) or a dialkylboron enol ether (an enol borinate, see p. 560) to the corresponding enolate ion. If the less hindered enolate ion is desired (e.g., 126), it can be prepared directly from the ketone by treatment with lithium diisopropylamide in THE or 1,2-dimethoxyethane at —78°C. ... 

Boron enolates can be prepared by reaction of the ketone with a dialkylboron trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate) and a tertiary amine.16 Use of boron triflates and a bulky amine favors the Z-enolate. The resulting aldol products are predominantly the syn stereoisomers. 

The E-boron enolates of some ketones can be preferentially obtained by using dialkylboron chlorides.17... 

The general trend is that boron enolates parallel lithium enolates in their stereoselectivity but show enhanced stereoselectivity. There also are some advantages in terms of access to both stereoisomeric enol derivatives. Another important characteristic of boron enolates is that they are not subject to internal chelation. The tetracoordinate dialkylboron in the cyclic TS is not able to accept additional ligands, so there is no tendency to form a chelated TS when the aldehyde or enolate carries a donor substituent. Table 2.2 gives some typical data for boron enolates and shows the strong correspondence between enolate configuration and product stereochemistry. 

Dialkylboron enolates cannot accommodate an additional aldehyde ligand group and chelated TSs are not expected. When BF3 is used as the Lewis acid, chelation is... 

The introduction of substituents, which have a mesomeric effect and extend the chain of conjugation, at the a-C atom of nitronates leads to a shift of the absorption 260 to a maximum of 320 nm. It should be noted that the UV spectra of dimers of dialkylboron nitronates (entry 8) are virtually identical to those of other types of nitronates. 

In the dialkylboron derivative of nitroacetic ester (102a) adopting the Z- con-hguration, the tetracoordinated boron atom is bonded with the carbonyl group (NMR spectroscopic data) (230). Also, a complex of this product with pyridine (103) has the E- conhguration (272). Apparently, the reaction of (102a) with pyridine also proceeds through the cyclic transition state A (Scheme 3.82). 

A further step towards improved selectivity in aldol condensations is found in the work of David A. Evans. The work of Evans [3a] [14] is based in some early observations from Meyers laboratory [15] and the fact that boron enolates may be readily prepared under mild conditions from ketones and dialkylboron triflates [16]. Detailed investigations with Al-propionylpyrrolidine (31) indicate that the enolisation process (LDA, THE) affords the enolate 32 with at least 97% (Z>diastereoselection (Scheme 9.8). Finally, the observation that the inclusion of potential chelating centres enhance aldol diastereoselection led Evans to study the boron enolates 34 of A(-acyl-2-oxazolidones (33), which allow not only great diastereoselectivity (favouring the 5yn-isomer) in aldol condensations, but offer a possible solution to the problem of enantioselective total syntheses (with selectivities greater than 98%) of complex organic molecules (see below, 9.3.2), by using a recyclisable chiral auxiliary. 

TABLE 9.2. Aldol condensations of dialkylboron enolates with benzaldehyde... 

The central point of Evans s methodology is the induction of a 7t-enantiotopic facial differentiation through a conformationally rigid highly ordered transition state. Since the dialkylboron enolates of AT-acyl-2-oxazolidinones exhibit excellent syn-diastereoselectivity syn.anti >97 3) when reacted with a variety of aldehydes, Evans [14] studied the aldol condensation with the chiral equivalents 32 and 38. which are synthesised from fS)-valine (35) and the hydrochloride of (15, 2R)-norephedrine (36) (Scheme 9.11), respectively, and presently are commercially available. 

The is-boron enolates of some ketones can be preferentially obtained with the use of dialkylboron chlorides.17 The data in Table 2.3 pertaining to 3-pentanone and 2-methyl-3-pentanone illustrate this method. Use of boron triflates with a more hindered amine favors the Z-enolate. The contrasting stereoselectivity of the boron triflates and chlorides has been discussed in terms of reactant conformation and the stereoelectronic requirement for perpendicular alignment of the hydrogen being removed with the carbonyl group.18 The... 

Dialkylboron trifluoromethanesulfonates (Inflates) are particularly useful reagents for the preparation of boron enolates from carbonyl compounds, including ketones, thioesters and acyloxazoiidinones. Recentiy, the combination of dicylohexyiboron trifluoromethanesulfonate and triethyiamine was found to effect the enolization of carboxyiic esters. The boron-mediated asymmetric aldoi reaction of carboxyiic esters is particuiariy usefui for the construction of anti p-hydroxy-a-melhyl carbonyl units. The present procedure is a siight modification of that reported by Brown, et ai. ... 

Vinyloxyboranes (boron enolates) are obtained in quantitative yield by reaction of silyl enol ethers with dialkylboron triflates in CH2C12 at —22 . The products can be used for stereoselective aldol condensations.3 Example ... 

ALDOL CONDENSATION Cesium fluoride. Dialkylboron trifluoromethane-sulfonates. Dichlorobis(cyclopentadi-enyl)zirconium. Diisobutylaluminum phenoxide. 2,5-Dimethylphenylpropi-onate. DimetIiyl(phenyllhio)aIuminum. Lithium iodide. Triethylborane. Tri-methylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate. Triphenyltin chloride. TrisCdiethyI-amino)sulfonium difluorotrimethyl-siliconate. 

E)- or (Z)-Enol borinates. These ends are useful for stereoselective preparation of anti- or jyn-aldols, respectively, and have usually been obtained stereoselec-tively by variation of the alkyl group attached to boron triflates. They can also be prepared in essentially quantitative yield by reaction with dialkylboron chlorides at... 

Organoboranes do not normally react with carbonyl compounds in Grignard-like fashion with the exception of allylboranes. Aromatic aldehydes reacted with dialkylboron chloride derivatives in the presence of base to generate arylalkylmethanols in good yields (Equation (132)). On the other hand, reactions of aromatic aldehydes with dialkylboron chlorides in the presence of oxygen resulted in chlorination (Equation (133)).595... 

To achieve a stereoselective aldol reaction that does not depend on the structural type of the reacting carbonyl compounds, many efforts have been made to use boron enolates. Based on early studies by Mukaiyama et al.8a and Fenzl and K0ster,8b in 1979, Masamune and others reported a highly diastereoselective aldol reaction involving dialkylboron enolates (enol borinates)9... 

In the case of cyclohexanone the cyclopentylthexyl boron enolate must be employed to achieve high diastereoselectivity. See also Dialkylboron trifluoromethanesulfonates, this volume. 

Dialkylboron trifluoromethanesulfonates, RaBOTf. These triflates are prepared by reaction of trialkylboranes with triflic anhydride. 

Stereoselective aldot condensations. Mukaiyama et al. have reported that ketones are converted into vinyloxyboranes by reaction with dialkylboron triflates and a tertiary amine and that these enolates undergo regioselective aldol reactions with aldehydes (equation I). Mukaiyama used di-n-butylboryl triflate in combination... 

ALDOL CONDENSATION (+)-(R)-l-Amino-2- methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine. Boron trichloride. Dialkylboron tri-fluoromethanesulfonates. Dibenzyl-ammonium trifluoroacetate. Di- -butylboryl trifluoromethanesulfonate. Dichlorodiethylaminoborane. Diiso-propylaluminum phenoxide. Diisopropyl-aminomagnesium bromide. Lithium diisopropylamide. Morpholine-Camphoric acid. Proline. 

An effective control of the simple diastereoselectivity in boron-mediated aldol reactions of various propionate esters (162) was achieved by Abiko and coworkers (equation 45) °. They could show that under usual enolization conditions (dialkylboron triflate and amine) enol borinates are formed, which allowed the selective synthesis of 5yw-configured aldol products (Table 11). The enolization at low temperature (—78 °C) generated a (Z)-enolate selectively, which afforded mainly the syn diastereomer 164 after reaction with isobu-tyraldehyde (163), following a Zimmerman-Traxler transition-state. The anti diastereomer 164 instead was obtained only in small amounts (5-20%). 

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