Diastereoselective cycloaddition chiral auxiliaries

The highly ordered cyclic TS of the D-A reaction permits design of diastereo-or enantioselective reactions. (See Section 2.4 of Part A to review the principles of diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity.) One way to achieve this is to install a chiral auxiliary.80 The cycloaddition proceeds to give two diastereomeric products that can be separated and purified. Because of the lower temperature required and the greater stereoselectivity observed in Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions, the best diastereoselectivity is observed in catalyzed reactions. Several chiral auxiliaries that are capable of high levels of diastereoselectivity have been developed. Chiral esters and amides of acrylic acid are particularly useful because the auxiliary can be recovered by hydrolysis of the purified adduct to give the enantiomerically pure carboxylic acid. Early examples involved acryloyl esters of chiral alcohols, including lactates and mandelates. Esters of the lactone of 2,4-dihydroxy-3,3-dimethylbutanoic acid (pantolactone) have also proven useful. 

The following cycloaddition reactions involve chiral auxiliaries and proceed with a good degree of diastereoselectivity. Provide a rationalization of the formation of the preferred product on the basis of a TS. 

Selenski investigated the use of chiral enol ether auxiliaries in order to adapt method F-H for enantioselective syntheses. After surveying a variety of substituted and unsubstituted enol ethers derived from a vast assortment of readily available chiral alcohols, she chose to employ enol ethers derived from trans-1,2-phenylcyclohexanol such as 73 and 74 (Fig. 4.37). These derivatives were found to undergo highly diastereoselective cycloadditions resulting in the formation of 75 and 76 in respective... 

FIGURE 4.37 Some examples of diastereoselective cycloadditions using chiral auxiliaries. 

Construction of the cyclopentane ring was accomplished by utilization of Trosf s Pd-mediated diastereoselective [3+2] trimethylenemethane (TMM) cycloaddition [4] on the cinnamate 5 having an Evans type chiral auxiliary [4b], The resulting diastereomeric mixture (3 1 at best) of 7a and 7b was separated by careful silica gel column chromatography (7a is less polar than 7b under normal phase). Puri-... 

The Davies group has described several examples of a rhodium-catalyzed decomposition of a diazo-compound followed by a [2+1] cycloaddition to give divinyl cyclopropanes, which then can undergo a Cope rearrangement. Reaction of the pyrrol derivative 6/2-51 and the diazo compound 6/2-52 led to the tropane nucleus 6/2-54 via the cyclopropane derivative 6/2-53 (Scheme 6/2.11) [201]. Using (S)-lactate and (R)-pari lolaclorie as chiral auxiliaries at the diazo compound, a diastereoselectivity of around 90 10 could be achieved in both cases. 

Diastereoselective intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of alkylidene-cyclopropyl nitrones provide spirocyclopropylisoxazolidines. These compounds have been shown to undergo either thermally induced ring expansion to octahydro[l]pyrindin-4-ones or to acid induced ring contraction into fS-lactams with concomitant loss of ethylene (Scheme 2.218) (710-716). Use of chiral auxiliaries, that is (L)-2-acetoxylactate can lead to enantiomerically enriched heterocycles (715). 

Two methods have been developed to provide enantiomerically enriched cycloadducts using the chromium-mediated [6 + 2]- and [6 + 4]-cycloadditions one involving a chiral resolution and the other involving the attachment of a chiral auxiliary to the triene. The lipase resolution method provides access to either enantiomer of the chromium complex, albeit with moderate enantiomeric excesses (Scheme 34).119 The [6 + 4]- and [6 + 2]-reactions of chiral substrates such as 116 which are available by the attachment of a removable chiral auxiliary (R ) to the triene moiety are highly diastereoselective (Equation (17)).120... 

Dipolar addition is closely related to the Diels-Alder reaction, but allows the formation of five-membered adducts, including cyclopentane derivatives. Like Diels-Alder reactions, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition involves [4+2] concerted reaction of a 1,3-dipolar species (the An component and a dipolar In component). Very often, condensation of chiral acrylates with nitrile oxides or nitrones gives only modest diastereoselectivity.82 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition between nitrones and alkenes is most useful and convenient for the preparation of iso-xazolidine derivatives, which can then be readily converted to 1,3-amino alcohol equivalents under mild conditions.83 The low selectivity of the 1,3-dipolar reaction can be overcome to some extent by introducing a chiral auxiliary to the substrate. As shown in Scheme 5-51, the reaction of 169 with acryloyl chloride connects the chiral sultam to the acrylic acid substrate, and subsequent cycloaddition yields product 170 with a diastereoselectivity of 90 10.84... 

Optically pure 1,3-allenedicarboxylate 110c possessing central and axial chirality was prepared from dimethyl acetonedicarboxylate by incorporation of menthol as a chiral auxiliary [98]. The [4+2]-cycloaddition reaction of 110c with cyclopentadiene in the presence of A1C13 proceeded with high diastereoselectivity to afford adduct 115. 

Using (-)-lOO [46] as a chiral auxiliary tethered to the enolether, one face of the alkene can be specifically blocked by a n-n interaction of the phenyl rest for the [2 r5+2 r ] cycloaddition with a ketene [47], resulting in the highly diastereoselective formation of the cyclobutanone 102 (Scheme 15). The observed regio- and stereoselectivity is in accord with the stereochemical predictions made on the basis of the Woodward-Hoffmann... 

Oppolzer sultam-like chiral auxiliary (e.g., Xc in 304) has been studied in Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions (Scheme 43) <2003JP0700>. The TiCU-promoted reaction of dienophile 304 and 1,3-cyclopentadiene 305 in DCM is complete within 18h and excellent diastereoselectivity of product 306 is observed. The same reaction in the absence of Lewis acid provides product 306 in very low yield. However, switching to trifluoroethanol as the solvent, the cycloaddition reaction proceeds to completion, albeit with slightly diminished levels of diastereoselectivity for Diels-Alder adduct 306. Surprisingly, the use of hexane as the solvent affords the opposite (23, J 31-diastereomer of 306 as the major product. 

The diastereoselective cycloaddition of 2-phenyl-4-dimethylamino-l-thia-3-azabuta-l,3-diene with a choice of dienophiles and in the presence of a Lewis acid provides a convenient route to 5,6-dihydro-4//-l,3-thiazines <2002TL6067, 2004T1827>. The more stable /ra r-adducts are produced exclusively. The approach using (4A)-3-acryloyl-4-benzyloxazolidin-2-one 198 provides access to the chiral 5,6-dihydro-4//-l,3-thiazine 199 <2004T1827>. The exceptional level of selectivity is only achieved when magnesium bromide is used. The chiral auxiliary was removed by reaction with lithium benzoxide to give the benzyl ester 200, and reaction with catalytic amount of samarium triflate and methanol provides the methyl ester 201 (Scheme 21). 2-Substituted-5,6-dihydro-l,3-thiazines are conveniently synthesized from nitriles or thiocyanates and 4-mercapto-2-methylbutan-2-ol to produce... 

The use of chiral auxiliaries to induce (or even control) diastereoselectivity in the cycloaddition of nitrile oxides with achiral alkenes to give 5-substituted isoxazolines has been investigated by a number of groups. With chiral acrylates, this led mostly to low or modest diastereoselectivity, which was explained in terms of the conformational flexibility of the vinyl-CO linkage of the ester (Scheme 6.33) (179). In cycloadditions to chiral acrylates (or acrylamides), both the direction of the facial attack of the dipole as well as the conformational preference of the rotamers need to be controlled in order to achieve high diastereoselection. Although the attack from one sector of space may well be directed or hindered by the chiral auxiliary, a low diastereomer ratio would result due to competing attack to the respective 7i-faces of both the s-cis and s-trans rotamers of the acrylate or amide. 

The formation of spirocyclopropanes from the reaction of diazodiphenylmethane and ( )-8-phenylmenthyl esters of acrylic acid and methyl fumarate occurred with a modest level of diastereofacial selectivity (136). In contrast, diastereoselectivities of 90 10 were achieved in the cycloadditions of diazo(trimethylsilyl)methane with acrylamides 65 derived from camphor sultam as the chiral auxiliary (137) (Scheme 8.16). Interestingly, the initial cycloadducts 66 afforded the nonconjugated A -pyrazolines 67 on protodesilylation the latter were converted into optically active azaproline derivatives 68. In a related manner, acrylamide 69 was converted into A -pyrazolines 70a,b (138). The major diastereoisomer 70a was used to synthesize indolizidine 71. The key step in this synthesis involves the hydrogenolytic cleavage of the pyrazoline ring. 

The use of chiral vinyl ethers in 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with nitrones allows for the subsequent removal and recovery of the chiral group. Using the chiral vinyl ether 197 and the cyclic nitrone 77, the cycloaddition proceeded with high diastereoselectivity (Scheme 12.56). The endo/exo-selectivity was not given in this communication by Carmthers et al. (313), but this is of minor importance for the final outcome of this work, since one of the chiral centers was destroyed in the conversion of 198 into the final product 199. The chiral auxiliary can by recovered in this reaction sequence, and 199 was obtained with an optical purity of >95% ee. 

The application of chiral auxiliary groups which can be removed after the cycloaddition has met with limited success. The chiral auxiliary can be attached to either the ketene or alkene moiety. In a study of dichloroketene cycloadditions with a series of enol ethers 18, to which a chiral alkoxy group is attached, diastereoselectivities ranged from 55 to 90%,n with the choice of chiral auxiliary being crucial to obtaining the desired diastereoselectivity. 

Scheme 26 Diastereoselective intramolecular cycloaddition (X = chiral auxiliary).

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