Diastereoselective kinetically-controlled

Excellent chemical yields, high regio- and, in several cases, high diastereoselectivities are observed. A correlation between enolate geometry and product stereochemistry is found, with (Z)-eno-lates producing ////// -adducts and (L )-cnolates yielding. vvw-adducts preferentially, if these reactions are performed with kinetic control (see Table 1, entries 1 -10)21 -23. 

Optically active y-alkoxycyclopentenones have become popular in the diastereoselective synthesis of hms-3,4-disubstituted cyclopentanones. The Michael addition to these cyclic enones catalyzed by sodium ethoxide in ethanol277 or by potassium tm-butoxide278 279 proceeds under kinetic control trans with respect to the y-substituent. 

A diastereoselective route to d.v-2,3-disubstituted cyclohexanones is based on the kinetically controlled protonation of the enolate obtained via the addition of an arylacetonitrile to 2-sub-stituted 2-cycloalkenones in THF or in THF/HMPA mixtures at — 70-0 °C 299,30°, see also refs 301, 302 and 403. 

When the cyclic enone is unsubstituted, but the resulting enolate is quenched with an electrophile under conditions of kinetic control the irons adduct is formed exclusively303. Particularly successful is the sequential Michael addition/enolate alkylation in diastereoselective routes to frans-a,/j-difunctionalized cycloalkanones and lactones304-308. The key steps in the synthesis of methyl ( + )-jasmonate (3)309-310 (syn/anti diastereoselection) and (-)-khushimone (4) (syn/anti and induced diastereoselection) illustrate this sequence311 (see also Section D. 1.1.1.3.). 

Lubineau and coworkers [18] have shown that glyoxal 8 (Ri = R2 = H), glyoxylic acid 8 (Ri = H, R2 = OH), pyruvic acid 8 (Ri = Me, R2 = OH) and pyruvaldehyde 8 (Ri = H, R2 = Me) give Diels-Alder reactions in water with poor reactive dienes, although these dienophiles are, for the most part, in the hydrated form. Scheme 6.6 illustrates the reactions with (E)-1,3-dimethyl-butadiene. The reaction yields are generally good and the ratio of adducts 9 and 10 reflects the thermodynamic control of the reaction. In organic solvent, the reaction is kinetically controlled and the diastereoselectivity is reversed. 

Unlike their thermal counterparts, these low-temperature procedures result in good diastereoselectivity, presumably because the reactions proceed under kinetic control. For example, while investigating a now defunct strategy aimed at heliquinomycin, Lindsey reports an exclusive cycloadduct 66 forms in 31% yield when the alcohol 35 and the oxazole are mixed together with f-butyl Grignard... 

C-Alkylations of l,4-dihydro-27/-pyrazino[2,l-A]quinazoline-3,6-diones at positions C-l and CM were studied in detail. Compounds of type 57 could be alkylated diastereoselectively at C-l, owing to the geometry of the piperazine ring, which is locked in a flat boat conformation with the R4 or R1 substituent in a pseudoaxial position to avoid steric interaction with the nearly coplanar C(6)-carbonyl group. Alkylation of 57 (R2 = Me, Bn, R4 = Me) in the presence of lithium hexamethyldisilazide (LHMDS) with benzyl and allyl halides resulted, under kinetic control, in the 1,4-trans-diastereomer 59 as the major product, with retention of the stereocenter at CM (Scheme 5). 

Representatives of the bridged sulfone system 70 have been subjected to ruthenium catalysed ring-closing metathesis reactions (Grubbs catalyst) and shown to afford, in low yields, a few selected cyclic dimers and trimers, of all the possibilities available. The diastereoselectivities observed were rationalised in terms of kinetic control involved with internal ruthenium/sulfonyl oxygen coordination . 

V. KINETICALLY CONTROLLED ALDOL DIASTEREOSELECTION ACHIRAL REACTION PARTNERS... 

Earlier studies had demonstrated that such enolates would participate in aldol condensations with aldehydes however, the stereochemical aspects of the reaction were not investigated (68). For the cases summarized in Table 25, the zirconium enolates were prepared from the corresponding lithium enolates (eq. [54]). Control experiments indicated that no alteration in enolate geometry accompanies this ligand exchange process, and that the product ratio is kinetically controlled (35). From the cases illustrated, both ( )-enolates (entries A-E) and (Z)-enolates (entries F-H) exhibit predominant kinetic erythro diastereoselection. Although a detailed explanation of these observations is clearly speculative, certain aspects of a probable... 

The first chapter in this volume is a particularly timely one given the recent surge of activity in natural product synthesis based upon stereocontrolled Aldol Condensations. D. A. Evans, one of the principal protagonists in this effort, and his associates, J. V. Nelson and T. R. Taber, have surveyed the several modem variants of the Aldol Condensation and discuss models to rationalize the experimental results, particularly with respect to stereochemistry, in a chapter entitled Stereoselective Aldol Condensations. The authors examine Aldol diastereoselection under thermodynamic and kinetic control as well as enantioselection in Aldol Condensations involving chiral reactants. 

In the latter reaction, remarkable examples of diastereoselectivity have been reported. Thus, the treatment of 7,7-dibromonorcarane 22 with n-butyllithium leads to exo-7-bromo-ewdo-7-lithiobicyclo[4.1.0]heptane23 exclusively, as shown by carboxylation (Scheme 8). It turns out that a slight excess of dibromonorcarane 22 relative to butyllithium is prerequisite to that high degree of stereoselectivity. The result is explained as follows the exo-bromine atom in 22 is exchanged first in a kinetically controlled reaction so that the ewrfo-bromo-exo-lithio-isomer 24 is formed. In a second step, an equilibration occurs by means of another bromine-lithium exchange, which takes place between 24 and the dibromonorcarane 22 (still present because used in excess). Thus, the thermodynamically... 

Stabilized hthiated sulfoximines (112) undergo highly diastereoselective Michael additions to cyclic enones at —78 °C under kinetically controlled conditions. At room temperature, the initially formed adducts (113) undergo intramolecular substitution of the sulfonimidoyl group, with inversion of configuration to afford the corresponding cyclopropanes (114).92... 

Ziegler149 has reported a highly efficient synthesis of the very similar M. avium serovar 21 trisaccharide hapten with attached linker-arm (89). The blockwise construction minimizes the manipulation of protecting groups and hence the number of steps in the overall synthesis. The synthesis featured two key operations (1) the kinetically controlled diastereoselective preparation from D-glucose of the... 

Significantly higher stereoselectivities were observed in the Lewis acid-promoted 1,4-additions. Kinetically controlled deprotonation/silylation of esters 33 followed by treatment of the resulting crude ketene silyl acetals 35 with TiCl4/Ti(Oi-Pr)4 (2 1) and DTBAD (1.25 equiv.) at -78 °C, gave the adducts 34 in good yields and excellent diastereoselectivities (Scheme 15 Table 3.2). 

Hoffmann has shown that diastereoselective bromine-lithium exchange may be achieved even in acyclic systems.118 Treatment of 138 with BuLi in the Trapp solvent mixture at -120 °C in the presence of acetone generates the epoxides 139 and 140 in a 94 6 ratio of diastereoisomers.119 120 The selectivity was found to depend on the organolithium used for the bromine-lithium exchange, and it must therefore be under kinetic control. 

The syn diastereoselectivity of the cyclisations most likely arises from kinetic control in which chelation of Sm(III) to the 1,3-dicarbonyl controls the orientation of the ketone prior to addition of the organosamarium (Scheme 5.79). However, thermodynamic control in which the diastereo-isomeric products equilibrate by a retro-aldol-aldol sequence may operate in... 

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