Diastereoselective Reactions of Chiral Acetals

Numerous other nucleophiles participate in highly diastereoselective reactions with chiral acetals (Scheme 6.9). A few selected examples include the introduction of acetylene [30] and of cyanide [31] to give the chiral pro-pargylic alcohol 45 and the optically active cyanohydrins 46 and 47, respectively. Furthermore, Alexakis and Mangenay observed that diastereoselective acetal cleavages can be carried out with organocuprates to give 48 with 95 5 diastereoselectivity [32]. 

Chiral acetals/ketals derived from either (R,R)- or (5,5 )-pentanediol have been shown to offer considerable advantages in the synthesis of secondary alcohols with high enantiomeric purity. The reaction of these acetals with a wide variety of carbon nucleophiles in the presence of a Lewis acid results in a highly diastereoselective cleavage of the acetal C-0 bond to give a /1-hydroxy ether, and the desired alcohols can then be obtained by subsequent degradation through simple oxidation elimination. Scheme 2-39 is an example in which H is used as a nucleophile.97... 

While reaction of the acetate 40 as well as the acetyl- and phthalimide derivatives of chiral amine (41b and 41c) proceeded with erythro diastereoselectivity (in accordance with the classical cis effect, minimization of 1,3-allyhc strain) (Table 6, entries 8, 10, 11), for the allylic alcohols 39, primary allyhc amine 41a, silyl enol ethers 42 and enol ether 43 threo selectivity was observed (Table 6, entries 1-7, 9, 12-14) (see also Scheme 24). For allyhc alcohols with an alkyl group R cis to the substituent carrying the hydroxyl group, diastereoselectivity was high (Table 6, entries 1-7) in contrast, stereoselection was low for allylic alcohols which lack such an R cis) substituent (substrates 39h and 39i, see Figure 4). 

Analogous asymmetric, samarium Reformatsky reactions of chiral 3-bro-moacetyl-2-oxazolidinones have been described by Fukuzawa.140 For example, reduction of 124 with Sml2 generates a samarium enolate that then reacts with pivalaldehyde to give the a-unbranched (I-hydroxycarboximide 125 in 87% yield and in high diastereoisomeric excess (Scheme 5.89). The reaction is synthetically noteworthy as highly diastereoselective acetate aldol processes are difficult to achieve. Sm(III) ions are likely to play an important role in the... 

Reaction with chiral acetals. The chiral ketals derived from (2R,4R)-( - )-2,4-pentanediol (1) can be cleaved with high diastereoselectivity by aluminum hydride reagents, in particular DIB AH, C12A1H, and Br2AlH. Oxidative removal of the chiral auxiliary affords optically active alcohols. This process provides a useful method for highly asymmetric reduction of dialkyl ketones.3... 

Chiral acetals can be used as auxiliaries in the diastereoselective reactions of Grignard reagents with acyclic as well as cyclic a-keto acetals. Nucleophilic addition to the monoprotected diketone (69 equation 18) occurs with excellent stereoselectivity to generate the corresponding tertiary alcohol (70) as the major product, usually with greater than 95 5 selectivity. Removal of the ketal yields a-hydroxy ketones of high optical purity. In most examples, enantiomeric excesses of 95% and higher are observed in the resultant keto alcohols. Table 17 represents the results of additions to cyclic and acyclic substrates. 

Panek has reported the reactions of chiral crotylsilanes, e.g. (S)-217c, with a variety of achiral acetals, resulting in the formation of homoallylic ethers 348 with high enantio- (>95% ee) and variable diastereoselectivities (Table 11-20) [149, 261]. The acetals can be formed in situ from the corresponding aldehydes via treatment with TMSOBn or TMSOMe in the presence of catalytic TMSOTf. 

A number of chiral acetal derivatives have also proved effective in asymmetric cyclopropanation reactions, with auxiliaries based on tartaric acid proving to be partieularly usefiil. In the case of cyclic a,P unsaturated compounds, di-O-benylthreitol derivatives (see 51) imdergo efficient and diastereoselective Simmons-Smith reactions to give the cyclopropanated products SS. ... 

The proposed model [B] implies that syn selection in catalyzed hydroboration should decrease as the o-accepting character of the anti substituent decreases. This explains the higher syn selectivity in catalyzed hydroboration of allylic trifluoroacetates as compared with reactions of allylic acetates and carbamates [25]. The less diastereoselectivity of cationic complexes in hydroboration of chiral allylic systems than in the neutral catalyst systems [29, 30] is rationalized, as the latter have more electron density to shed via back-bonding. The anti selectivity in catalyzed hydroboration of the allylic acetate and trifluoroacetate is rationalized in terms of competition between the phenyl and acetate groups for the role of a acceptor. The further evidence is obtained in the case of pentafluo-... 

Nucleophilic substitutions reactions with organocopper compounds or the more widely applied organocyanocuprates in the presence of Lewis acids have been reported on a./S-ethylenic acetals and allylic mesylates or acetates. Mangeney and co-workers have reported regio- and diastereoselective Sn2 or Sn2 reactions on chiral acetals of cyclic aldehydes promoted by PhCu and Furthermore, organocoppers react efficiently... 

Davis and coworkers have exploited the reactions of chiral JV-sulfinyl-amines in the synthesis of numerous alkaloids. Their route to (—)-epimyr-tine (1098) began with the diastereoselective addition of the enolate anion of methyl acetate to the (Ss)-(4-)-sulfmimine (+)-1128, from which the (Ss,S)-p-amino ester derivative (- -)-1129 was obtained in better than 97% de (Scheme 144). After Claisen condensation of 1129 with ierf-butyl acetate, the sulfmyl group was removed from the resulting P-keto ester (4-)-1130 by treatment with acid, the desuhinylated product then undergoing Mannich cyclization with acetaldehyde. The relative stereochemistry of the sole product, 2,6-a5-disubstituted piperidine (4-)-1131, was corroborated by nOe experiments, which indicated that no epimerization at the stereogenic centers had occurred. After hydrolysis and decarboxylation of... 

Lewis acid, by enolsilane addition to chiral oxonium ions (cf. equation 40). Oxonium ions are also probably involved in the diastereoselective AlCb-mediated additions of enolsilanes to chiral 2-benzenesulfo-nyl cyclic ethers. In the diastereoselective additions to chiral acetals - (see Section 2.4.4.4), an extension of the methodology shown in Scheme 9 to the enantio differentiation of meso 1,2- and 1,4-diols was reported. An intramolecular Mukaiyama acetal-aldol reaction (see Section 2.4.4.S) was reported as the key step to construct the 11-memboed ring of hydroxyjatrophone A and B. "... 

Marsh has showcased the use of chiral acetals as auxiliaries in diastereoselective Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation reactions [41]. When acetal 66 was allowed to react with CH2I2 in the presence of Zn/Cu couple, cyclopropane 67 was formed in excellent yield and 20 1 dr (Equation 5). 

Unsaturated acyl derivatives of oxazolidinones can be used as acceptors, and these reactions are enantioselective in the presence of chiral to-oxazoline catalysts.321 Silyl ketene acetals of thiol esters are good reactants and the stereochemistry depends on the ketene acetal configuration. The Z-isomer gives higher diastereoselectivity than the Zf-isomer. 

Besides their application in asymmetric alkylation, sultams can also be used as good chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric aldol reactions, and a / -product can be obtained with good selectivity. As can be seen in Scheme 3-14, reaction of the propionates derived from chiral auxiliary R -OH with LICA in THF affords the lithium enolates. Subsequent reaction with TBSC1 furnishes the 0-silyl ketene acetals 31, 33, and 35 with good yields.31 Upon reaction with TiCU complexes of an aldehyde, product /i-hydroxy carboxylates 32, 34, and 36 are obtained with high diastereoselectivity and good yield. Products from direct aldol reaction of the lithium enolate without conversion to the corresponding silyl ethers show no stereoselectivity.32... 

In the synthesis of D-eryt/zro-sphingosine (78 without BOC protection), the key step is the asymmetric aldol reaction of trimethylsilylpropynal 75 with ke-tene silyl acetal 76 derived from a-benzyloxy acetate. The reaction was carried out with 20 mol% of tin(II) triflate chiral diamine and tin(II) oxide. Slow addition of substrates to the catalyst in propionitrile furnishes the desired aldol adduct 77 with high diastereo- and enantioselectivity (syn/anti = 97 3, 91% ee for syn). In the synthesis of protected phytosphingosine (80, OH and NH2 protected as OAc and NHAc, respectively), the asymmetric aldol reaction is again employed as the key step. As depicted in Scheme 3-27, the reaction between acrolein and ketene silyl aectal 76 proceeds smoothly, affording the desired product 80 with 96% diastereoselectivity [syn/anti = 98 2) and 96% ee for syn (Scheme 3-27).50... 

The Diels-Alder reaction outlined above is a typical example of the utilization of axially chiral allenes, accessible through 1,6-addition or other methods, to generate selectively new stereogenic centers. This transfer of chirality is also possible via in-termolecular Diels-Alder reactions of vinylallenes [57], aldol reactions of allenyl eno-lates [19f] and Ireland-Claisen rearrangements of silyl allenylketene acetals [58]. Furthermore, it has been utilized recently in the diastereoselective oxidation of titanium allenyl enolates (formed by deprotonation of /3-allenecarboxylates of type 65 and transmetalation with titanocene dichloride) with dimethyl dioxirane (DMDO) [25, 59] and in subsequent acid- or gold-catalyzed cycloisomerization reactions of a-hydroxyallenes into 2,5-dihydrofurans (cf. Chapter 15) [25, 59, 60],... 

Denmark utilized chiral base promoted hypervalent silicon Lewis acids for several highly enantioselective carbon-carbon bond forming reactions [92-98]. In these reactions, a stoichiometric quantity of silicon tetrachloride as achiral weak Lewis acid component and only catalytic amount of chiral Lewis base were used. The chiral Lewis acid species desired for the transformations was generated in situ. The phosphoramide 35 catalyzed the cross aldolization of aromatic aldehydes as well as aliphatic aldehydes with a silyl ketene acetal (Scheme 26) [93] with good yield and high enantioselectivity and diastereoselectivity. 

Three years after the discovery of the asymmetric BINOL phosphate-catalyzed Mannich reactions of silyl ketene acetals or acetyl acetone, the Gong group extended these transformations to the use of simple ketones as nucleophiles (Scheme 25) [44], Aldehydes 40 reacted with aniline (66) and ketones 67 or 68 in the presence of chiral phosphoric acids (R)-3c, (/ )-14b, or (/ )-14c (0.5-5 mol%, R = Ph, 4-Cl-CgH ) to give P-amino carbonyl compounds 69 or 70 in good yields (42 to >99%), flnfi-diastereoselectivities (3 1-49 1), and enantioselectivities (72-98% ee). 

The synthesis of chiral pyrroloketopiperazines 174 was achieved via diastereo-selective Ugi reaction, with chiral 2-(2-formyl-l//-pyrrol-l-yl)acetic acids 175 conveniently derived from ot-amino acids [54]. The reaction proceeds with moderate diastereoselectivity trans. cis, up to 4 1) to give the target compounds 174 in good yields (Scheme 30). Noteworthy, the mixture of diastereomeres was separated by column chromatography and could be isolated as single diastereomeres. 

Examples of the Bronsted-acid catalysts and hydrogen-bond catalysts are shown in Figure 2.1. We have recently reported the Mannich-type reaction of ketene silyl acetals with aldimines derived from aromatic aldehyde catalyzed by chiral phosphoric acid 7 (Figure 2.2, Scheme 2.6) [12]. The corresponding [5-amino esters were obtained with high syn-diastereoselectivities and excellent enantioselectivities. 

TABLE 6. Results of the regio- and diastereoselective ene reaction of singlet oxygen with chiral aUyUc alcohols, acetates, amines (and acyl derivatives), silyl ethers and ethers... 

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