Diastereoselectivity synthetic applications

A series of 3-substituted-2-isoxazoles are prepared by the following simple procedure in situ conversion of nitroalkane to the silyl nitronate is followed by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition to produce the adduct, which undergoes thermal elimination during distillation to furnish the isoxazole (Eq. 8.74). 5 Isoxazoles are useful synthetic intermediates (discussed in the chapter on nitrile oxides Section 8.2.2). Furthermore, the nucleophilic addition to the C=N bond leads to new heterocyclic systems. For example, the addition of diallyl zinc to 5-aryl-4,5-dihydroi-soxazole occurs with high diastereoselectivity (Eq. 8.75).126 Numerous synthetic applications of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitronates are summarized in work by Torssell and coworker.63a... 

A structural requirement for the asymmetric Birch reduction-alkylation is that a substituent must be present at C(2) of the benzoyl moiety to desymmetrize the developing cyclohexa-1,4-diene ring (Scheme 4). However, for certain synthetic applications, it would be desirable to utilize benzoic acid itself. The chemistry of chiral benzamide 12 (X = SiMes) was investigated to provide access to non-racemic 4,4-disubstituted cyclohex-2-en-l-ones 33 (Scheme 8). 9 Alkylation of the enolate obtained from the Birch reduction of 12 (X = SiMes) gave cyclohexa-1,4-dienes 32a-d with diastereoselectivities greater than 100 1 These dienes were efficiently converted in three steps to the chiral cyclohexenones 33a-d. 

Synthetic applications involving regioselective or diastereoselective photooxygenation ene reactions, as key steps, are very common in the literature and some examples have already been reported in the previous sections. Additionally, the number of natural products... 

Oxazoline-directed aromatic substitution and addition reactions provide synthetic chemists with powerful tools for the construction of complex aromatic compounds. Since the last authoritative review by Meyers, these technologies have matured and found widespread applications in organic synthesis. While there has been somewhat limited methodological research in this area in the intervening years, one particularly exciting new development is the diastereoselective ortho-metalations directed by chiral oxazolines. Sections 8.3.9.1-8.3.9.3 will discuss these new developments as well as new synthetic applications of these reactions. 

The intramolecular photodimerization and [2 + 2]-photocycloaddition in DNA involves thymine or cytosine as the chromophore. This chemistry has been intensively investigated with regards to DNA damage and repair [131]. Despite the fact that the area is of continuous interest [132], the synthetic applications are limited and are not covered here in detail. However, some preparative aspects of 4-pyrimidinone photocycloaddition chemistry will be addressed. Aitken et al. have prepared a plethora of constrained cyclobutane P-amino acids by intra- or intermolecular [2 + 2]-photocycloaddition to uracil and its derivatives [133, 134]. In a chiral adaptation of this method, the uracil-derived enone 140 was employed to prepare the diastereomeric cyclobutanes 141 in very good yield (Scheme 6.49). The compounds are easily separated and were - despite the relatively low auxiliary-induced diastereoselectivity - well suited to prepare the as-2-aminocyclobutanecarboxylic acids 142 in enantiomerically pure form. Enantioselective access to the corresponding trans-products was feasible by epimerization in a-position to the carboxyl group [135],... 

Diastereoselectivity in radical additions to hydrazones 3 and 7 proved to be quite promising, with diastereomer ratios ranging from 93 7 to 99 1 (Table 3) [47]. In search of optimal stereocontrol, substituents on the oxazolidinone moiety were varied. Thus, isopropyl radical additions to several /V-acylhydrazones 3a-3e were compared for stereoselectivity (Scheme 3). High diastereoselectivities were observed in all adducts 13a-13e, although a rigorous measurement was not obtained on 13c. All of the auxiliaries impart stereocontrol suitable for practical synthetic application [48],... 

Sulfoximines are versatile reagents for diastereoselective and asymmetric synthesis. They continue to find many synthetic applications as both nucleophilic and electrophilic reagents. While the nucleophilic character of sulfoximine reagents has been well exploited,1 the use of the sulfoximine group as a nucleofuge is more recent and adds to the synthetic use of these compounds. The palladium(0)-catalyzed chemistry of allylic sulfoximines and the use of chiral sulfoximines as ligands in catalytic asymmetric synthesis are areas of recent development that have potentially useful applications. Further work is required to understand the factors that determine the diastereoselection and the stereochemical outcomes of these reactions. These studies will result in enhanced product diastereo- and enantioselectivities and make these reagents even more attractive to the wider synthetic chemistry community. 

Although an almost completely perfect enantioselection has recently bei observed with photoreactions carried out in rigid media or in supramoleculjj assemblies, diastereoselective photoreactions in solution will remain a methcj of choice for synthetic applications. However, a great effort has still to be mai to improve the diastereodifferentiation of photorearrangement processes and f control the selectivity of photoreactions involving polyfunctional substrates. 

Beak, R Basu, A. Gallagher, D. J. Rark, Y. S. Thayumanavan, S. Regioselective Diastereoselective, and Enantioselective Lithiation-Substitution Sequences-Reaction Rathways and Synthetic Applications, Acc. Chem. Res. 1996, 29, 552-560. 

Amide Enolates. The lithium (Z)-enolate can be generated from (5)-4-benzyl-3-propanoyl-2,2,5,5-tetra-methyloxazolidine and Lithium Diisopropylamide in THF at —78 °C. Its alkylations take place smoothly in the presence of Hexamethylphosphoric Triamide with high diastereoselec-tivity (eq 3), and its Michael additions to a,(3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds are also exclusively diastereoselective (eq 4). Synthetic applications have been made in the aldol reactions of the titanium (Z)-enolates of a-(alkylideneamino) esters. ... 

In the first purely synthetic application of the reaction, Schreiber employed the 1,2-Wittig rearrangement to synthesize 1,3-diol monoethers (equation 15). The syn products (56) were obtained in 14—32% yield with 90-95% diastereoselectivity (Table 3). The 1,4-product (57) was found to predominate at low temperature, whereas at 0 °C the 1,2-product was favored but the absolute yield did not increase. 

I n 1993, the first cinchona-catalyzed enantioselective Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction of benzaldehyde with the silyl enol ether 2 of 2-methyl-l -tetralone derivatives was achieved by Shioiri and coworkers by using N-benzylcinchomnium fluoride (1, 12 mol%) [2]. However, the observed ee values and diastereoselectivities were low to moderate (66-72% for erythro-3 and 13-30% ee for threo-3) (Scheme 8.1). The observed chiral inductioncan be explained by the dual activation mode ofthe catalyst, that is, the fluoride anion acts as a nucleophilic activator of the silyl enol ethers and the chiral ammonium cation activates the carbonyl group of benzaldehyde. Further investigations on the Mukaiyama-type aldol reaction with the same catalyst were tried later by the same [ 3 ] and another research group [4], but in all cases the enantioselectivities were too low for synthetic applications. 

For instance, the reaction of cyclohexa-l,3-diene and ethyl glyoxylate in the presence of (S)-31 proceeds smoothly to give the cycloadduct in 66% yield with 97% ee. The synthetic application of this process was demonstrated by the preparation of a highly interesting synthon for sesquiterpene lactones in high yield and diastereoselectivity, and with a very high ee as illustrated in Scheme 17 [35]. 

Synthetic applications of 8-oxabicycloL3.2.1Joct-6-en-3-one were reviewed <04AG(E)1935>. Ruthenium-catalyzed [2+2] cycloaddition of oxabicyclic alkenes with a chiral acetylenic acyl sultam provided the cycloadduct with excellent diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity. An example is shown in the scheme below <04AG(E)610>. 

Synthetic applications of the diastereoselective photodeconjugation of unsaturated esters 13 and 17 were explored and compared with the corresponding enantioselective approach. Highly enantioselective syntheses... 

Numerous synthetic applications of 2 -I- 2 photocycloadditions involving cyclohexenone and cyclopentenone derivatives and diastereoselective... 

One of the first eye-catching synthetic applications of arene-chromium chemistry was the synthesis of the sp/ro-sesquiterpenes ( )-acorenone and ( )-acorenone B (rac-7) disclosed by Semmelhack and Yamashita in 1980 [14]. These authors twice exploited the meta-selective nucleophile addition to anisole-Cr(CO)3 derivatives (Scheme 1). Starting from complex rac-1, such a reaction is first used for the regioselective introduction of an acyl sidechain to give 2 after oxidative workup. A few steps later, the nitrile rac-4 (obtained from rac-3 by complexation and separation of the diastereomeric products by preparative HPLC) is deprotonated to form the spiro addition product rac-5, from which the enone rac-6 is obtained after protonation and hydrolysis of the initially formed dienol ether. The final conversion of rac-6 into acorenone B (rac-7) efficiently proceeds over five steps and involves a diastereoselective hydrogenation of an exo-methylene group. 

The in situ procedure as proposed by Sonnet et al. (18) is much more attractive for synthetic applications. With the use of only a moderate excess of monopersulfate (C=C KHSO5 = l 2-2.4), they achieved an 80% yield for the epoxidation of oleic acid methyl ester and 81-96% for the epoxidation of various plant oils. It is a twophase reaction with a crown-ether as phase-transfer catalyst yet a considerable amount of inorganic waste (six times the weight of the product) is produced. In a recent work (21), the phase-transfer catalyst was replaced by acetonitrile as a polar solvent. In summary, epoxidation by dioxiranes is a promising new method for oleo-chemistry, especially because it also works in combination with metal catalysts to influence diastereoselectivity (22) an enantioselective epoxidation with sugardioxiranes has also been reported (23). 

The asymmetric hetero-Diels-Alder reaction is among the most powerful available methodologies for the construction of optically active heterocycles, with extensive synthetic applications in natural or unnatural products synthesis [151, 152]. In the last few years, the scope of this reaction has been extended to organophosphorus compounds. For example, Kumawat and co-workers developed a diastereoselective hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between isoprene and [l,4,2]-diazaphospholo-[4,5-a]-pyridines in the presence of sulfur or selenium, leading to the formation of 234 in 50% yield and with 4 1 dr (Scheme 76) [151]. 

While silyl enol ethers 21 and 23 were subjected to similar reaction conditions (Tables 1.5 and 1.6), the allylic C—H bond could also be functionalized by metal carbenoids to afford silyl-protected 1,5-dicarbonyls 22 and 24 respectively, which can be viewed as an equivalent of an asymmetric Michael reaction. Although the double bond is highly electron-rich and readily undergoes cyclopropanation in the presence of most other metal carbenoids, by using aryldiazoacetates 1 as carbene precursors, cyclic silyl enol ethers 21 were readily transformed into their corresponding allylic C—H bond insertion products 22 (22 ) in excellent yields, excellent ee and moderate de (Table 1.5). Noticeably, while acyclic silyl enol ethers 23 were subjected to the reaction, excellent diastereoselectivity (>90% de) was obtained, which shows great potential in synthetic applications (Table 1.6). 

The metal-catalyzed decomposition of diazo compounds in the presence of carbonyl compounds is a well-established reaction to generate a carbonyl ylide intermediate. Several new developments have revolutionized this area of chemistry and are included in this review. Most notably, major advances have occurred in catalyst design, such that highly chemoselective, diastereoselect-ive and enantioselective carbenoid transformations can now be achieved. Furthermore, it has been recognized that a wide array of carbenoid structures can be utilized in this chemistry, leading to a broad range of synthetic applications. 

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