4.5- dihydrooxazol

A different approach to chiral oc-hydroxy acids 4 is the nucleophilic addition of organometallic reagents to chiral oc-oxo 4,5-dihydrooxazoles 2, which can be synthesized by oxidation of the corresponding 2-alkyl-4,5-dihydrooxazoles l17,19. 

Results of nucleophilic addition reactions to various a-oxo 4,5-dihydrooxazoles are summarized in Table 24. In general, the diastereoselectivity of these reactions is low to moderate, although an increased selectivity is found in the presence of triethylamine or N,N,N, N -te-tramethylethylenediamine, which slow down the rate of reaction. Nevertheless, enantiomerical-ly pure 2-hydroxy carboxylic acids can be prepared by this method, since the diastereomeric addition products are separable either by recrystallization or HPLC21. 

Under inversion of the configuration at sulfur, enantiomerically pure 4,5-dihydro-2-[(7 )-sulfinylmethyl)]oxazoles (e.g 2) are obtained from metalaled 4,5-dihydrooxazoles and (-)-menthyl (5,)-4-methylbenzenesulfinate31. 

Reaction of the corresponding lithiated 2-ethyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole 8 with 2-methylpropanal affords a 82 18 mixture of the anti- and. yw-adducts from which 75% of the pure (Y S,2 S)-anti-enantiomer can be isolated by chromatography19. 

Enhanced anti selectivity is observed in reactions of lithiated 4.5-dihydrooxazoles bearing an additional substituent which facilitates the formation of rigid azaenolates by internal chelation of lithium13. Thus, reaction of 2-ethyl-4,5-dihydro-4,4-dimethyloxazole (10) with 2-methylpropanal gives a 56 44 mixture of adducts while (R)-2-ethyl-4,5-dihydro-4-(methoxymethyl)-oxazolc (12) reacts with the same aldehyde to yield a 90 10 mixture of adducts 1313. 

Formation of C-C Bonds by Addition to Olefinic Double Bonds Enimines, Nitroalkenes, 4,5-Dihydrooxazoles, a,/MJnsaturated Sulfones, Sulfoxides and Sulfoximines... 

I.5.3.3. Addition to 2-Vinyl or 2-Aryl-4,5-dihydrooxazoles I.5.3.3.I. Diastereofacial Selectivity Chiral 4,5-Dihydrooxazoles... 

The addition of various alkyllithium reagents to ( )-2-(l-alkenyl)-4,5-dihydrooxazoles in THF at —78 °C followed by acid hydrolysis gave nonracemic chiral / ,/>-disubstituted carboxylic acids in high enantiomeric purity (>91% ee). 

In some cases the yields were poor due to competing deprotonation of the substrate by the organolithium reagent. Deprotonation was the predominant reaction with methyllithium or when (Z)-2-(l-alkenyl)-4,5-dihydrooxazoles were employed. The stereochemical outcome has been rationalized as occurring from a chelated transition state. The starting chiral amino alcohol auxiliary can also be recovered without racemization for reuse. 

More recently, 4-/m-hutyl- and 4-isopropyl-substituted 4,5-dihydrooxazoles were found to be superior to the original 4-methoxymethyl-5-phenyloxazolines9. Thus, addition of butyl-lithium to 2-(1 - or 2-naphthyl)-substituted 4-ter/-butyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole followed by addition of iodomethane gave adducts in 99 1 and 98.5 1.5 diastereoselection, respectively. The 4-isopropyl analog was less diastereoselective, although the diastereoselection was superior to that of the original 4,5-dihydro-4-methoxymethyl-5-phenyloxazole. 

A flame-dried flask under argon containing a 0.08 M THF solution of 317 mg (1.0 mmol) of the 2-(l- or 2-naphthyl)-substituted 4,5-dihydrooxazole is cooled to a temperature of between — 80 and 0 CC (see ref 7) and is treated with 1.5-2.0 equiv of the alkyllithium. The solution becomes deep red over 2-4 h and is quenched by the dropwise addition of 1.5 equiv of the electrophile (either neat or as a THF solution). The temperature is maintained for 1 h and then the solution is warmed gradually to 0 JC. The solution is diluted with 100 mL of diethyl ether and washed with 5 mL of sat. NH4C1, followed by 3 mL of sat. aq NaCI. The combined aqueous layers are back-extracted with 10 mL of CII2C12, and the combined extracts are dried over Na2S04. Concentration of the filtrate in vacuo provides a yellow oil, which is flash chromatographed over silica gel (1 -10% ethyl acetate in hexane) to yield the desired adducts. The diastereomeric ratios are determined by HPLC (Zorbax Sil column, Du Pont). 

Asymmetric synthesis of tricyclic nitro ergoline synthon (up to 70% ee) is accomplished by intramolecular cyclization of nitro compound Pd(0)-catalyzed complexes with classical C2 symmetry diphosphanes.94 Palladium complexes of 4,5-dihydrooxazoles are better chiral ligands to promote asymmetric allylic alkylation than classical catalysts. For example, allylic substitution with nitromethane gives enantioselectivity exceeding 99% ee (Eq. 5.62).95 Phosphi-noxazolines can induce very high enatioselectivity in other transition metal-catalyzed reactions.96 Diastereo- and enantioselective allylation of substituted nitroalkanes has also been reported.9513... 

Cyclization of. V-alkeny lam ides to 2-oxazolines was achieved in very mild conditions with fert-butyl hypoiodite <06OL3335>. The 5-exo-dig gold(I)-catalyzed cyclization of propargylic trichloroacetimidates 129 proceeded with remarkably efficiency under very mild conditions to give 4-methylene-4,5-dihydrooxazoles 130 in good yields. The mildness of the protocol was clearly responsible for the lack of isomerization of the final products to the corresponding, thermodynamically more stable, oxazoles <06OL3537>. 

This regioselectivity is practically not influenced by the nature of subsituent R. 3,5-Disubstituted isoxazolines are the sole or main products in [3 + 2] cycloaddition reactions of nitrile oxides with various monosubstituted ethylenes such as allylbenzene (99), methyl acrylate (105), acrylonitrile (105, 168), vinyl acetate (168) and diethyl vinylphosphonate (169). This is also the case for phenyl vinyl selenide (170), though subsequent oxidation—elimination leads to 3-substituted isoxazoles in a one-pot, two-step transformation. 1,1-Disubstituted ethylenes such as 2-methylene-1 -phenyl-1,3-butanedione, 2-methylene-1,3-diphenyl- 1,3-propa-nedione, 2-methylene-3-oxo-3-phenylpropanoates (171), 2-methylene-1,3-dichlo-ropropane, 2-methylenepropane-l,3-diol (172) and l,l-bis(diethoxyphosphoryl) ethylene (173) give the corresponding 3-R-5,5-disubstituted 4,5-dihydrooxazoles. 

Condensation of 2-bromoethylamine hydrobromide with benzoyl chloride in benzene in the presence of 5 equivalents of EtsN gave 2-phenyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole (1) in 67% yield [1]. Treatment of 1 with 3 equivalents of NBS in boiling CCL in the presence of AIBN led to 5-bromo-2-phenyloxazole (2). Presumably, sequential bromination and dehydrobromination of 1 led to 2-phenyloxazole, which underwent further bromination to afford 2. 

An iridium(I) complex with the l,2-bis(tcrt-butylmethylphosphino)ethane (4) and tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate as the counter anion catalyzes the hydrogenation of several acyclic aromatic Ai-arylimines under atmospheric hydrogen pressure at room temperature, giving the desired chiral amines with high-to-excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99%, Fig. 6) [19]. The authors also tested (S )-BINAP (Fig. 1) and (/ )-Ph-PHOX (PHOX = 2-[2-(diphenylphosphino) phenyl]-4,5-dihydrooxazole) hgands with lower enantioselectivities [19]. Both steric and electronic properties of the ligand and the combination with the BArF anion are in the base of the efficacy of this catalytic system. On the other hand, attempted hydrogenations of Ai-(2,2,2-trifluoro-l-phenylethylidene)aniline and M-(l,2,2-trimethyl-propylidene)aniline under the same conditions resulted in... 

Aryl-4,5-dihydrooxazoles 556 underwent cobalt-catalyzed carbonylation to give 4,5-dihydro-l,3-oxazin-6-ones 557, usually in good yields, but an exception was the ring enlargement of 556 containing a 5-methyl (R = Me) or a sterically bulky 2-(o-tolyl) substituent (Equation 67) <20030L1575>. 

Cycloadditions have been carried out to 37/-indoles (222, 223) (125,126), N-arylmaleimides (224) (127,128), l,2), -azaphospholes (225) (129), 5(47/)-oxazo-lones (226) (130), and 4,5-dihydrooxazoles (230) (131). The primary cycloadducts from the reaction of oxazolones (e.g., 226 with diaryl nitrile imines), derived from tetrazoles in refluxing anisole, do not survive. They appear to lose carbon dioxide and undergo a dimerization-fragmentation sequence to give the triazole 228 and the diarylethene 229 as the isolated products (130). In cases where the two aryl substituents on the oxazole are not the same, then, due to tautomerism, isomeric mixtures of products are obtained. 

The adducts 231 from cycloaddition to the 4,5-dihydrooxazoles 230 are also prone to undergo ring opening to give 232, depending on the nature of the substituents R and R (131). 

Determination of the relative configuration around the biphenyl axis in products 15 and 16 (formed as indicated on p 413) by removing the auxiliary 4,5-dihydrooxazole moiety in steps 15 -+ 17 and 17 18. Thus, 15 was correlated with the known biphenyl 18, which was previous-... 

Utilizing the versatile chiral 4,5-dihydrooxazole functionality as an activating group9, threefold wf/io-substituied biphenyls may be synthesized in high yield and useful diastereoselectivity10, u. 

Nitrogen-Substituted Organometallic Compounds From 2-Amino-4,5-dihydrooxazoles... 

Some further examples of stereoselective deprotonation/alkylation reactions of tricarbonyl-chromium complexed (V-methyl tetrahydroisoquinolines have been reported27. Starting with the enantiomerically pure (35)-methyl tetrahydroisoquinoline reaction with hexacarbonyl-chromium led to a mixture of endo- (40%) and exo- (60%) complexes, which were deprotonated with butyllithium and subsequently methylated with iodomethane. In this way methylation occurred firstly at the 4- and secondly at the 1-position. In all cases, the methyl group entered anti to the chromium complexed face. After separation of the alkylated complexes by chromatography and oxidative decomplexation, the enantiomerically pure diastereomers (—)-(l 5,35,47 )-and ( + )-(17 ,35,45)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-l,2,3,4-tetramethylisoquinolme were obtained, benzylic amines such as tetrahydroisoquinoline to 2-amino-4,5-dihydrooxazoles. Deprotona... 

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