1.3- Dipolar cycloaddition of chiral nitrones

Enantioselective total synthesis of antifungal agent Sch-38516 is reported. Stereocontrolled carbohydrate synthesis is based on the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of chiral nitrone to vinylene carbonate, as shown in Eq. 8.53.79... 

The conversion of the amide group in 34 into the carboxy group via 35 seems to be a promising way to solve the "cunide problem" of B-lactam syntheses by 4CC (refs. 2,21). The conversion of B-lactam amides into the carboxylic acids via the esters was very successful in the hands of Hofheinz and Isenring (ref. 22) who worked with the N-benzhydryl amides of nocardicin derivatives. The stereoselective and regiose-lective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of chiral nitrones to benzyl crotonate is a key step in our approach to thienamy-cine (ref. 23) and related carbapenam derivatives. Besides chiral 2-phenylethyl hydroxylamine (ref. 24) the 1-hydro-xylamino derivative of 2,3-5,6-diacetone mannose (ref. 25) is a promising source of chiral nitrones for such enantiose-lective cycloadditions. 

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