Enol ethers Mukaiyama Michael reaction

The catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction using silyl enol esters (Mukaiyama-Michael reaction) as the pronucleophiles has been reported using a titanium/BINOL catalyst (in up to 90% ee). Considering furan (11.36) as a silyl enol ether, this has been shown to undergo nucleophilic addition to the Michael acceptor (11.37). The product (11.38) canbe obtained with excellent diastereocon-trol with the scandium complex of hgand (11.39), or with excellent enantiocontrol... 

Methyl 1-phenylthiovinyl ketones can also be used as enones in kinetically controlled Robinson annulation reactions, as illustrated by Entry 6. Entry 7 shows a annulation using silyl enol ether as the enolate equivalent. These reactions are called Mukaiyama-Michael reactions (see Section 2.6.3). 

Conditions for effecting conjugate addition of neutral enolate equivalents such as silyl enol ethers in the presence of Lewis acids have been developed and are called Mukaiyama-Michael reactions. Trimethylsilyl enol ethers can be caused to react with electrophilic alkenes by use of TiCl4. These reactions proceed rapidly even at -78° C.308... 

Initial stereochemical studies suggested that the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction proceeds through an open TS, since there was a tendency to favor anti diastereoselec-tivity, regardless of the silyl enol ether configuration.312... 

Stereoselective Mukaiyama-Michael reactions, Heathcock et alJ have investigated the syn anti stereoselectivity in the reaction of twelve silyl enol ethers with a variety of acyclic and cyclic enones catalyzed by TiCh or SnCh. Preliminary results suggest that the stereoselectivity is independent of the geometry of the silyl enol ether, and that silyl enol ethers derived from aliphatic ketones show a preference for (2n /-addition ranging from 1.5 1 to 10 1. The preference for a/ift-addition is even higher in the case of (Z)-silyl enol ethers of aromatic ketones (10 1 to >20 1). However, high 5y/i-selectivity is observed with acyclic -butyl enones. 

Lewis-acid-promoted Michael additions complement the enolate (2) and enamine reactions (vide supra). Since a variety of methods exist for the generation of enol ethers and ketene acetals, often with good stereochemical and regiochemical control (vide infra), the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction often permits a degree of stereochemical and regiochemical control that is not easily possible in enolate and enamine reactions. Additionally, the reaction occurs under formally acidic conditions, so it can be used with base-sensitive substrates. 

This reaction was first reported by Mukaiyama et al. in 1974. It is a Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael conjugate addition of silyl enol ether to o ,/3-unsaturated compounds. Therefore, it is generally referred to as the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction. Because this reaction is essentially a conjugate addition, it is also known as the Mukaiyama-Michael addition or Mukaiyama-Michael conjugate addition. This reaction is a mechanistic complement for the base-catalyzed Michael addition, j and often occurs at much milder conditions and affords superior regioselectivity. s Besides silyl enol ether, silyl ketene acetals are also suitable nucleophiles in this reaction.For the hindered ketene silyl acetals, the Lewis acid actually mediates the electron transfer from the nucleophiles to o ,/3-unsaturated carbonyl molecules.On the other hand, the Q ,j8-unsaturated compounds, such as 3-crotonoyl-2-oxazolidinone, alkylidene malonates, and a-acyl-a,/3-unsaturated phosphonates are often applied as the Michael acceptors. It has been found that the enantioselectivity is very sensitive to the reactant structures —for example, Q -acyl-Q ,j8-unsaturated phosphonates especially prefers the unique syn- vs anft-diastereoselectivity in this reaction. In addition,... 

Alternatively, the iminium-activation strategy has also been apphed to the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction, which involves the use of silyl enol ethers as nucleophiles. In this context, imidazolidinone 50a was identified as an excellent chiral catalyst for the enantioselective conjugate addition of silyloxyfuran to a,p-unsaturated aldehydes, providing a direct and efficient route to the y-butenolide architecture (Scheme 3.15). This is a clear example of the chemical complementarity between organocatalysis and transition-metal catalysis, with the latter usually furnishing the 1,2-addition product (Mukaiyama aldol) while the former proceeds via 1,4-addition when ambident electrophiles such as a,p-unsaturated aldehydes are employed. This reaction needed the incorporation of 2,4-dinitrobenzoic acid (DNBA) as a Bronsted acid co-catalyst assisting the formation of the intermediate iminium ion, and also two equivalents of water had to be included as additive for the reaction to proceed to completion, which... 

In some cases, using the silyl enol ethers form of nucleophiles in the asymmetric Michael reactions is necessary for ensuring high reactivity and selectivity. MacMillan and co-workers [113] developed the first enantioselective organocata-lytic Mukaiyama-Michael reaction for the synthesis of enantioenriched 7-butenolide architecture in 2003. In the presence of chiral imidazolidinone catalyst 120 with acid additive, the reactions of silyloxy furan 118 with simple a,(3-unsaturated aldehydes... 

Using the silyl enol ethers 120 as nucleophiles, the Mukaiyama-Michael reactions with a,(3-unsaturated aldehydes and chalcones proved to be powerful tools for the preparation of synthetically useful 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds [114] (Scheme 5.56). 

SCHEME 5.56. Mukaiyama-Michael reaction of silyl enol ethers. 

Kobayashi et al. disclosed the effectiveness of lanthanides triflates as Lewis acid fear Mukaiyama-Michael reactions of a,p-unsaturated ketones and enol silyl ethers [llj. Virtually all of the lanthanide triflates except for Ce(OTf)3 and Tb(OTf)3 worked well and could be reused. By using 10mol% of Yb(OTf)3, the reaction proceeded smoothly with both cyclic and acyclic a,p-unsaturated ketones to afford 1,5-dicarbonyl compounds in high yield (Scheme 13.3). Remarkably, the recovered catalyst exhibited comparable catalytic performance in the second runs. 

In addition, sUyl enol ethers of substituted acetophenones [93] or thioesters [94] react with a,P-unsaturated aldehydes under iminium-catalysis conditions in the sense of a Mukaiyama-Michael reaction (Scheme 4.24). Apphcations of this transformation can be found in the total syntheses of compactin [95] and ho mod trie acid lactone and its homolog [96]. 

Under classical Mukaiyama conditions, silyl enol ether 2-372 and the Michael acceptors 2-373 and 2-374 underwent a twofold 1,4-addition to form an enolate in which an ideal set-up exists for an intramolecular aldol reaction. This led to 2-375 with the desired structural core of 2-376 in an overall yield of 42%. 

P,P] Vinylthionium ions such as 40.1 are potent Michael acceptors. Additions of silyl and stannyl enol ethers to vinylthionium ions such as 40.1 have been reported by Mukaiyama and co-workers (84-86). Two methods were employed for generation of the Michael acceptors elimination of ethyl sulfide from 40.2 under the action of a cationic trityl species (method A) and hydride abstraction from 40.3 and 40.4 by a trityl salt (method B) to give 40.1. Although both procedures use a strong Lewis acid to promote reaction, they differ substantially from the prior examples because an acceptor-acid... 

Michael reaction. Great activity is exhibited by Zn(OTf)2 for promoting the Mukaiyama version of the Michael addition involving the enol silyl ether of methyl a-diazoacetoacetate and conjugated cycloaUrenones. 

Aldol reaction. A new catalyst for the Mukaiyama version of an aldol reaction is [Ir(cod)(PPh3)2]OTf. Actually, after activation by hydrogen, it promotes a Michael reaction of enones with silyl enol ethers and the system can be modified to continue an aldol reaction. 

The chiral acyloxyborane 7 (CAB) has also been found to be an excellent catalyst for asymmetric Mukaiyama-Michael type aldol reaction between silyl enol ethers and aldehydes (Scheme 8). Yamamoto et al. [27] have used 20 mol % of CAB in propionitrile at -78 °C as a highly efficient catalyst for the condensation of several E and Z silyl enol ethers and ketene acetals with a variety of aldehydes (yields 49-97 %, 80-97 % ee). 

Mukaiyama aldol and Michael reactions. Aldol reactions catalyzed by LiClO OEtj proceed only with the combination of silyl enol ethers and dimethoxyacetals of aldehydes. Free aldehydes or acetals of ketones do not react. 

In 1974,Mukaiyama and co-workers reported the first examples of Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael reactions between silyl enolates and a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [33]. Evans and co-workers developed a catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction of silyl enol ethers of thiol esters to alkylidene malonates. For example, the reaction of alkylidene malonate 23 with 2.2 equiv of silyl enol ether 22 was carried out in the presence of 10 mol % of catalyst 25 and 2 equiv of hexa-fluoro-2-propanol (HFIP) in PhMe/CH2Cl2 (3 1) at -78 °C to give the expected adduct 24 in 93% ee (Scheme 5) [34]. Borane complex-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition has also been reported [35]. 

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