Enol ethers preformed

Among the preformed enol derivatives used in this way have been enolates of magnesium, lithium, titanium, zirconium, and tin, ° silyl enol ethers, enol borinates,and enol borates, R CH=CR"—OB(OR)2. The nucleophilicity of silyl enol ethers has been examined. In general, metallic Z enolates give the syn (or erythro) pair, and this reaction is highly useful for the diastereoselective synthesis of these products. The ( ) isomers generally react nonstereoselectively. However, anti (or threo) stereoselectivity has been achieved in a number of cases, with titanium enolates, with magnesium enolates, with certain enol bor-inates, and with lithium enolates at — 78°C. ... 

Scheme 2.12 shows some representative Mannich reactions. Entries 1 and 2 show the preparation of typical Mannich bases from a ketone, formaldehyde, and a dialkylamine following the classical procedure. Alternatively, formaldehyde equivalents may be used, such as l>is-(di methyl ami no)methane in Entry 3. On treatment with trifluoroacetic acid, this aminal generates the iminium trifluoroacetate as a reactive electrophile. lV,A-(Dimethyl)methylene ammonium iodide is commercially available and is known as Eschenmoser s salt.192 This compound is sufficiently electrophilic to react directly with silyl enol ethers in neutral solution.183 The reagent can be added to a solution of an enolate or enolate precursor, which permits the reaction to be carried out under nonacidic conditions. Entries 4 and 5 illustrate the preparation of Mannich bases using Eschenmoser s salt in reactions with preformed enolates. 

Another attractive domino approach starts with an aldol reaction of preformed enol ethers and carbonyl compounds as the first step. Rychnovsky and coworkers have found that unsaturated enol ethers such as 2-237 react with different aldehydes 2-238 in the presence of TiBr4. The process consists of an aldol and a Prins-type reaction to give 4-bromotetrahydropyrans 2-239 in good yields, and allows the formation of two new C-C-bonds, one ring and three new stereogenic centers (Scheme 2.56) [131]. In the reaction, only two diastereomers out of eight possible isomers were formed whereby the intermediate carbocation is quenched with a bromide. 

Effective catalysts include TiCL,57 SnCl4,58 (CH3)3Si03SCF3,59 and Bu2Sn03SCF3.60 61 Indium trichloride catalyzes Mukaiyama additions in aqueous solution. The reaction is best conducted by preforming the aldehyde-InCl3 complex and then adding the silyl enol ether and water. 

Among the preformed enol derivatives used in this way have been enolates of magnesium, lithium,526 titanium,527 rhodium,528 zirconium,522 and tin,529 silyl enol ethers,530 enol bori-nates,531 and enol borates R CH=CR"—OB(OR)2.532 In general, metallic Z enolates give... 

Since then, efficient catalytic asymmetric methods have been developed for the addition of silyl enol ethers or silyl ketene acetals to imines with chiral metal catalysts [29-34], Recently, direct catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions which do not require preformation of enolate equivalents have appeared. 

A disadvantage of the described method is the necessity of using preformed benzyl enol ethers, which are usually not available from stock and whose synthesis is not always a simple task. In addition, benzyl enol ethers of ketones are not available. 

In origin, the Mannich reaction is a three-component reaction between an eno-lizable CH-acidic carbonyl compound, an amine, and an aldehyde producing / -aminocarbonyl compounds. Such direct Mannich reactions can encompass severe selectivity problems since both the aldehyde and the CH-acidic substrate can often act as either nucleophile or electrophile. Aldol addition and condensation reactions can be additional competing processes. Therefore preformed electrophiles (imines, iminium salts, hydrazones) or nucleophiles (enolates, enamines, enol ethers), or both, are often used, which allows the assignment of a specific role to each car-... 

Use of the preformed Z-silyl enol ether 18 results in quite substantial anti/syn selectivity (19 20 up to 20 1), with enantiomeric purity of the anti adducts reaching 99%. The chiral PT-catalyst 12 (Schemes 4.6 and 4.7) proved just as efficient in the conjugate addition of the N-benzhydrylidene glycine tert-butyl ester (22, Scheme 4.8) to acrylonitrile, affording the Michael adduct 23 in 85% yield and 91% ee [10]. This primary product was converted in three steps to L-ornithine [10]. The O-allylated cinchonidine derivative 21 was used in the conjugate addition of 22 to methyl acrylate, ethyl vinyl ketone, and cydohexenone (Scheme 4.8) [12]. The Michael-adducts 24-26 were obtained with high enantiomeric excess and, for cydohexenone as acceptor, with a remarkable (25 1) ratio of diastereomers (26, Scheme 4.8). In the last examples solid (base)-liquid (reactants) phase-transfer was applied. 

The imines 12 (X = 4-CH3-QH4-SO2 (Ts), Ar, C02R, COR, etc.) preformed or generated in situ from N,0- or N,N-acetals or hemiacetals are another important class of Mannich reagents frequently used for diastereo- and/or enantioselective aminoalkylation reactions catalyzed by chiral Lewis acids (usually copper or palladium BINAP complexes such as 13). Among other things excellent results were obtained in the aminoalkylation of silyl enol ethers or ketene acetals [24], A typical example is the synthesis of Mannich bases 14 depicted in Scheme 5 [24b], Because of their comparatively high electrophilicity imines 12 could even be used successfully for the asymmetric aminoalkylation of unactivated alkenes 15 (ene reactions, see Scheme 5) [24h, 25], and the diastereo- and/or enantioselective aminoalkyla-... 

The best results are obtained with the above-named oxidants in a mixed solvent of methanol and trimethyl orthoformate in the presence of a strong acid these conditions presumably ensure rapid acetaliza-tion of the carbonyl to prevent a-oxidation. This side reaction is more serious when is alkyl and the orthoformate is omitted, or if ethyl carbonate or acetonitrile is used as solvent. Preformed enol ethers and enamines give the desired oxidative rearrangement in high yield. 

Among the methodologies listed in the introduction to generate the key enol/enolate intermediate, the enantioselective protonations of metal enolates, the so-called preformed enolates, or of their substitutes such as enamines or enol ethers have known, by far, the most intensive research development (Scheme 7.2). 

This drawback was circumvented by treating the preformed silyl enol ethers with phenyliodine(III) reagents. In this way, a variety of groups were introduced regiospecifically hydroxy,228,253-256 alkoxy,228,253,257 trifluoromethanesulfonyloxy258 and other sulfonyloxy groups.259 in the case of the... 

Traditionally, aldol reactions were carried out under protic conditions, such that the enolate was formed reversibly (see Volume 2, Chapter 1.5). An added measure of control is possible if one uses a sufficiently strong base that the enolate may be quantitatively formed prior to addition of the electrophile. The renaissance that has occurred in the aldol reaction in the last two decades has been mainly due to the development of methods for the formation and use of preformed enolates. The simplest enolates to prepare are those associated with lithium and magnesium, and there now exists a considerable literature documenting certain aspects of lithium and magnesium enolate aldol chemistry. This chapter summarizes the aldol chemistry of preformed enolates of these Group I and Group II metals. Other chapters in this volume deal with boron enolates, zinc enolates, transition metal enolates and the related chemistry of silyl and stannyl enol ethers. 

Trichlorotitanium enolates are formed in variable yield from trimethylsilyl enol ethers and an equivalent of TiCU in dichloromethane at 20-35 C. These highly Lewis acidic preformed enolates then undergo aldol reactions at -70 C to give moderate levels of syn selectivity, as in equation (13). Trichlorotitanium enolates have also been used by Reetz et al. in their studies on diastereofacially selective aldol additions to a-alkoxy aldehydes.Trichlorotitanium enolates are formed in situ in the aldol reaction of aromatic ketones and aldehydes using TiCU and EtsN. ... 

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