Enolates, aluminum lithium

The reason why the carbonyl group in -santonin remained intact may be that, after the reduction of the less hindered double bond, the ketone was enolized by lithium amide and was thus protected from further reduction. Indeed, treatment of ethyl l-methyl-2-cyclopentanone-l-carboxylate with lithium diisopropylamide in tetrahydrofuran at — 78° enolized the ketone and prevented its reduction with lithium aluminum hydride and with diisobutyl-alane (DIBAL ). Reduction by these two reagents in tetrahydrofuran at — 78° to —40° or —78° to —20°, respectively, afforded keto alcohols from several keto esters in 46-95% yields. Ketones whose enols are unstable failed to give keto alcohols [1092]. 

Selenenyl halides also react similarly with copper enolates, aluminum enolates, and zirconium enolates [101]. Scheme 15.38 illustrates the selenenylation of copper enolates generated by conjugate addition of lithium diphenylcuprate to cyclo-pentenone [100 d]. 

Ester enolates of lithium are notoriously unstable. When they have proved isolable and have been structurally characterized, they have been found to adopt highly aggregated structures. Nonetheless, the first example of a single-site mononuclear lithium initiator for the polymerization of MMA has recently been reported by Chen and Rodriguez-Delgado, who found that the steric-ally bulky Lewis acid bis(2,6-di-f rr-butyl-4-methylphenoxy)aluminum methyl (58, Figure 23.16)... 

Carhon nucleophiles of pXa 10-20 have heen most studied and often work hest with these substrates (eq 1), hut enamines, cyclopentadiene anions, enolates (eq 2), organotin, -thaUium, -zinc, -aluminum, -lithium, and -zirconiums, as weU as Grignards (eq 3) and horates, also add to r-allylpaUadium complexes. Heteroatom nucleophiles also add successfully these include amines (eq 4), amides, azides, magnesium amides, sulfonamides, alcohols, acids (eq 5), nitrites, sulhnic acids, thiols, phosphines, and phosphites. Limited use of transition metal nucleophiles is also known. ... 

Vinylogous amides undergo reduction with lithium aluminum hydride, by Michael addition of hydride and formation of an enolate, which can resist further reduction. Thus -aminoketones are usually produced (309, 563,564). However, the alternative selective reduction of the carbonyl group has also been claimed (555). 

In further modifications of these norprogestins, reaction of norethindrone with acetic anhydride in the presence of p-toluene-sulfonic acid, followed by hydrolysis of the first-formed enol acetate, affords norethindrone acetate (41). This in turn affords, on reaction with excess cyclopentanol in the presence of phosphorus pentoxide, the 3-cyclopentyl enol ether (42) the progestational component of Riglovic . Reduction of norethindrone affords the 3,17-diol. The 33-hydroxy compound is the desired product since reactions at 3 do not show nearly the stereoselectivity of those at 17 by virtue of the relative lack of stereo-directing proximate substituents, the formation of the desired isomer is engendered by use of a bulky reducing agent, lithium aluminum-tri-t-butoxide. Acetylation of the 33,173-diol iffords ethynodiol diacetate, one of the most potent oral proves tins (44). ... 

Compared to the lithium enolates of l and 5, the higher stereoselectivity obtained by the Mukaiyama variation is, in general, accompanied by reduced chemical yields. The chiral alcoholic moieties of the esters 3 and 7 can be removed either by reduction with lithium aluminum hydride (after protection of the earbinol group) or by aqueous alkaline hydrolysis with lithium hydroxide to afford the corresponding carboxylic acid. In both cases, the chiral auxiliary reagent can be recovered. 

Transmetalation of lithium enolate 1 a (M = Li ) by treatment with tin(II) chloride at — 42 °C generates the tin enolate that reacts with prostereogenic aldehydes at — 78 °C to preferentially produce the opposite aldol diastereomer 3. Diastereoselectivities of this process may be as high as 97 3. This reaction appears to require less exacting conditions since similar results are obtained if one or two equivalents of tin(ll) chloride arc used. The somewhat less reactive tin enolate requires a temperature of —42 C for the reaction to proceed at an acceptable rate. The steric requirements of the tin chloride counterion are probably less than those of the diethyla-luminum ion (vide supra), which has led to the suggestion26 44 that the chair-like transition state I is preferentially adopted26 44. This is consistent with the observed diastereoselective production of aldol product 3, which is of opposite configuration at the / -carbon to the major product obtained from aluminum enolates. 

This high diastereoselectivity contrasts dramatically with the nearly nonexistent selectivity of the lithium enolate of the corresponding triphenylphosphane complexes (vide supra). The diastereomer preferentially obtained from the fluorophenyl lithium enolate 9 corresponds to the major product produced by reaction of the aluminum enolate 1 b derived from the parent triphenylphosphane complex. 

As an alternative to lithium enolates. silyl enolates or ketene acetals may be used in a complementary route to pentanedioates. The reaction requires Lewis acid catalysis, for example aluminum trifluoromethanesulfonate (modest diastereoselectivity with unsaturated esters)72 74 antimony(V) chloride/tin(II) trifluoromethanesulfonate (predominant formation of anti-adducts with the more reactive a,/5-unsaturated thioesters)75 montmorillonite clay (modest to good yields but poor diastereoselectivity with unsaturated esters)76 or high pressure77. 

The preparation of Pans-1,2-cyclohexanediol by oxidation of cyclohexene with peroxyformic acid and subsequent hydrolysis of the diol monoformate has been described, and other methods for the preparation of both cis- and trans-l,2-cyclohexanediols were cited. Subsequently the trans diol has been prepared by oxidation of cyclohexene with various peroxy acids, with hydrogen peroxide and selenium dioxide, and with iodine and silver acetate by the Prevost reaction. Alternative methods for preparing the trans isomer are hydroboration of various enol derivatives of cyclohexanone and reduction of Pans-2-cyclohexen-l-ol epoxide with lithium aluminum hydride. cis-1,2-Cyclohexanediol has been prepared by cis hydroxylation of cyclohexene with various reagents or catalysts derived from osmium tetroxide, by solvolysis of Pans-2-halocyclohexanol esters in a manner similar to the Woodward-Prevost reaction, by reduction of cis-2-cyclohexen-l-ol epoxide with lithium aluminum hydride, and by oxymercuration of 2-cyclohexen-l-ol with mercury(II) trifluoro-acetate in the presence of ehloral and subsequent reduction. ... 

Conversion of ketone 80 to the enol silane followed by addition of lithium aluminum hydride to the reaction mixture directly provides the allylic alcohol 81 [70]. Treatment of crude allylic alcohol 81 with tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride followed by N-b ro m o s u cc i n i m i de furnishes the a-bromoketone 82 in 84 % yield over the two-step sequence from a.p-unsaturated ester 80. Finally, a one-pot Komblum oxidation [71] of a-bromoketone 82 is achieved by way of the nitrate ester to deliver the glyoxal 71. It is worth noting that the sequence to glyoxal 71 requires only a single chromatographic purification at the second to last step (Scheme 5.10). 

In the general context of donor/acceptor formulation, the carbonyl derivatives (especially ketones) are utilized as electron acceptors in a wide variety of reactions such as additions with Grignard reagents, alkyl metals, enolates (aldol condensation), hydroxide (Cannizzaro reaction), alkoxides (Meerwein-Pondorff-Verley reduction), thiolates, phenolates, etc. reduction to alcohols with lithium aluminum hydride, sodium borohydride, trialkyltin hydrides, etc. and cyloadditions with electron-rich olefins (Paterno-Buchi reaction), acetylenes, and dienes.46... 

More traditional carbon nucleophiles can also be used for an alkylative ring-opening strategy, as exemplified by the titanium tetrachloride promoted reaction of trimethylsilyl enol ethers (82) with ethylene oxide, a protocol which provides aldol products (84) in moderate to good yields <00TL763>. While typical lithium enolates of esters and ketones do not react directly with epoxides, aluminum ester enolates (e.g., 86) can be used quite effectively. This methodology is the subject of a recent review <00T1149>. 

The stereoselective total synthesis of both ( )-corynantheidine (61) (170,171) (alio stereoisomer) and ( )-dihydrocorynantheine (172) (normal stereoisomer) has been elaborated by Szdntay and co-workers. The key intermediate leading to both alkaloids was the alio cyanoacetic ester derivative 315, which was obtained from the previously prepared ketone 312 (173) by the Knoevenagel condensation accompanied by complete epimerization at C-20 and by subsequent stereoselective sodium borohydride reduction. ( )-Corynantheidine was prepared by modification of the cyanoacetate side chain esterification furnished diester 316, which underwent selective lithium aluminum hydride reduction. The resulting sodium enolate of the a-formyl ester was finally methylated to racemic corynantheidine (171). 

Lithium, magnesium, and aluminum enolates appear to afford comparable levels of kinetic aldol diastereoselection for a given enolate of defined structure. 

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