Fluoroalkyl amino compounds

Asymmetric Synthesis of Fluoroalkyl Amino Compounds via Chiral Sulfoxides... 

Scheme 6. Synthesis of a-fluoroalkyl amino compounds from p-sulfinyl enamines.

This study provides a stereoselective route to syn and anti P-amino trifluoromethyl alcohols and to syn and anti trifluoromethyl isoserines. These new preparations allow an access to enantiomerically pure fluoroalkyl amino alcohols which can be used as peptidomimetic units for the design of fluoroalkyl analogues of bioactive compounds. These methods can be extended to different patterns of substitution (Rf and R). 

The first section of this chapter describes the preparation and several synthetic applications of a-fluoroalkyl P-sulfmyl enamines and imines the second deals with the chemistry of di- and trifluoropyruvaldehyde A, 5-ketals, stereochemically stable synthetic equivalents of P-di and P-trifluoro a-amino aldehydes, which can be prepared from the corresponding p-sulfinyl enamines the third overviews the preparation of chiral sulfinimines of trifluoropyruvate and their use to prepare a library of a-trifluoromethyl (Tfm) a-amino acids the fourth section is mainly dedicated to the asymmetric synthesis of monofluorinated amino compounds, using a miscellany of methods such as MifstmobuAike azidation of P-hydroxy sulfoxides, ring opening of fluoroalkyl epoxides with nitrogen-centered nucleophiles and 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions with chiral fluorinated dipolarophiles. 

In this section we describe an original two-step approach to a wide range of a-fluoroalkyl/ar> l-amino compounds, most of them incorporating the title unit. 

Perfluoro(3-isothiocyanato-2-methyl-2-pentene) reacts with N-nucleophiles to produce a series of fluoroalkyl-substituted 6/f-l,3-thiazines <1997RJO720>. The acid-catalyzed cyclization of thioureas immobilized on Wang (X = O) or Rink resin (X = NH) provides a convenient route to a wide range of 2-amino-4/7-benzothiazine derivatives 212 (Scheme 23) <20000L3667>. The thioureas are obtained in four steps from 2-nitrocinnamic acids. A general synthesis of 2-alkylidene-4-imino-l,4-dihydrobenzo-l,3-thiazines 213-215 involves treatment of 2-isothiocyanato-benzonitrile with acidic methylene compounds under basic conditions <2003SL1503>. The ( )-isomers are the predominant isomers formed. 

Fluoroalkylamines react with nitrous acid to produce the corresponding unstable fluoroahphatic diazomum ions Placement of the tnfluoromethyl group at a carbon position a, (i, or y to a diazomum ion was used to probe the inductive effect on the chemistry of the transient carbocation resulting from dediazomation [7] If the fluoroalkyl group is bound to the same carbon as the amino group, conversion to the more stable diazo compound occurs For example, 4-diazo-l,l,l,2,2-pentafluoro-3-pentafluoroethyl-3-tnfluoromethylbutane is obtained from the reaction of the poly-fluoroalkylamine salt with sodium nitrite [8, 9] (equation 8)... 

Considerable activity continues with 0-glycosyl amino-acids. Two reports have appeared on 3-D-galactopyranosyl L-hydroxylysine derivatives,the first in connection with the development of assays for osteoporosis. An extensive range of related compounds W (with R = alkyl and fluoroalkyl), as well as related thioglycoside and 2-N-acetyl-2-deoxy compounds have been made as GalCer analogues for anti-HIV testing. ... 

So, we were able to prepare selectively syn and anti trifluoromethyl amino alcohols. The next step was a search for a chiral approach to these compounds. Two approaches have been investigated to obtain chiral anti amino alcohols first we performed the reaction of epoxy ethers 3 with the chiral dimethylaluminum amide, prepared from the fi -phenethylamine and MeaAl (Scheme 5). From 3a, the reaction was effective leading, after reduction to the anti diastereoisomers 8a and 9a stereoselectively (Scheme 5). However, the chiral amine induced no selectivity anti amino alcohols 8a and 9a were obtained in a 50/50 mixture. Their separation was performed by crystallisation of the mandelate salts. Although this access to homochiral anti amino alcohols is somehow tedious, it is general since oxirane ring opening is efficient whatever the R substituent, and since epoxy ethers, substituted with various fluoroalkyl groups, are available. ... 

The interesting P-amino nitro derivatives 24 (Scheme 6), potential precursors of a-fluoroalkyl p-diamino compounds, like 25, were also obtained from P-sulfinyl enamines 19 and nitromethane (15). Unfortunately, even in this case a low stereocontrol was obtained. 

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