Chiral hydrazones

Chiral Hydrazones Chiral Oxime Ethers APSulfinyl Aldimines... 

Assorted anions. These are generated by deprotonation of allylic halides," chloromethylphosphonic esters, conjugated hydrazones, chiral carbamates,unsaturated a-aminonitriles, phosphonamides," and sulfonamides. The dianions derived from tu-haloalkanecarboxylic acids cyclize, and this reaction forms the basis of a synthesis of V-Boc cyclic imino acids. The conjugate bases of 2-(arylmethoxy)-methyl-2-oxazolines are unstable as [2,3]sigmatropic rearrangement takes place even at — 75°C. 

Proline-derived hydrazones, chiral, as intermediates 31, 812s32... 

Chiral hydrazones for asymmetric alkylations (RAMP/SAMP hydrazones- D. Enders "Asymmetric Synthesis" vol 3, chapt 4, Academic Press 1983)... 

Enamines derived from ketones are allylated[79]. The intramolecular asymmetric allylation (chirality transfer) of cyclohexanone via its 5-proline ally ester enamine 120 proceeds to give o-allylcyclohexanone (121) with 98% ee[80,8l]. Low ee was observed in intermolecular allylation. Similarly, the asymmetric allylation of imines and hydrazones of aldehydes and ketones has been carried out[82]. 

The application of the Hurd-Mori reaction to the preparation of some potential fungicides from chiral hydrazones 50 and 52 shows that no racemization occurs under the reaction conditions... 

S)- and (+ )-(7 )-l-Amino-2-(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidine- (SAMP and RAMP)-hydrazones derived from methyl ketones and chiral hydrazines are metalated regioselectively at the methyl... 

Table 4. Addition of Organometallics to Chiral /V,jV-Dimethyl Hydrazone Aminals Sb6,7 HsCe,...

An excellent synthetic method for asymmetric C—C-bond formation which gives consistently high enantioselectivity has been developed using azaenolates based on chiral hydrazones. (S)-or (/ )-2-(methoxymethyl)-1 -pyrrolidinamine (SAMP or RAMP) are chiral hydrazines, easily prepared from proline, which on reaction with various aldehydes and ketones yield optically active hydrazones. After the asymmetric 1,4-addition to a Michael acceptor, the chiral auxiliary is removed by ozonolysis to restore the ketone or aldehyde functionality. The enolates are normally prepared by deprotonation with lithium diisopropylamide. 

Excellent simple (90-100%) and induced diastereoselectivities (92-100%) were observed in the syntheses of 3,4-disubstituted 5-oxoalkanoates using, instead, various substituted aldehydes and ketones to prepare the chiral hydrazones. 

Simple 1,2,4-triazole derivatives played a key role in both the synthesis of functionalized triazoles and in asymmetric synthesis. l-(a-Aminomethyl)-1,2,4-triazoles 4 could be converted into 5 by treatment with enol ethers <96SC357>. The novel C2-symmetric triazole-containing chiral auxiliary (S,S)-4-amino-3,5-bis(l-hydroxyethyl)-l,2,4-triazole, SAT, (6) was prepared firmn (S)-lactic acid and hydrazine hydrate <96TA1621>. This chiral auxiliary was employed to mediate the diastereoselective 1,2-addition of Grignard reagents to the C=N bond of hydrazones. The diastereoselective-alkylation of enolates derived from ethyl ester 7 was mediated by a related auxiliary <96TA1631>. 

Alternatively, chiral hydrazones can be prepared from chiral aldehydes, e.g., 161, which underwent addition of allyltrichlorosilane in DMF to give the homoallylic hydrazine 162 with high yield and excellent diastereoselectiv-ity [76] (Scheme 25). 

Scheme 25 Diastereoselective addition of organometallic reagents to chiral a-amino hydrazones...

Clerici and Porta reported that phenyl, acetyl and methyl radicals add to the Ca atom of the iminium ion, PhN+Me=CHMe, formed in situ by the titanium-catalyzed condensation of /V-methylanilinc with acetaldehyde to give PhNMeCHMePh, PhNMeCHMeAc, and PhNMeCHMe2 in 80% overall yield.83 Recently, Miyabe and co-workers studied the addition of various alkyl radicals to imine derivatives. Alkyl radicals generated from alkyl iodide and triethylborane were added to imine derivatives such as oxime ethers, hydrazones, and nitrones in an aqueous medium.84 The reaction also proceeds on solid support.85 A-sulfonylimines are also effective under such reaction conditions.86 Indium is also effective as the mediator (Eq. 11.49).87 A tandem radical addition-cyclization reaction of oxime ether and hydrazone was also developed (Eq. 11.50).88 Li and co-workers reported the synthesis of a-amino acid derivatives and amines via the addition of simple alkyl halides to imines and enamides mediated by zinc in water (Eq. 11.51).89 The zinc-mediated radical reaction of the hydrazone bearing a chiral camphorsultam provided the corresponding alkylated products with good diastereoselectivities that can be converted into enantiomerically pure a-amino acids (Eq. 11.52).90... 

The reaction of hydroximoyl chlorides with the chiral, nonracemic hydrazones 313 (Equation 58) in the presence of TEA gave the 4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-oxadiazoles 314 as single diastereomers from which the chiral auxiliary was easily removed to furnish the corresponding 4-unsubstituted 4,5-dihydro-l,2,4-oxadiazoles with high ee s <1999H(50)995>. 

Rhodium diphosphine catalysts can be easily prepared from [Rh(nbd)Cl]2 and a chiral diphosphine, and are suitable for the hydrogenation of imines and N-acyl hydrazones. However, with most imine substrates they exhibit lower activities than the analogous Ir catalysts. The most selective diphosphine ligand is bdppsuif, which is not easily available. Rh-duphos is very selective for the hydrogenation of N-acyl hydrazones and with TOFs up to 1000 h-1 would be active enough for a technical application. Rh-josiphos complexes are the catalysts of choice for the hydrogenation of phosphinyl imines. Recently developed (penta-methylcyclopentyl) Rh-tosylated diamine or amino alcohol complexes are active for the transfer hydrogenation for a variety of C = N functions, and can be an attractive alternative for specific applications. 

Chiral Hydrazone Systems. In 1976, Corey and Enders34 demonstrated the great synthetic potential of metalated dimethylhydrazones as highly reactive intermediates in regio- and diastereoselective C C bond formation reactions. The procedure for carrying out the electrophilic substitution reaction... 

Figure 2-2. Electrophilic substitution to the carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones via metalated (chiral) hydrazones. 

It has been reported that the cleavage of SAMP hydrazones can proceed smoothly with a saturated aqueous oxalic acid, and this allows the efficient recovery of the expensive and acid-sensitive chiral auxiliaries SAMP and RAMP. No racemization of the chiral ketones occurs during the weak acid oxalic acid treatment, so this method is essential for compounds sensitive to oxidative cleavage.393... 

Several reviews and research papers discussing the application and extension of this method have appeared.40 For example, Weber et al.41 reported an interesting result in which cerium acted as a counterion in the modified proline auxiliary (SAMEMP 40) for selective addition of organocerium reagents to hydrazones. The initial adduct was trapped with either methyl or benzyl chloro-formate to afford the stable /V-aminocarbonatc 41 (Scheme 2-24). From this example readers can see that this proline chiral auxiliary can be used not only for a-alkylation but also for nucleophilic addition, which is discussed in detail later. 

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