Hydroxamic acids chiral

N-Acylnitroso compounds 4 are generated in situ by periodate oxidation of hydroxamic acids 3 and react with 1,3-dienes (e.g. butadiene) to give 1,2-oxazines 5 (Scheme 6.3). The periodate oxidation of 4-O-protected homo-chiral hydroxamic acid 6 occurs in water in heterogeneous phase at 0°C, and the N-acylnitroso compound 7 that is generated immediately cyclizes to cis and tranx-l,2-oxazinolactams (Scheme 6.4) [17a, b]. When the cycloaddition is carried out in CHCI3 solution, the reaction is poorly diastereo-selective. In water, a considerable enhancement in favor of the trans adduct is observed. 

The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction has also utilized dienophiles in which both reactive centers are heteroatoms. Kibayashi reported that the intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder cycloaddition of chiral acylnitroso compounds, generated in situ from periodate oxidation of the precursor hydroxamic acid, showed a marked enhancement of the trans-selectivity in an aqueous medium compared with the selectivity in nonaqueous conditions (Eq. 12.55).125 The reaction was readily applied to the total synthesis of (—)-pumiliotoxin C (Figure 12.5).126... 

Vanadium-catalyzed asymmetric epoxidation has recently been re-examined with a newly designed chiral hydroxamic acid (3).43-45 The hydroxamic acid (3) forms a 1 1 complex with vanadium ions and induces high enantioselectivity (Scheme 6). 

Acylnitroso compounds 197 (R = Me, Ph or Bn) react in situ with 1-methoxycarbonyl-1,2-dihydropyridine to yield solely the bridged adducts 198 quantitatively. On the other hand, 1 1 mixtures of the regioisomers 199 and 200 were formed from the nitroso-formates 187 (R = Me or Bn) (equation 110)103. The chiral acylnitroso compounds 201 and 202, which are of opposite helicity, add to cyclohexadiene to give optically active dihydrooxazines in greater than 98% diastereomeric excess (equations 111 and 112)104. Similarly, periodate oxidation of the optically active hydroxamic acid 203 in the presence of cyclopentadiene, cyclohexa-1,3-diene and cyclohepta-1,3-diene affords chiral products 204 (n = 1, 2 and 3, respectively) in 70-88% yields and 87-98% de (equation 113)105. 

A very simple chiral Lewis acid, prepared by mixing optically pure BINOL with 3 equiv of Me3Al, catalyzes the [4+2] cycloaddition of A-hydroxy-A-phenylacry-lamine with cyclopentadiene at 0°C in high yield (>96%) and a fairly good level of enantioselectivity (91% ee). Facile conversion of the products to the corresponding alcohols or aldehydes makes the hydroxamic acid intermediates particularly useful (Scheme 12.14). ... 

Intermolecular reactions of hydroxylamines with secondary alkyl halides and mesylates proceed slower than with alkyl triflates and may not provide sufficiently good yield and/or stereoselectivity. A nseful alternative for these reactions is application of more reactive anions of 0-alkylhydroxamic acids or 0-alkoxysulfonamides ° like 12 (equation 8) as nucleophiles. The resulting Af,0-disubstituted hydroxamic acids or their sulfamide analogs of type 13 can be readily hydrolyzed to the corresponding hydroxylamines. The same strategy is also helpful for synthesis of hydroxylamines from sterically hindered triflates and from chiral alcohols (e.g. 14) through a Mitsunobu reaction (equation 9). 

Treatment of V-acyloxazolidinone 122 with hydroxylamines using samarium triflate as a Lewis acid gives the corresponding hydroxamic acids 123 in 50-98% yields at room temperature (Scheme 61). The conversion proceeds with a high degree of chemoselectivity and without racemization of chiral centers at the a-position to the acyl group. 

In this context Miller " has demonstrated that all these issues could be overcome by hydroxamic-acids-based heteroatom activation.Therefore, S-halo or /S-hydroxy carboxylic acids 148a and 148b are converted to the corresponding hydroxamates 149a and 149b by active ester condensation with 0-substituted hydroxylamines (Scheme 69). Since chiral... 

Prior to the usage of the Ti-based catalytic system , the Sharpless group had reported their first asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols using a combination of VO(acac)2/ TBHP and the chiral hydroxamic acid 67 (ee < 50%) or derivatives (ee 80%) ". In 1999, Yamamoto and coworkers described an improvement of this oxidation protocol, ee values up to 94%, by using hydroxamic acids derived from binaphthol, 68 being the... 

With a twist on the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation protocol, Yamamoto and co-workers <99JOC338> have developed a chiral hydroxamic acid (17) derived from binaphthol, which serves as a coordinative chiral auxiliary when combined with VO(acac)j or VO(i-PrO)j in the epoxidation of allylic alcohols. In this protocol, triphenylmethyl hydroperoxide (TiOOH) provides markedly increased enantiomeric excess, compared to the more traditional t-butyl hydroperoxide. Thus, the epoxidation of E-2,3-diphenyl-2-propenol (18) with 7.5 mol% VO(i-PiO)3 and 15 mol% of 17 in toluene (-20 °C 24 h) provided the 2S,3S epoxide 19 in 83% ee. 

Ortho-directed metallations also allowed the synthesis of ferrocene-based hydroxamic acids such as 17 and 18 [23] as well as the preparation of planar-chiral carbenes 19 and 21 (which were trapped as chromium and rhodium complexes, 20 and 22, respectively) [24], In this context it is noteworthy that 19 was the first carbene with planar chirality ever reported. 

The asymmetric epoxidation of allylic alcohols with cumene hydroperoxide or rerf-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) was first examined by using chiral amino alcohol-Mo complexes 45) and V complexes with chiral hydroxamic acid ligands (Scheme 20) 46). The highest optical yields were 33% with geraniol and 50% with 2-phenylcinnamyl alcohol. Combined use of VO(acac)2 and a hydroxamic acid derived from proline led to 80% optical yield with 2-phenylcinnamyl alcohol 47). 

Klein, J., Hartenstein, H. and Sicker, D. 1994. First discrimination of enantiomeric cyclic hemiacetals and methyl acetals derived from hydroxamic acids and lactams of Gramineae by means of 1H NMR using various chiral solvating agents. Magn. Reson. Chem. 32, 727-731... 

The asymmetric epoxidation of homoallylic alcohols has continued to be a problematic area. A potential solution has recently been published <07JA286 07T6075>. The use of bis-hydroxamic acid 1 as a chiral ligand for a vanadium catalyst has provided both excellent yields and enantioselectivity. This method works well with both cis- and trans-alkenes. 

Brief reports of cycloadditions with chiral acyl nitroso dienophiles have recently appeared. - In one study, acyl nitroso compound (101) derived from the corresponding hydroxamic acid was added to cy-clohexadiene to afford a 3.5 1 mixture of diastereomeric adducts (102) and (103). It was proposed that dienophile (101) reacts in the cyclic chelated form shown, since the related methyl ether which cannot internally hydrogen bond shows much lower diastereoselectivity. ... 

Diastereoselective acylnitroso Diels-Alder reactions were performed using enantiopure hydroxamic acids derived from camphor and a-amino acids as chiral auxiliaries (Equation 90) <1997JOC3806, 1998T10537, 2003TL4571>. 

For the synthesis of natural products containing oxirane rings, it is desirable to prepare not only the correct diastereomers but also the proper enantiomers. To this effect, different chiral oxidants were tested tert-hutyl hydroperoxide and chiral hydroxamic acids as ligands to vanadyl acetylacetonate [1031] and especially tertAmtyX hydroperoxide, titanium tetra-... 

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