Hydroxy compounds resolution

Scheme 3.11 Kinetic resolution of organo-metallic hydroxy compounds...

The enantioselective esterification of unsaturated secondary alcohols has been extensively studied [182] and has found several successful additional applications with substrates containing double bonds [183-188]. The results have been collected in Table 2 and Scheme 40, whereas Scheme 41 shows interesting examples of the resolution of hydroxy compounds that contain a triple bond in the molecule [189,190]. 

Scheme 41 Resolution of triple-bond-containing hydroxy compounds.

The same successful procedure applies to other hydroxy compounds such as hydroxy lactones [202], hydroxy amides [203], and hydroxy phosphonic acids [204,205]. The results of these enantioselective resolutions are presented in Scheme 44. 

A special group of cyclic hydroxy compounds is constituted by 7-hydroxy lactones [214-217] and cyclic semiacetals [218]. For these sensitive and relatively unstable compounds, the experimental conditions of the enzymatic process seem especially attractive and well suited to obtain efficient and enantioselective resolution of racemic substrates (Scheme 47). 

Figure 10.1 Analysis of racemic 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3[2H]-furanone (1) obtained from a strawbeny tea, flavoured with the synthetic racemate of 1 (natural component), using an MDGC procedure (a) dichloromethane extract of the flavoured strawbeny tea, analysed on a Carbowax 20M pre-column (60 m, 0.32 mm i.d., 0.25 p.m film thickness earner gas H2, 1.95 bar 170 °C isothermal) (b) chirospecific analysis of (1) from the sti awbeny tea exti act, ti ansfened foi stereoanalysis by using a pemiethylated /3-cyclodextrin column (47 m X 0.23 mm i.d. canier gas H2, 1.70 bar 110 °C isothemial). Reprinted from Journal of High Resolution Chromatography, 13, A. Mosandl et al., Stereoisomeric flavor compounds. XLIV enantioselective analysis of some important flavor molecules , pp. 660-662, 1990, with permission from Wiley-VCH.

C-chiral hydroxy phosphorus derivatives, which have been described so far in the literature, are secondary alcohols. Thus, the syntheses of non-racemic compounds of this type comprise two main approaches (cf. C-chiral hydroxyalkyl sulfones. Section 2.2) asymmetric reduction of the corresponding keto derivatives and resolution of racemic hydroxyalkanephosphorus substrates. 

However, the most common and important method of synthesis of chiral non-racemic hydroxy phosphoryl compounds has been the resolution of racemic substrates via a hydrolytic enzyme-promoted acylation of the hydroxy group or hydrolysis of the 0-acyl derivatives, both carried out under kinetic resolution conditions. The first attempts date from the early 1990s and have since been followed by a number of papers describing the use of a variety of enzymes and various types of organophosphorus substrates, differing both by the substituents at phosphorus and by the kind of hydroxy (acetoxy)-containing side chain. 

The results presented in Tables 3 and 4 deserve some comments. First, a variety of enzymes, including whole-cell preparations, proved suitable for the resolution of different hydroxyalkanephosphorus compounds, giving both unreacted substrates and the products of the enzymatic transformation in good yields and, in some cases, even with full stereoselectivity. Application of both methodologies, acylation of hydroxy substrates rac-41 and rac-43 or the reverse (hydrolysis of the acylated substrates rac-42 and rac-44), enables one to obtain each desired enantiomer of the product. This turned out to be particularly important in those cases when a chemical transformation OH OAc or reverse was difficult to perform. As an example, our work is shown in Scheme 3. In this case, chemical hydrolysis of the acetyl derivative 46 proved difficult due to some side reactions and therefore an enzymatic hydrolysis, using the same enzyme as that in the acylation reaction, was applied. Not only did this provide access to the desired hydroxy derivative 45 but it also allowed to improve its enantiomeric excess. In this way. 

The first P-chiral hydroxy phosphoryl compounds that were enzymatically resolved into enantiomers were o-hydroxyaryl phosphines and their oxides 75. The resolution was achieved via enzyme-assisted hydrolysis of their O-acetyl derivatives 74, the most effective enzymes being CE and Upase from C. rugosa (CRL) (Equation 35). The highest enanfioselectivity was observed in the case of naphthyl derivatives (Equation 36), having a P=0 moiety. ... 

Despite its efficiency in numerous cases optical resolution is by no means a trivial operation. In each case the optimum method has to be found by laborious trial and error procedures the optical purity of the material has to be secured and its absolute configuration has to be established before the compound can be used in a synthetic sequence. These drawbacks of optical resolution led chemists to start their syntheses from optically active natural products (the so-called chiral carbon pool ). A variety of suitable ex-chiral-pool compounds including carbohydrates, amino acids, hydroxy acids, and terpenoids are shown. 

This method is particularly effective with cyclic substrates, and the combined effects of intramolecular and intermolecular asymmetric induction give up to 76 1 (kf/ks) differentiation between enantiomers of a cyclic allylic alcohol. This kinetic resolution provides a practical method to resolve 4-hydroxy-2-cyclopentenone, a readily available but sensitive compound. Hydrogenation of the racemic compound at 4 atm H2 proceeds with kf/ks =11, and, at 68% conversion, gives the slow-reacting R enantiomer in 98% ee. The alcoholic product is readily convertible to its crystalline, enantiomerically pure fert-butyldimethylsilyl ether, an important building block in the three-component coupling synthesis of prostaglandins (67). 

The [3-hydroxy amines are a class of compounds falling within the generic definition of Eq. 6A.6. When the alcohol is secondary, the possibility for kinetic resolution exists if the Ti-tartrate complex is capable of catalyzing the enantioselective oxidation of the amine to an amine oxide (or other oxidation product). The use of the standard asymmetric epoxidation complex (i.e., T2(tartrate)2) to achieve such an enantioselective oxidation was unsuccessful. However, modification of the complex so that the stoichiometry lies between Ti2 (tartrate) j and Ti2(tartrate)1 5 leads to very successful kinetic resolutions of [3-hydroxyamines. A representative example is shown in Eq. 6A.11 [141b,c]. The oxidation and kinetic resolution of more than 20 secondary [3-hydroxyamines [141,145a] provides an indication of the scope of the reaction and of some... 

The applications of re-acidic chiral stationary phases include the resolution of a-blockers and /1-blockers, amines, arylacetamine, alkylcarbinols, hydantoins, barbiturates, naphthols, benzodiazapines, carboxylic acids, lactams, lactones, phthaldehydes selenoids, and phosphorus compounds. Hyun et al. [16] achieved a chiral resolution of a homologous series of iV-acyl-x-(l-naphthyl )cthylaminc on AA(3,5-dinitrobenzoyl-(i )-phenylglycine and N-(3,5 - dini tr o ben zoy I)-(,S ) -1 c u c ine CSPs. The authors used hexane-2-propanol (80 20, v/v) as the mobile phase. Similarly, the scope of re-basic CSPs comprises the chiral resolution of / -blockers, amino acids, amines, diamines, amino phosphonates, naphthols, benza-diazapines, carboxylic acids, hydroxy acids, dipeptides, tripeptides, diols,... 

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