Imidates allyl

Hydrogenolysis of the diallyl alkylmalonate 757 with formic acid in boiling dioxane affords the monocarboxylic acid 758. Allyl ethyl malonates are converted into ethyl carboxylates[471]. The malonic allyl ester TV-allylimide 759 undergoes smooth deallylation in refluxing dioxane to give the simple imide 760(472]. The allyl cyanoacetate 761 undergoes smooth decarboxylation to give... 

As we saw when discussing allylic brommation m Section 10 4 N bromosuccm imide (NBS) is a convenient free radical brommatmg agent Benzylic brommations with NBS are normally performed m carbon tetrachloride as the solvent m the presence of peroxides which are added as initiators As the example illustrates free radical bromi nation is selective for substitution of benzylic hydrogens... 

Unfortunately, in the case of trifluoroacetimidates COP-Cl (46) still required catalyst loadings, which are not useful for large-scale applications [10 mol% Pd (II)], while long reaction times were necessary for high conversion. Moreover, the scope was limited to substrates bearing a-unbranched alkyl substituents R at the 3-position of the allylic imidate. 

Caller M, Hollis TK, Overman LE, Ziller J, Zipp GG (1997) First enantioselective catalyst for the rearrangement of allylic imidates to allylic amides. J Org Chem 62 1449-1456... 

Cohen F, Overman LE (1998) Planar-chiral cyclopalladated ferrocenyl amines and imines as enantioselective catalysts for allylic imidate rearrangements. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 9 3213-3222... 

Donde Y, Overman LE (1999) High enantioselection in the rearrangement of allylic imidates with ferrocenyl oxazoline catalysts. J Am Chem Soc 121 2933-2934... 

Kang J, Yew KH, Kim TH, Choi DH (2002) Preparation of bis [palladacycles] and application to asymmetric aza-Claisen rearrangement of allylic imidates. Tetrahedron Lett 43 9509-9512... 

Anderson CE, Donde Y, Douglas CJ, Overman LE (2005) Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of chiral allylic amines. Evaluation of ferrocenyloxazoline palladacycle catalysts and imidate motifs. J Org Chem 70 648-657... 

Kang J, Kim TH, Yew KH, Lee WK (2003) The effect of face-blocking in the enantiose-lective aza-Claisen rearrangement of allylic imidates. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 14 415 18... 

Nomura H, Richards CJ (2007) An investigation into the allylic imidate rearrangement of trichloroacetimidates catalyzed by cobalt oxazoline palladacycles. Chem Eur J 13 10216-10224... 

A. Claisen Rerrangements of Ketene Aminats and Imidates. A reaction that is related to the orthoester Claisen rearrangement utilizes an amide acetal, such as dimethylacetamide dimethyl acetal, in the exchange reaction with allylic alcohols.257 The products are y, 8-unsaturated amides. The stereochemistry of the reaction is analogous to the other variants of the Claisen rearrangement.258... 

O-Allyl imidate esters undergo [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements to /V-allyl amides. Trichloromethyl imidates can be made easily from allylic alcohols by reaction with trichloroacetonitrile. The rearrangement then provides trichloroacetamides of IV-allylamines.260... 

Imidate esters can also be generated by reaction of imidoyl chlorides and allylic alcohols. The lithium anions of these imidates, prepared using lithium diethylamide, rearrange at around 0°C. When a chiral amine is used, this reaction can give rise to enantioselective formation of 7, 8-unsaturated amides. Good results were obtained with a chiral binaphthylamine.265 The methoxy substituent is believed to play a role as a Li+ ligand in the reactive enolate. 

A-Acyliminium ions, which are even more reactive toward allylic and alkenyl-silanes, are usually obtained from imides by partial reduction (see Section 2.2.2). The partially reduced A-acylcarbinolamines can then generate acyliminium ions. Such reactions have been employed in intramolecular situations with both allylic and vinyl silanes. 

Indium-mediated allylation reactions of a-keto imides derived from Oppolzer s sultam proceeded in aqueous THF in good yields and excellent diastereoselectivity (Eq. 11.43).74 The indium-mediated allylation of the Oppolzer camphorsultam derivatives of glyoxylic oxime ether... 

Trimethylsilyl triflate itself can not promote allylation reactions of aldehydes with allyltri-methylsilane. By using the more highly reactive system Me3SiB(OTf)4, the reactions proceed smoothly.326 A very small amount (0.2-1 mol.%) of Me3SiB(OTf)4 is enough for the reactions (Scheme 75). Allylation of acetals can be promoted by trimethylsilyl bis(trifluoromethanesulfo-nyl)imide (Me3SiNTf2),327 which is also a reactive catalyst for Diels Alder reactions.328... 

In 1975, van der Baan and Bickelhaupt reported the synthesis of imide 37 from pyridone 34 as an approach to the hetisine alkaloids, using an intramolecular alkylation as the key step (Scheme 1.3) [23]. Beginning with pyridone 34, alkylation with sodium hydride/allyl bromide followed by a thermal [3,3] Claisen rearrangement gave alkene 35. Next, formation of the bromohydrin with A -bi omosuccinimide and subsequent protection of the resulting alcohol as the tetrahydropyranyl (THP) ether produced bromide 36, which was then cyclized in an intramolecular fashion to give tricylic 37. 

An unusually high regioselectivity was observed by Cook s group in palladium-catalyzed allylic amination of 5-vinyloxazolidinone 10 (Scheme 2).5 An imide-type nucleophile was directed to the internal carbon, whereas... 

This imide system can also be used for the asymmetric synthesis of optically pure a,a-disubstituted amino aldehydes, which can be used in many synthetic applications.31 These optically active a-amino aldehydes were originally obtained from naturally occurring amino acids, which limited their availability. Thus, Wenglowsky and Hegedus32 reported a more practical route to a-amino aldehydes via an oxazolidinone method. As shown in Scheme 2 20, chiral diphenyl oxazolidinone 26 is first converted to allylic oxazolidinone 27 subsequent ozonolysis and imine formation lead to compound 28, which is ready for the a-alkylation using the oxazolidinone method. The results are shown in Table 2-6. 

Reagent control This involves the addition of a chiral enolate or allyl metal reagent to an achiral aldehyde. Chiral enolates are most commonly formed through the incorporation of chiral auxiliaries in the form of esters, acyl amides (oxazolines), imides (oxazolidinones) or boron enolates. Chiral allyl metal reagents are also typically joined with chiral ligands. 

With ligand 170 (R = Bn), Fahmi reports the formation of an equal amount of byproduct, formulated as the allylic imide 171, Eq. 103. Indeed, Fahmi suggests that this is the correct structure of the same byproduct observed by Katsuki et al. (116) (cf. Section III.A.4, Structure 161). Fahmi suggests that this product may be formed by insertion of solvent in copper benzoate intermediate 172, as illustrated in Scheme 12. The generated copper imidate 174 then reacts with the allylic radical and combines to provide the allylic amination product 175 that rearranges to the observed imide 171. 

Scheme 12. Proposed mechanism leading to the allylic imide observed as a side product in the allylic oxidation of alkenes in nitrile solvents. [Adapted from (120).]...

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