Chiral imides

Kinetic analysis revealed that this reaction is pseudo-first order in dienophile at low conversions (200). At higher conversions, the rate deviates from a linear relationship, suggestive of product inhibition. Indeed, addition of product to the reaction at the start resulted in a decrease in rate by 18%. A number of competitive inhibitors were identified in this study. Particularly interesting was the observation that the matched chiral dienophile product was less effective as an inhibitor than the mismatched product. The authors suggest that the sterically matched complex (where the ligand bulk and imide chirality is on the same side of the complex) is thermodynamically less stable than the mismatched complex. 

Bis(oxazoline) ligands have also been employed in the catalytic enantioselective aza-Claisen rearrangement of allylic imidates, " chirality recognition in the determination of the ee of l,l -bi-2-naphthol, " and the enantioselective formation of double and triple helicates. 

Yuan LM, Han Y, Zhou Y et al (2006) (R)-N,N,N-trimethyl-2-aminobutanol-bis(trifluoromethane-sulfon)imidate chiral ionic liquid used as chiral selector in HPCE, HPLC, and CGC. Anal Lett 39 1439-1449... 

Pourcelot G, Auhouet J, Caspar A, Cresson R Addition dia-stereoselective d organo-cuprates a des imides chirales insaturees. 7. Organomet. Chem. 1987 328 C43-C45. 

Melnyk O, Stephan E, Pourcelot G, Cresson P. Additions diastereoselectives d alkyl, alcenyl, aryl et allyl cuprates a des imides chirales insaturees. Tetrahedron 1992 48 841-850. 

Industrial Synthetic Improvements. One significant modification of the Stembach process is the result of work by Sumitomo chemists in 1975, in which the optical resolution—reduction sequence is replaced with a more efficient asymmetric conversion of the meso-cyc. 02Lcid (13) to the optically pure i7-lactone (17) (Fig. 3) (25). The cycloacid is reacted with the optically active dihydroxyamine [2964-48-9] (23) to quantitatively yield the chiral imide [85317-83-5] (24). Diastereoselective reduction of the pro-R-carbonyl using sodium borohydride affords the optically pure hydroxyamide [85317-84-6] (25) after recrystaUization. Acid hydrolysis of the amide then yields the desired i7-lactone (17). A similar approach uses chiral alcohols to form diastereomic half-esters stereoselectivity. These are reduced and direedy converted to i7-lactone (26). In both approaches, the desired diastereomeric half-amide or half-ester is formed in excess, thus avoiding the cosdy resolution step required in the Stembach synthesis. 

Appllca.tlons. MCA is used for the resolution of many classes of chiral dmgs. Polar compounds such as amines, amides, imides, esters, and ketones can be resolved (34). A phenyl or a cycloalkyl group near the chiral center seems to improve chiral selectivity. Nonpolar racemates have also been resolved, but charged or dissociating compounds are not retained on MCA. Mobile phases used with MCA columns include ethanol and methanol. 

The first synthesis and use of a chiral oxazoline was reported by Meyers in 1974. The chiral oxazoline 1 was prepared in two steps by condensation of (-i-)-l-phenyl-2-amino-1,3-propanediol (6) with the ethyl imidate of propionitrile followed by 0-methylation of the resulting alcohol 7 with NaH/Mel. Meyers demonstrated chiral oxazoline 1 could be... 

A variety of nucleophiles can be employed—e.g. carboxylic acids, phenols, imides, thiols, thioamides, and even /3-ketoesters as carbon nucleophiles. Of major importance however is the esterification as outlined above, and its use for the clean inversion of configuration of a chiral alcohol. 

Chiral amide and imide enolates are amongst the most effective reagents providing. yv -3-hy-droxycarboxylic acids in both high simple diastereoselectivity and induced stereoselectivity, e.g., the amides 1 and 2, and especially, the imides 3 and 4 (derived from (S(-valine and (l/ ,2S)-norephedrine, respectively)93 and the C2-symmetric amide 594 are highly effective systems ... 

Alkaline hydrolysis of the adducts 6 and 7, which is fairly mild in the case of the imide adducts, liberates 3-hydroxycarboxylic acids 8 or ent-8 and simultaneously regenerates the chiral auxiliary reagent. Furthermore, both enantiomers of the 3-hydroxycarboxylic acid are available in almost optically pure form depending on which reagent is chosen as the starting material. 

In contrast to the closely related chiral imide (vide supra), the chiral (4S)-3-acetyl-4-ethyl-2-thiono-l,3-thiazolidine reacts, via the tin enolate, with a,/(-unsaturated aldehydes in a fairly stereoselective manner (d.r. 93 7 to 97.3 2.7)11... 

In another approach to the meso problem , utilization of a chiral auxiliary attached at nitrogen appears to induce very high stereoselectivity. Reduction of the optically active imide 10a (see Appendix) with tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydridc in acetone/ acetic acid at 25 "C gives a 4 96 mixture of the diastcreomers 11a and 12a in 87% yield44. On changing the solvent to acetonitrile/acetic acid the diastereomeric ratio is improved to < 1 99, but the yield is lower (63%). 

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

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... 

The synthetic potential of alkenylzirconium complexes is partially due to the fact that the hydrozirconation of alkynes can be carried out in the presence of some synthetically useful functional groups such as halide [80,153, 211, 212], acetals, amides, imides, carbamates, sulfides [186], ester, cyano [95, 213] and chiral propargyl amino functionalities [214]. 

We will see in Section 1.2.6 that the enolates of imides are very useful in synthesis. Particularly important are the enolates of chiral IV-acyloxazolidinones. 

The enolates of other carbonyl compounds can be used in mixed aldol reactions. Extensive use has been made of the enolates of esters, thiol esters, amides, and imides, including several that serve as chiral auxiliaries. The methods for formation of these enolates are similar to those for ketones. Lithium, boron, titanium, and tin derivatives have all been widely used. The silyl ethers of ester enolates, which are called silyl ketene acetals, show reactivity that is analogous to silyl enol ethers and are covalent equivalents of ester enolates. The silyl thioketene acetal derivatives of thiol esters are also useful. The reactions of these enolate equivalents are discussed in Section 2.1.4. 

A chiral aluminum-salen catalyst gives good enantioselectivity in the addition of cyanide (from TMS-CN) to unsaturated acyl imides.338... 

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. 

The target compound was obtained as a racemic mixture. Enantiomeric pure Efavirenz had to be isolated via a classical chiral resolution of a diastereo-mixture of (-) camphanate imide. 

The drug candidate 1 was prepared from chiral cyclopentanol 10 as shown in Scheme 7.3. Reaction of 10 with racemic imidate 17, prepared from the corresponding racemic benzylic alcohol, in the presence of catalytic TfOH furnished a 1 1 mixture of diastereomers 18 and 19 which were only separated from one another by careful and tedious chromatography. Reduction of ester 18 with LiBH4 and subsequent Swern oxidation gave aldehyde 20 in 68% yield. Reductive animation of 20 with (R)-ethyl nipecotate L-tartrate salt 21 and NaBH(OAc)3 and subsequent saponification of the ester moiety yielded drug candidate 1. 

Etherification of chiral 10 with racemic imidate 17 provided a diastereomeric mixture of 18 and 19, which had to be separated by silica gel column. 

Arguably the most challenging aspect for the preparation of 1 was construction of the unsymmetrically substituted sec-sec chiral bis(trifluoromethyl)benzylic ether functionality with careful control of the relative and absolute stereochemistry [21], The original chemistry route to ether intermediate 18 involved an unselective etherification of chiral alcohol 10 with racemic imidate 17 and separation of a nearly 1 1 mixture of diastereomers, as shown in Scheme 7.3. Carbon-oxygen single bond forming reactions leading directly to chiral acyclic sec-sec ethers are particularly rare since known reactions are typically nonstereospecific. While notable exceptions have surfaced [22], each method provides ethers with particular substitution patterns which are not broadly applicable. 

The original medicinal chemistry synthesis of ether 18 involved reaction of alcohol 10 with racemic imidate 17 in the presence of a catalytic amount of TfOH and furnished an approximately 1.1 1 mixture of 18 19 (Scheme 7.3) [1], We thought it worthwhile to reinvestigate this reaction with chiral imidate 67 in an effort to explore the diastereoselectivity of the etherification. 

Treatment of a mixture of alcohol 10 and chiral imidate 67 with catalytic TfOH only afforded a 1.2 to 1.3 1 mixture of 18 19 in a combined HPLC assay yield of 91%. Clearly, under these conditions, the reaction was proceeding under an SN1 reaction pathway. The use of other acid catalysts (TMSOTf, HC1, H2S04, TFA, MsOH) in a variety of solvent systems and under a number of reaction conditions did not improve the diastereomeric ratio of 18 19 (typically 1.2 1), or simply resulted in no reaction. 

Ether bond formation with chiral imidate 67. 

Ether Bond Formation with Chiral Imidate 67... 

In an effort to identify the origin of the formation of the minor diastereomer 19 and understand whether its formation was a function of a breakdown in the SN2 pathway leading to an SN1 pathway, the activation of the chiral imidate 67 was next investigated. In the etherification reaction between 10 and 67, the acid catalyst increases the electrophilicity of imidate 67 through coordination between the acid... 

Chiral diazaphosphoramides 278 were obtained from imide-amide rearrangement of the corresponding oxazaphosphorimidate precursors 277 derived from optically active (R)-/V-l-bcnzylaminopropan-2-ol (276) (Scheme 66) [104],... 

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