Imines Pivaldehyde

However, in the presence of a catalytic amount of tris(dimethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate ( TASF ), pivaldehyde imine yields the N-unsubstituted adduct, whereas acetone imine leads to the corresponding BSMA amides accompanied with the addition product of THF to DMAD. Formation of amides might be explained by the loss of HC1 from the iminium resulting from condensation of acyl chloride with imine, leading to a vinyl amide which is easily hydrolyzed. No explanation was presented for the formation of the THF adduct.241... 

Stereoselective aU lation. As an extension of a method for diastereoselective alkylation of a-amino acids (14, 263—264), Seebach et aL have converted this simple -amino acid into the 2-(-butylperhydropyrimidinone 2 via an imine with pivaldehyde. 

This reaction is restricted to derivatives of N-benzylideneaniline since cyclohexane carbaldehyde or pivaldehyde with aniline give the product in less than 10% yield. More surprisingly, the reaction of acylzirconocene chloride 38 with imine proceeds with a Bronsted acid, even in aqueous media. Although, the hydrolysis of acylzirconocene into aldehyde is a well-known process (see Scheme 12.22), the reaction with N-phenyl imine is much faster. Under 20mol% HCl/THF, the... 

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