Intermediate compounds chiral sulfoxides

The large sulfur atom is a preferred reaction site in synthetic intermediates to introduce chirality into a carbon compound. Thermal equilibrations of chiral sulfoxides are slow, and parbanions with lithium or sodium as counterions on a chiral carbon atom adjacent to a sulfoxide group maintain their chirality. The benzylic proton of chiral sulfoxides is removed stereoselectively by strong bases. The largest groups prefer the anti conformation, e.g. phenyl and oxygen in the first example, phenyl and rert-butyl in the second. Deprotonation occurs at the methylene group on the least hindered site adjacent to the unshared electron pair of the sulfur atom (R.R. Fraser, 1972 F. Montanari, 1975). 

The synthesis of 3 was initiated by reaction of wBuLi with the protected cyclopentenone 2 generating the corresponding vinyllithium reagent by halogen-metal exchange. Subsequent condensation with (S)-(-)-menthyl para-toluenesulfinate (13) provides the enantiodefined sulfoxide substituent in 3.5 Since thermal equilibration of chiral sulfoxides at room temperature is slow, the large sulfur atom is a preferred reaction site in synthetic intermediates to introduce chirality into carbon compounds. 

Synthesis of P-Keto Sulfoxides. Optically active p-keto sulfoxides are very useful building blocks (eq 4) because they can be stereoselectively reduced to afford either diastereomer of the corresponding p-hydroxy sulfoxide under appropriate conditions (Diisobutylaluminum Hydride or Zinc ChloridefDlBALf and thus give access to a wide variety of compounds chiral carbinols by desulfurization with Raney Nickel or LithiumJethyhmme ini the case of allylic alcohols epoxides via cyclization of the derived sulfonium salt butenolides by alkylation of the hydroxy sulfoxide 1,2-diols via a Pummerer rearrangement followed by reduction of the intermediate. ... 

Enantiomerically pure sulfoxides are important intermediates in organic synthesis (21) and quite a number of pharmaceuticals and other biologically active compounds harbor a chiral sulfoxide unit (22). With respect to oxidation catalysis, enantiomerically enriched sulfoxides can either be accessed by asymmetric sulfoxidation of prochiral thioethers (Scheme 7, path a), or by kinetic resolution of racemic sulfoxides (Scheme 7, path b). For the latter purpose, enantio-specific oxidation of one sulfoxide enantiomer to the sul-fone, followed by separation, is the method of choice. 

Hydroxy-L-prolin is converted into a 2-methoxypyrrolidine. This can be used as a valuable chiral building block to prepare optically active 2-substituted pyrrolidines (2-allyl, 2-cyano, 2-phosphono) with different nucleophiles and employing TiQ as Lewis acid (Eq. 21) [286]. Using these latent A -acylimmonium cations (Eq. 22) [287] (Table 9, No. 31), 2-(pyrimidin-l-yl)-2-amino acids [288], and 5-fluorouracil derivatives [289] have been prepared. For the synthesis of p-lactams a 4-acetoxyazetidinone, prepared by non-Kolbe electrolysis of the corresponding 4-carboxy derivative (Eq. 23) [290], proved to be a valuable intermediate. 0-Benzoylated a-hydroxyacetic acids are decarboxylated in methanol to mixed acylals [291]. By reaction of the intermediate cation, with the carboxylic acid used as precursor, esters are obtained in acetonitrile (Eq. 24) [292] and surprisingly also in methanol as solvent (Table 9, No. 32). Hydroxy compounds are formed by decarboxylation in water or in dimethyl sulfoxide (Table 9, Nos. 34, 35). 

Titanium compounds are frequently investigated as Lewis acids in radical reactions [677-680]. When addition of an alkyl radical to a chiral vinylsulfoxide was conducted in the absence or presence of Ti(0-/-Pr)2Cl2, the stereochemistry of the product was reversed, very high diastereoselectivity being observed in the presence of the titanium salt (Eq. 302) [681,682]. The stereochemistry and high selectivity in the presence of the titanium salt were readily rationalized on the basis of a chelation intermediate between the titanium metal and the carbonyl and sulfoxide oxygens, as shown in Eq. (302). 

A second, isolated example of construction of useful chiral azetidinones by the N-C4 bonding strategy utilizes the phenylsulfinylpropionamide 93a as starting material. Treatment of this compound with TMSOTf/TEA promoted a Pummerer rearrangement concerted with lactamization to 93b [43a]. Starting from the ( — )-sulfoxide enantiomer, obtained by HPLC resolution with a chiral stationary fase (cellulose tribenzoate), the 4/ -phenylthio enantiomer was obtained in 67% optical yield [43b]. Hydroxyethylation of this intermediate is described in Sect. 3.1. 

For the first time, a homochiral MOF membrane was reported by Wang et al. [167] for the enantioselective separation of chiral compounds, especially chiral drug intermediates. In this study, a homochiral MOF material [Zn2(bdc)(L-lac)(dmf)] (DMF) (ZnBLD) was used for the preparation of an MOF separation membrane through the solvothermal reaction of a metal cation, a chiral ligand, and an organic connector. Zn-BLD exhibits preferential adsorption ability to (S)-methyl phenyl sulfoxide (S-MPS) over R-MPS. They claimed that this membrane will allow potential development of a new, sustainable, and highly efficient chiral separation technique. 

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