Isocyanates 2-azetidinones from

An alternative route to chiral p-lactams was provided by reactions of electron-deficient isocyanates with chiral nucleophilic alkenes such as vinyl ethers or vinyl acetates. Chlorosulfonyl isocyanate (CSI), a commonly used reactive isocyanate [34], undergoes stereospecific 5-yn-addition to alkenes. The chlorosulfonyl group can subsequently be reductively removed from the nitrogen atom. It has been shown that reactions between CSI and (Z)- and ( )-alkenyl ethers stereoselectively give cA-3,4-disubstituted azetidinones from (Z)-olefins and tmns-3,4-... 

The 1,2-functionalization of the allene moiety in 2-azetidinone-tethered alleny-nol derivatives has also been explored [96]. Carbamate 174 was selected as the starting material for the palladium(II)-catalyzed reaction. The above carbamate was prepared from the ot-allenic alcohol 171a by treatment with tosyl isocyanate. Reaction of compound 174 was carried out at room temperature in acetonitrile in the presence of 10 mol% of Pd(OAc)2, 5 equiv of LiBr, 2 equiv of Cu(OAc)2 and 1.2 equiv of K2CO3 under an atmospheric pressure of oxygen. The 1H-XMR spectrum of the crude material displayed neither signal corresponding to the allene... 

The 2 + 2-cycloaddition of chlorosulfonyl isocyanate with chiral alkoxyallenes, derived from ethylidene and benzylidene L-erythritol and D-threitol, produces azetidi-nones that are readily converted into the corresponding tricyclic cephams. NMR and CD spectroscopy were used to assign the absolute configurations of the azetidinones... 

Mixtures of azetidinones 11 and dihydrooxazinones 12 are produced from ketone enamine and trichloroacetyl or benzoyl isocyanate via a common zwitterionic intermediate (equation 9)27. 

Dihydro-l,3-oxazin-4-ones 375 are obtained from various enamines 374 and benzoyl isocyanate in contrast, trichloroacetyl isocyanate is reported to give only the azetidinone 376 (equation 154)27. 

Sulfonyl imides(RN=S02), generated from alkylsulfamoyl chloride (RNHSOjCl) and triethylamine, react with enamines in the same way as sulfenes do, to give four-membered heterocycloadducts such as 210 Phenyl isocyanate undergoes [2 -t- 2] cycloaddition with enamines affording azetidinones (211) whereas azetidinothiones (212) have been obtained from the reaction of isothiocyanates with enamines without j8-hydrogens . ... 

The first synthesis 104, 105) of racemic thienamycin by the Merck group made use of the azetidinone (113) derived from acetoxybutadiene and chlorosulphonyl isocyanate (CSI). Reduction, hydrolysis and condensation with acetone gave the 1,3-tetrahydrooxazine (114). Introduction of the hydroxyethyl side chain by way of an aldol condensation produced predominantly the thermodynamically more stable tra s-P-lactam (115) as a mixture of R)- and (5)-isomers in the side chain. On removal of the acetone residue a proportion of the unwanted (5)-isomer crystallised from the mixture. The synthesis was continued with the mixture by way of the aldehyde (116) and the thio-acetal (117). Bromination, elimination and introduction of the iV(l) malonate residue gave (119) ready for an intramolecular alkylation reaction. 

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