Ketone trans-alkyl

The development of conditions for stoichiometric formation of both kinetically and thermodynamically controlled enolates has permitted the extensive use of enolate alkylation reactions in multistep synthesis of complex molecules. One aspect of the reaction which is crucial in many cases is the stereoselectivity. The alkylation step has a stereoelectronic preference for approach of the electrophile perpendicular to the plane of the enolate, since the electrons which are involved in bond formation are the n electrons. A major factor in determining the stereoselectivity of ketone enolate alkylations is the difference in steric hindrance on the two faces of the enolate. The electrophile will approach from the less hindered of the two faces, and the degree of stereoselectivity depends upon the steric differentiation. For simple, conformationally based cyclohexanone enolates such as that from 4 - /- b u ty I eye I o h cx an o ne, there is little steric differentiation. The alkylation product is a nearly 1 1 mixture of the cis and trans isomers. 

The anomalous products may be obtained by conversion of enamines 85 and 91 to the corresponding enolates 86 and 92 due to the effect of external base or the tetrasubstituted enamine, followed by attack on a second molecule of methyl vinyl ketone affording isomeric enolates 87 and 93. Protonation of these enolates would afford precursors to enones 88 (cis alkyl groups) and 94 (trans alkyl groups). 

Structurally rigid substrate surrogates were added to the cubic section model before more flexible molecules as the following order signifies pentacyclic, tetracyclic, tricyclic, bicyclic ketones, trans/cis-decalones, methyl cyclohexanones and alkyl cyclohexanones. The hydroxyls of cyclohexanols were oriented axially with respect to cyclohexyl rings consistent with the Jones protocol and with the obsen/ation that... 

Ketones, in which one alkyl group R is sterically demanding, only give the trans-enolate on deprotonation with LDA at —12°C (W.A. Kleschick, 1977, see p. 60f.). Ketones also enolize regioseiectively towards the less substituted carbon, and stereoselectively to the trans-enolate, if the enolates are formed by a bulky base and trapped with dialkyl boron triflates, R2BOSO2CF3, at low temperatures (D A. Evans, 1979). Both types of trans-enolates can be applied in stereoselective aldol reactions (see p. 60f.). 

The 1,6-difunctional hydroxyketone given below contains an octyl chain at the keto group and two chiral centers at C-2 and C-3 (G. Magnusson, 1977). In the first step of the antithesis of this molecule it is best to disconnect the octyl chain and to transform the chiral residue into a cyclic synthon simultaneously. Since we know that ketones can be produced from add derivatives by alkylation (see p. 45ff,), an obvious precursor would be a seven-membered lactone ring, which is opened in synthesis by octyl anion at low temperature. The lactone in turn can be transformed into cis-2,3-dimethyicyclohexanone, which is available by FGI from (2,3-cis)-2,3-dimethylcyclohexanol. The latter can be separated from the commercial ds-trans mixture, e.g. by distillation or chromatography. 

Note that the Wolff-Kishner reduction accomplishes the same overall trans-fonnation as the catalytic hydrogenation of an acylbenzene to yield an alkyl-benzene (Section 16.10). The Wolff-Kishner reduction is more general and more useful than catalytic hydrogenation, however, because it works well with both alkyl and atyl ketones. 

Scheme 4.25 Alkylation and arylation of ketones with trans-l -arenesulfonylamino-2-isoborneolsulfonylaminocyclohexane ligands.

In 2008, these authors reported a new strategy to attach chiral trans-l-arenesulfonylamino-2-isoborneolsulfonylaminocyclohexane to an achiral Frechet dendron (polyether having a repeated 3,5-dioxybenzyl structure) by a radical approach.The dendrimers obtained were successfully used in the enantioselective nucleophilic alkylation and arylation of ketones, providing... 

The epoxidation of electon-defident olefins using a nucleophilic oxidant such as an alkyl hydroperoxide is generally nonstereospecific epoxidation of both cis- and /nmv- ,/3-unsatii rated ketones gives the trans-epoxide preferentially. However, the epoxidation of cis-ofi-unsaturated ketones catalyzed by Yb-(40) gives civ-epoxides preferentially, with high enantioselectivity, because the oxidation occurs in the coordination sphere of the ytterbium ion (Scheme 26).132... 

Noyori et al. recently used ESI-MS to characterize species present in catalytically active solutions during the hydrogenation of aryl-alkyl ketones using their base-free catalyst precursors trans-[Ru((R)-tol-BINAP)((R, RJ-dpenJfHXf/ -BH ] (tol-BI-NAP = 2,2 -bis(ditolylphosphino) -1, T-binaphthyl dpen = 1,2-diphenylethylenedia-mine) in 2-propanol [9b]. Based upon ESI-MS observations, deuterium-labeling studies, kinetics, NMR observations, and other results, the authors proposed that the cationic dihydrogen complex trans-[Ru((R)-tol-BINAP)((R, R)-dpen)(H)( 2-H2)]+ is an intermediate in hydrogenations carried out in the absence of base. 

Much effort this year has been expended on chrysanthemic acid syntheses. Aratani et al. have extended earlier work on asymmetric synthesis (Vol. 6, p. 21) by decomposing various alkyl diazoacetates in 2,5-dimethylhexa-2,4-diene in the presence of chiral copper complexes to yield up to 92% of rrans-chrysanthemic acid in 88% dextrorotatory enantiomeric excess. Mitra has used ozonolysis of (+)-a-pinene to obtain, stereospecifically, the bromo-ketone (104) which undergoes Favorskii rearrangement to yield the anticipated ester (105) from which (+)-trans-chrysanthemic acid is readily obtained a second paper reports another route from (+)-car-3-ene initially to methyl (—)-c/s-chrysanthemate or to (—)-dihydro-chrysanthemolactone (106), both of which are convertible into (+)-rra s-chrysan-... 

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