Ketones oxidation reactions, silyl enol ether derivatives

We also observed similar phenomena in the reaction of silyl enol ethers with cation radicals derived from allylic sulfides. For example, oxidation of allyl phenyl sulfide (3) with ammonium hexanitratocerate (CAN) in the presence of silyl enol ether 4 gave a-phenylthio-Y,5-un-saturated ketone 5. In this reaction, silyl enol ether 4 reacts with cation radical of allyl phenyl sulfide CR3 to give sulfonium intermediate C3, and successive deprotonation and [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement affords a-phenylthio-Y,6-unsaturated ketone 5 (Scheme 2). Direct carbon-carbon bond formation is so difficult that nucleophiles attack the heteroatom of the cation radicals. 

Enones. Two groups have reported the oxidation of silyl enol ethers to o,/3-unsaturated ketones using DDQ. This method is most suitable for cyclohexanone derivatives. Fleming and Paterson report that yields are generally improved by addition of collidine (1.5 equiv.), which presumably removes the by-product DDQHj. This last communication also reports improvements in the preparation of either the kinetic or thermodynamic silyl enol ethers by House s method (3, 310-311). By a combination of the two reactions, carvone (6) can be prepared from 2-methylcyclohexanone (1) in an overall yield of 28% (equation I). 

Given this problem, the attachment of the butanone synthon to aldehyde 74 prior to the methyl ketone aldol reaction was then addressed. To ovenide the unexpected. vTface preference of aldehyde 74, a chiral reagent was required and an asymmetric. syn crotylboration followed by Wacker oxidation proved effective for generating methyl ketone 87. Based on the previous results, it was considered unlikely that a boron enolate would now add selectively to aldehyde 73. However, a Mukaiyama aldol reaction should favour the desired isomer based on induction from the aldehyde partner. In practice, reaction of the silyl enol ether derived from 87 with aldehyde 73, in the presence of BF3-OEt2, afforded the required Felkin adduct 88 with >97%ds (Scheme 9-29). This provides an excellent example of a stereoselective Mukaiyama aldol reaction uniting a complex ketone and aldehyde, and this key step then enabled the successful first synthesis of swinholide A. 

Metal Free Transition metal catalysts are highly effective for C—H bond activation. However, transition metal complexes are not only expensive, but also difficult to remove from the reaction products, resulting in toxicity concerns. DDQ is a well-known oxidant in organic chemistry [33]. For many years, it has been used for the oxidation of alcohols to ketones and aromatization. The first intermolecular C—C bond formation was realized by DDQ-mediated Mukaiyama-type aldol reactions [34], The reactions of electron-rich benzyl ethers and silyl enol ethers afforded 3-alkoxy-3-phenylpropionyl derivatives at ambient temperature with moderate to excellent yields (Equation 11.12). 

Six-membered chiral acetals, derived from aliphatic aldehydes, undergo aldol-type coupling reactions with a-silyl ketones, silyl enol ethers," and with silyl ketene acetals " in the presence of titanium tetrachloride with high diastereoselectivities (equation 41) significant results are reported in Table 20. This procedure, in combination with oxidative destructive elimination of the chiral auxiliary, has been applied... 

Synthesis of 7 -amino acid-oxazole fragment 68 of calyculins A and B from D-erythronol-actone 58 has been reported by conversion to 59," which was subjected to oxidation reaction to afford the hemiaminal 60 (Scheme 9) Acetylation of 60 furnished 61, which was converted to ketone 62 in 88% yield. Conversion of 62 to a silyl enol ether, ozonolysis with reductive workup and O-methylation of the resultant alcohol 63 furnished 7 -lactam 64. Treatment of 64 with CAN led to 65 (60%), which was reacted with (CHj)2 A1 derivative of 66 to provide 67 (62%), which upon removal of the silyl group provided 68. 

Anion Trap. Besides formation of silyl enol ethers, TMSCl has also been applied to trap other oxide anions to form the desired trimethylsilyl derivatives. For example, reaction of ethyl 4-phenylbutanoate with l,l-dichloroethylUthium, which was generated from 1,1-dichloroethane and LDA, produced exclusively the mixed acetal as expected in 86% yield in the presence of TMSCl (eq 44). Without TMSCl, the reaction gave the corresponding ketone as the final product. However, the yield is rather low and the ketone was obtained in only 16% (eq 45). When the same reaction run with methoxymethyl 4-phenylhutanoate, it... 

The protocols for the utilization of ketone-derived silyl enol ethers in Tsuji-Trost reactions were preceded by a report of Morimoto and coworkers on the enantioselective allylation of sUyl ketene acetals 88. Without external activation, they reacted with the allylic substrate 19d in the presence of the palladium complex derived from the amidine ligand 89 to give y,5-unsaturated esters 90 in moderate chemical yield but high enantiomeric excess (Scheme 5.29) [46]. Presumably, the pivalate anion hberated during the oxidative addition functions as an activator of the silyl ketene acetal. The protocol is remarkable in view of the fact that asymmetric allylic alkylations of carboxylic esters are rare. Interestingly, the asymmetric induction originates from a ligand with an uncomplicated structure. The protocol seems however rather restricted with respect to the substitution pattern of allylic component and sUyl ketene acetal. 

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