Lactonization Mukaiyama

A common procedure in C-C-bond formation is the aldol addition of enolates derived from carboxylic acid derivatives with aldehydes to provide the anion of the [5-hydroxy carboxylic acid derivative. If one starts with an activated acid derivative, the formation of a [Mac lone can follow. This procedure has been used by the group of Taylor [137] for the first synthesis of the l-oxo-2-oxa-5-azaspiro[3.4]octane framework. Schick and coworkers have utilized the method for their assembly of key intermediates for the preparation of enzyme inhibitors of the tetrahydrolipstatin and tetrahydroesterastin type [138]. Romo and coworkers used a Mukaiyama aldol/lac-tonization sequence as a concise and direct route to 3-lactones of type 2-253, starting from different aldehydes 2-251 and readily available thiopyridylsilylketenes 2-252 (Scheme 2.60) [139]. 

Notably, the Mukaiyama aldol/lactonizahon approach has been used in the total synthesis of panclicin D (2-258) [139b,c] and okinonellin B (2-261) (Scheme 2.61) [139d]. In the synthesis of 2-258, aldehyde 2-254 and the ketene acetal 2-255 were used to prepare the 3-lactone 2-256 with high simple and induced diastereoselectivity. There follows an esterification with the carboxylic acid 2-257. For the synthesis of 2-261, the aldehydes 2-259 and 2-252b were employed as substrates leading initially to the (1-lac tone 2-260. 

Scheme 2.61. Syntnesis of (-)-panclicin D (2-258) and okinonellin B (2-261) employing the domino Mukaiyama aldol/lactonization reaction sequence.

The zinc chloride-mediated tandem Mukaiyama aldol-lactonization reaction of aldehydes 21 and thiopyridylketene acetals 22 gave mainly the trans isomer 23. However, if the catalyst is stannic chloride and the reaction is carried out at -78 °C, then the cyclization is highly diastereoselective and yields the cis-isomer 24 <990L1197>. 

One of the early syntheses of orlistat (1) by Hoffmann-La Roche utilized the Mukaiyama aldol reaction as the key convergent step. Therefore, in the presence of TiCU, aldehyde 7 was condensed with ketene silyl acetal 8 containing a chiral auxiliary to assemble ester 9 as the major diastereomer in a 3 1 ratio. After removal of the amino alcohol chiral auxiliary via hydrolysis, the a-hydroxyl acid 10 was converted to P-lactone 11 through the intermediacy of the mixed anhydride. The benzyl ether on 11 was unmasked via hydrogenation and the (5)-7V-formylleucine side-chain was installed using the Mitsunobu conditions to fashion orlistat (1). 

Silyl enolates are useful carbon nucleophiles in the asymmetric tandem Michael addition and lactonization (Scheme 3.3). Mukaiyama recently reported that cinchona-derived ammonium phenoxides act as activators (nucleophilic catalysis), to give highly stereocontrolled products [18-20]. In a typical PTC manner, most of the... 

RCHiCOOH - RCH=C—0.i Mukaiyama s reagent has been used for macro-lactonization of -hydroxy carboxylic acids (14,117-118). However, reaction of the substrate 2 with 1 and N(C2H5)3 in refluxing CH3CN does not lead to the expected... 

Diastereoselective /3-lactone formation was also carried out by a tandem Mukaiyama aldol lactonization between an aldehyde 132 and a thiopyridyl ketene acetal 133 (Equation 46) <2005CCL1448>. This reaction gave the /3-lactone 134 as a 10 1 (transacts) mixture of diastereoisomers and the major isomer was converted into (-)-tetrahydrolipstatin by silyl deptotection followed by a Mitsunobu coupling to form the ester. 

A diastereoselective Mukaiyama aldol lactonization between thiopyridylsilylketene acetals and aldehydes was used to form the /3-lactone ring in the total synthesis of (-)-panclicin D <1997T16471>. Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation was a key step in a total synthesis of panclicins A-E and was used to establish the stereocenter in aldehyde 140, which in turn directed the stereochemistry of subsequent reactions <1998J(P1)1373>. The /3-lactone ring was then formed by a [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of 140 with alkyl(trimethylsilyl)ketenes and a Lewis acid catalyst. 

Recently, Mukaiyama and co-workers prepared cinchona alkaloid-derived chiral quaternary ammonium phenoxide-phenol complex 23 and used it as an efficient organocatalyst for the tandem Michael addition and lactonization between oc,f-unsaturated ketones and a ketene silyl acetal 24 derived from phenyl isobutyrate. This approach permits the highly enantioselective synthesis of a series of 3,4-dihydropyran-2-ones (25), as shown in Scheme 4.11 [17]. 

Immunosuppressant (-)-FK-S06 (2). This 23-membered lactone-lactam resembles cyclosporin A, a macrocyclic polypeptide, in that they both inhibit immune responses to transplantation, but FK-506 seems to be more active. The total synthesis of (- )-FK-506 has been achieved by a process research group at Merck.1 The cyclization to a carboxamide was carried out with Mukaiyama s reagent (1) under high dilution in 81% yield. The most unusual feature of 2 is the presence of a three-keto sequence at C8, C9, and C,(l (hemiketal). 

The minor product 86, obtained in the synthesis of vertaline (61) from 84 (Scheme 9), was treated with diethyl azodicarboxylate and triphenylphosphine in the presence of benzoic acid to give the benzoate 87, with inversion of the configuration at C-2, in 77% yield. Hydrolysis of 87 followed by lactonization under Mukaiyama-Corey or Masamune conditions afforded decaline (62) in 57 or 45% yield, respectively. 

Several other methods to effect ester and lactone formation are now available. Mukaiyama uses 2-chloro-A-methylpyridinium iodide and its derivatives as a condensing agent.12 Staab s imidazole method," sue-... 

Method 2. Corey s double activation method for lactone formation is patterned after Mukaiyama s procedure for peptide formation and involves refluxing a solution of the 2-pyridinethiol ester of a hydroxy acid in a high-boiling solvent for a prolonged period of time.6... 

Meanwhile, Mukaiyama et al. [26] developed another similar procedure, by the use of 6-phenyl-2-pyridyl esters, for the synthesis of macrocychc lactones. This method has been used in the synthesis of f - - )-ricinelaidic acid lactone 40) [27]. Thus, as shown in Scheme 13, a mixture of 6-phenyl-2-pyridone, 2-chloro-l-methylpyridinium iodide 28), and triethylamine in dichloromethane was stirred at room temperature for 1 h. To this solution was added a dichloromethane solution of the hydroxy acid 38 and triethylamine under reflux over 6 h to give the activated ester 39 in 99% yield. A dichloromethane solution of 39 was added to a / -toluenesulfonic acid solution in dichloromethane under reflux over 11 h. Acid-induced lactonization led to the macrocycle 40 in 96% yield ... 

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