Lithium compounds Antibiotics

Compound 17 is the so-called (+)-Prelog-Djerassi lactonic acid derived via the degradation of either methymycin or narbomycin. This compound embodies important architectural features common to a series of macrolide antibiotics and has served as a focal point for the development of a variety of new stereoselective syntheses. Another preparation of compound 17 is shown in Scheme 3-7.11 Starting from 8, by treating the boron enolate with an aldehyde, 20 can be synthesized via an asymmetric aldol reaction with the expected stereochemistry at C-2 and C-2. Treating the lithium enolate of 8 with an electrophile affords 19 with the expected stereochemistry at C-5. Note that the stereochemistries in the aldol reaction and in a-alkylation are opposite each other. The combination of 19 and 20 gives the final product 17. 

An example prepared by tin-lithium transmetallation is compound 637, which reacts with enolizable ketones, after transmetallation with cerium(III) chloride895. This intermediate was transformed into the corresponding vinylzinc reagent and, after palladium(O)-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with aryl iodides, was used in the synthesis of the antitumor antibiotic rineomycinone B2 methyl ester940,941. The vinyllithium 627 has also been transformed into the corresponding vinyl iodide by stannylation followed by reaction with iodine. The arylation has been performed in this case by a palladium(0)-catalyzed... 

The difficultly accessible trans-syn-trans arrangement of the a-b-c ring system present in steroidal antibiotics has now been synthesized. The known enedione (39) was converted into a 6 1 mixture of the desired compound (40) and its isomer (41) by ketalization of the saturated carbonyl, followed by lithium-ammonia reduction and enolate trapping with methyl iodide. After separation, (40) was converted into the tricyclic enedione (42) by standard procedures. The transfused AB-system was then obtained by ketalization, peracid treatment, and boron trifluoride rearrangement of the resulting epoxide to the keto-diketal (43). Removal of the 6-keto-group was performed under mild conditions by a new... 

In a similar vein, Davis and co-workers have found the p-toluenesulf nyl group to be useful for such purposes. Aziridine-2-carboxylic acid derivatives 138 are prepared in high diastereomeric purity by a Darzens-type reaction of the lithium enolate of methyl bromoacetate (137) with enantiopure sulfrnimines (e.g., 136) [94JOC3243]. These compounds have been employed as intermediates in the asymmetric synthesis of the antibiotic (+)-thiamphenicol (139) [94TL7525]. 

The most recent report on the utilization of 3-hydroxybutyric acid in P-lactam synthesis has been published by Oguni and Ohkawa [73] in which a complete stereoselective synthesis of chiral intermediates for thienamycin and related antibiotics was accomplished by the reaction of the organozinc derivative of (R)-methyl-3-hydroxybutyrate with N-trimethylsilylimines (Scheme 21). The ethylzincoxylithium enolate 134 was prepared by the reaction of (R)-methyl-3-hydroxybutanoate 133 with diethylzinc followed by the reaction with lithium hexamethyldisilamide (HMDS) in tetrahydrofuran at room temperature. The resulting compound 135 was treated with AT-trimethylsilylphenylpro-pargylidenimine or iV-trimethylsilyl-trans-cinnamylidenimine in THF at room... 

The sideprepared from D-arabinose in the form of compound (30) which, with butyl-lithium followed by benzalde-hyde, gave the diastereoisomers (31) of a model antibiotic. ... 

The modification of the Peterson reaction using an N-trimethylsilylamide anion instead of an a-silyl carbanion offers a promising route to the corresponding imines. Treatment of N-(p-tolyl)-N-trimethylsilylamide anion with carbonyl compounds yields the corresponding ketimines [400]. In particular, LiHMDS has been utilized for the preparation of N-trimethylsilylimines, which are useful as masked imine derivatives in the synthesis of yS-lactam antibiotics [401-407]. Reactions of LiHMDS with non-enolizable aldehydes, enolizable aldehydes, ketones, a diketone, and a-keto esters give the respective imines (Scheme 2.153) [408-413]. Chloro-trimethylsilane is added to convert the generated lithium trimethylsilanolate into hexamethyldisiloxane. 

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