Magnesium diisopropylamide

Esters and amides may be sulfinylated. Addition of a mixture of t-butyl acetate and sulfinate ester 19 to a THF-ether solution of magnesium diisopropylamide led to the formation of (R)-(+)-f-butyl p-toluenesulfinylacetate (49) in 90% yield (equation 14)7. t-Butyl propanoate and butanoate also underwent this sulfinylation to give 50 and 51 in yields of 68 and 45%, respectively83. The diastereomeric ratio was 1 1 for 50 and 3 7 for 51. These esters may also be obtained by alkylation of 49. Similarly, treatment of a-lithio-A, A -dimethylacetamide with sulfinate ester 19 gave (R)-( + )-N, Ar-dimethyl-p-toluene-sulfinylacetamide (52) (equation 15)84. 

Magnesium diisopropylamide, Mg[N(CH(CH3)2]2 (1). The amide is obtained1 as a pale yellow solid by reaction of BuMg(sec-Bu)2 with 2 equiv. of diisopropylamine at 25° with evolution of butanes. 

To develop new electrophilic reagents, Ricci and coworkers have described the synthesis of trimethylsilyloxy and hydroxy compounds from magnesium enolates and bis(trimethyl-silyl)peroxide. Magnesium enolates, generated using magnesium diisopropylamide, (DA)2Mg, give the hydroxycarbonyl compounds in excellent yields (equation 72, Table 8). 

Stereospecific aldol synthesis of / -hydroxy acids derived from R) + )-t-butyl-p tolysulfinyl acetate has been reported [25 Eq. (18)]. The t-BuMgBr was crucial to the enolate generation without racemization. Magnesium diisopropylamide was used in preparation of the acetate precursor. 

The condensation reaction of ester enolates with nitriles are an important general source of alkenyl-P-amino acids. In a simple example, the reaction of t-bulyl acetate with magnesium diisopropylamide and then propanenitrile led to /-butyl 3-amino-hex-2-enoate, 4.81. In addition, /-butyl 3-aminobut-2-enoate (66%), 3-amino-4-methylpent-2-enoate (74%), 3-amino-4,4-dimethylpent-2-enoate (43%), 3-amino-4-phenyIpent-2-enoate (25%) and other 4-aryl and 2-alkyl- ubstituted alkenylamino... 

At first, yields of cyclobutanes were erratic and seemed dependent on precise adherence to arbitrary conditions as well as particular batches of commercial LDA. Ratios of cyclobutane 47 to its diastereomer were -20 1. Freshly prepared LDA failed together. Addition of zinc chloride resulted in zero yield. It was then noted that the purchased LDA contained a few percent of magnesium diisopropylamide as a preservative, and that a precipitate formed in older samples of LDA. Addition of 0.1-1 equivalent of ai drous magnesium bromide in THF after the LDA treatment was then found to result in reliable ring contraction of 46 to the (cyclobutyl)boronic ester 47. The amount of diastereomer of 47 was too small to be detected by NMR (Scheme 11). 

Still s synthesis of monensin (1) is based on the assembly and union of three advanced, optically active intermediates 2, 7, and 8. It was anticipated that substrate-stereocontrolled processes could secure vicinal stereochemical relationships and that the coupling of the above intermediates would establish remote stereorelationships. Scheme 3 describes Still s synthesis of the left wing of monensin, intermediate 2. This construction commences with an aldol reaction between the (Z) magnesium bromide enolate derived from 2-methyl-2-trimethylsilyloxy-3-pentanone (21) and benzyloxymethyl-protected (/ )-/ -hydroxyisobutyraldehyde (10).2° The use of intermediate 21 in aldol reactions was first reported by Heathcock21 and, in this particular application, a 5 1 mixture of syn aldol diastereoisomers is formed in favor of the desired aldol adduct 22 (85% yield). The action of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) and magnesium(n) bromide on 21 affords a (Z) magnesium enolate that... 

A New Improved Synthesis of Tricycle Thienobenzazepines Apphcation of chemistry recently developed by Knochel" combined with the well-described halogen dance (HD) reaction, allowed preparation of our key intermediate A in only three synthetic transformations (Scheme 6.4). In this respect, treatment of 2-bromo-5-methylthiophene with hthium diisopropylamide followed by dimethylformamide afforded aldehyde 11 in good yield, lodo-magnesium exchange with conunercial 4-iodo-3-nitro anisole followed by reaction with 11 afforded the thiophene catbinol 12. Dehydroxylation of 12 provided our key intermediate A which presented the requisite functionality to examine our approach to the construction of the seven-member ring system. 

Ethyl 3-oxoalkanoates when not commercially available can be prepared by the acylation of tert-butyl ethyl malonate with an appropriate acid chloride by way of the magnesium enolate derivative. Hydrolysis and decarboxylation in acid solution yields the desired 3-oxo esters [59]. 3-Keto esters can also be prepared in excellent yields either from 2-alkanone by condensation with ethyl chloroformate by means of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) [60] or from ethyl hydrogen malonate and alkanoyl chloride usingbutyllithium [61]. Alternatively P-keto esters have also been prepared by the alcoholysis of 5-acylated Mel-drum s acid (2,2-dimethyl-l,3-dioxane-4,6-dione). The latter are prepared in almost quantitative yield by the condensation of Meldrum s acid either with an appropriate fatty acid in the presence of DCCI and DMAP [62] or with an acid chloride in the presence of pyridine [62] (Scheme 7). 

A stronger base and notably weaker nucleophile is the anion of hexamethyl-disilazane (Mc3Si)2NH, (34H). The anion, (34) , is electrogenerated ex situ, similarly to (33) , as its magnesium salt in dimethoxyethane with 15% v/v HMPA [75]. The PB (34H) is commercially available, relatively cheap, and in many respects behaves very much Kke lithium diisopropylamide (LDA). Substitution of HMPA with Ai-methyl-2-pyrrolidone was not successful [75]. 

N-Unsubstituted azomethine ylides may be generated thermally (79), and the N-metalated, 2-azaallyl anion versions may be generated by action of nonmetalhc bases such as l,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) on certain imines (80). Although they are assumed to show similar chemical properties, these two species usually show different reaction patterns, as shown in Scheme 11.7, where the regio-and stereoselectivities of the cycloadditions are quite different (24,78-80). Metala-tion of (alkylideneamino)acetonitriles can be performed with metallic bases other than LDA. Thus, butyllithium, ethylmagnesium bromide, and magnesium bromide-diisopropylamide are also effective (78). The N-magnesioazomethine... 

Preparative Methods conveniently prepared - by reaction of the magnesium enolate of r-butyl acetate (readily made with Bromomagnesium Diisopropylamide) with (-)-(lR,2S,5R)-Menthyl (S)-p-Toluenesulfinate (eq 1). It was also made in 91% yield by reacting a solution of Lithium Diisopropylamide with (R)-(+)-methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide and 7-butyl carbonate (eq 2). It should be noted that asymmetric oxidation of 7-butyl 2- p-tolylsulfinyl)acetate with a modified Sharpless reagent gave a... 

Boeckman and coworkers studied the reaction of bis(thmethylsilyl) ester (361) with aldehydes to form the silyl-substituted unsaturated ester (362 equation 86). The anion was formed with potassium or lithium diisopropylamide. Other metals, such as magnesium or aluminum, were introduce by treating the lithium anion with Lewis acids. The addition step produced a single diastereomer, en ling the effects of counterion and steric bulk on the elimination to be ascertained. Excellent selectivity for the ( )-isomer (362) may be obtained by using K or Li cations and a sterically hindered aldehyde. In studies directed toward the synthesis of substituted pseudomonic acid esters, the Peterson alkenation was utilized to form a mixture of (Z)- and ( )-alkene isomers, one example of which (365) is depicted in equation (87). In this example the conditions were optimized to form the highest degree of selectivity for the (Z)-alkene. 

Acylation (see also Acetylation, Cathylation) Acyl fluorides. Benzoylchloride (see Hippuric acid, preparation). N-Carbonylsulfamic acid chloride. Chloroacetic anhydride. Chloroacetyl chloride. Magnesium. Mesyl chloride. Methanesulfonic anhydride. 1-Morpholinocyclo-hexene. Pyridine. Sodium diisopropylamide. Sodium hydride. Trifluoroacetic anhydride. 

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