Mitsunobu silylation

Azetidinones.1 The dianion (BuLi) of 1 condenses with the N-aryl aldimine 2 to provide a 1 1 mixture of the trans- and cis-adducts 3. The adducts (3) can be converted by Mitsunobu silylation (inversion), oxidative degradation of the side... 

Preparation of the donor 46 was started from 4,6-0-benzylidene protected thiomannoside 47 (Scheme 7.24). Alkylation with p-allyloxybenzyl chloride under phase transfer conditions78 was followed by 3-O-silylation and Pd(0)-mediated deallylation79 to give 48. The phenolic OH group was alkylated with ethyl 6-bromohexanoate and carboxylic acid, liberated by alkaline hydrolysis, was reacted with PEG monomethyl ether (MW -5000) under Mitsunobu conditions to afford 46. 

Jin and Weinreb reported the enantioselective total synthesis of 5,11-methano-morphanthridine Amaryllidaceae alkaloids via ethynylation of a chiral aldehyde followed by allenylsilane cyclization (Scheme 4.6) [10]. Addition of ethynylmagnesium bromide to 27 produced a 2 1 mixture of (S)- and (R)-propargyl alcohols 28. Both of these isomers were separately converted into the desired same acetate 28 by acetylation or Mitsunobu inversion reaction. After the reaction of 28 with a silyl cuprate, the resulting allene 29 was then converted into (-)-coccinine 31 via an allenylsilane cyclization. 

The synthesis of chiral liquid-crystalline allenes was reported by Tschierske and co-workers (Scheme 4.10) [14]. An asymmetric reduction of 41 with Alpine borane was a key step to an enantioenriched allene 44. After removal of the silyl group, the allenic alcohol was etherified by the Mitsunobu method to give 45, the first liquid-crystalline allene derivatives. 

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). 

Enantiopure 72 was converted to 73 by performing the Mitsunobu reaction. An exchange of protecting groups was then carried out (for reasons outlined in previous sections) and the free alcohol 74 generated. Subsequent O-silylation formed the RRM precursor 71 in a 90% yield. The metathesis and the subsequent silyl ether cleavage were performed in a one pot procedure to give 69 (Scheme 23). 

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. 

Mitsunobu reaction as well as by mesylation and subsequent base treatment failed, the secondary alcohol was inverted by oxidation with pyridinium dichromate and successive reduction with sodium borohydride. The inverted alcohol 454 was protected as an acetate and the acetonide was removed by acid treatment to enable conformational flexibility. Persilylation of triol 455 was succeeded by acetate cleavage with guanidine. Alcohol 456 was deprotonated to assist lactonization. Mild and short treatment with aqueous hydrogen fluoride allowed selective cleavage of the secondary silyl ether. Dehydration of the alcohol 457 was achieved by Tshugaejf vesLCtion. The final steps toward corianin (21) were deprotection of the tertiary alcohols of 458 and epoxidation with peracid. This alternative corianin synthesis needed 34 steps in 0.13% overall yield. 

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