Tandem reactions Mukaiyama aldol reaction

Although the saturated ketone can be obtained in nearly quantitative yields, the loss of synthetically valuable functionality is unfavorable and can be overcome by a modification of the tandem sequence. The use of the corresponding unsaturated silyl enol ethers in a tandem hydroformyla-tion/Mukaiyama aldol reaction gives the desired aldol adduct with complete... 

Lewis Acid Catalyzed Reactions. S amarium iodide catalyzes several transformations by presumably acting as a Lewis acid. For example, it is an efficient catalyst for the imino-Diels-Alder (eq 70) and for imino-aldol reactions. Tandem Mukaiyama-Michael-aldol (eq 71) and Michael imino-aldol processes have also been reported. ... 

The synthetic utility of the Mukaiyama aldol reaction is broadened when coupled with other reactions in a tandem fashion. Romo and coworkers developed a highly diastereoselective tandem Mukaiyama aldol-lactonization... 

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>. 

This method can also be applied to silyl enol ethers of homologous unsaturated ketones as well as of unsaturated aldehydes or esters [85-87]. While unmodified unsaturated esters give only the corresponding aldehydes without cyclization under tandem hydroformylation/aldol reaction conditions, the corresponding silylated ester enolates smoothly cyclize in a tandem hy-droformylation/ Mukaiyama aldol reaction (Scheme 32) [85-87]. 

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. 

Obrecht, D., Zumbrunn, C., Mueller, K. Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of [1,4]Oxazin-2-ones and a-Alkynyl Ketones via a Tandem Mukaiyama-Aldol Addition/Aza-Cope Rearrangement. J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 6891-6895. 

The latter process can form part of a novel tandem addition reaction.[19c] The lack of accompanying silyl transfer is in contrast to other asymmetric Mukaiyama-type aldol reactions. [20]... 

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