Mukaiyama-Michael addition silyl ether

A highly enantioselective Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl ethers, CH2= C(OSiMe3)R1, to a,/9-unsaturated aldehydes, R2CH=CHCHO, catalysed by MacMillan s chiral imidazolidinone (150), in the presence of 2,4-(N02)2C6H3C02H as an acid... 

The use of simple silyl enol ethers for the asymmetric organocatalyzed Mukaiyama-Michael addition was recently reported. For reference, see W. Wang, H. Li, J. Wang, Org. Lett. 

The Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl enolates to a, -unsaturated thioesters is promoted by an SbCl5-Sn(OTf)2 binary catalyst to afford d-keto thioesters with high anti selectivity (Scheme 14.23) [60]. The successive treatment of lactones with a ketene silyl acetal and silyl nucleophiles in the presence of an SbCl5-Me3SiCl-Snl2 ternary catalyst yields a-mono- and a/ -disubstituted cyclic ethers (Scheme 14.24) [61]. SbFs promotes the condensation of a,y5-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones with a-diazo-carbonyl compounds to give cyclopropane derivatives in high isomeric purity [62]. 

As will be shown, the stereochemistry of Mukaiyama-Michael additions is in many instances insensitive to the stereochemistry of the silyl enol ether used. This method is potentially advantageous relative to the direct conjugate addition of ketone enolates when it is impossible to obtain the enolate or silyl enol ethers in a stereoisomerically pure form. 

The geometry of the silyl enol ether has only a slight influence on the stereochemistry of the Mukaiyama-Michael addition. For example, the Z silyl enol ether in entry 5 (Table 10) provides a 35 65 (syn/anti) mixture of diastereomers. With the corresponding E silyl enol ether (entry 25), a 23 77 (syn/anti) mixture of diastereomers results. 

In all instances, the Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl enol ethers is anti selective. For the most part, however, the selectivity is only modest. A... 

In some instances, particularly when a dependence of the stereochemistry on the double-bond geometry of either the acceptor or donor is observed, it appears likely that the stereochemistry-determining step is the initial conjugate addition. The stereochemical consequences of Lewis-acid-mediated additions of silyl enol ethers (116) and allylsilanes (117,118) have frequently been rationalized by open-extended transition states. Similar pathways seem likely with the Mukaiyama-Michael addition (vide infra) (77,79). 

This reaction was first reported by Mukaiyama et al. in 1974. It is a Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael conjugate addition of silyl enol ether to o ,/3-unsaturated compounds. Therefore, it is generally referred to as the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction. Because this reaction is essentially a conjugate addition, it is also known as the Mukaiyama-Michael addition or Mukaiyama-Michael conjugate addition. This reaction is a mechanistic complement for the base-catalyzed Michael addition, j and often occurs at much milder conditions and affords superior regioselectivity. s Besides silyl enol ether, silyl ketene acetals are also suitable nucleophiles in this reaction.For the hindered ketene silyl acetals, the Lewis acid actually mediates the electron transfer from the nucleophiles to o ,/3-unsaturated carbonyl molecules.On the other hand, the Q ,j8-unsaturated compounds, such as 3-crotonoyl-2-oxazolidinone, alkylidene malonates, and a-acyl-a,/3-unsaturated phosphonates are often applied as the Michael acceptors. It has been found that the enantioselectivity is very sensitive to the reactant structures —for example, Q -acyl-Q ,j8-unsaturated phosphonates especially prefers the unique syn- vs anft-diastereoselectivity in this reaction. In addition,... 

Dihydropyran derivatives can be synthesized facilely by a smooth oxidative Mukaiyama-Michael addition followed by a cyclization with silyl enol ethers in the presence of Dess Martin periodinane (DMP) and pyridine under mild reaction conditions from MBH adducts in a one-pot process (Scheme 4.95). Notably, these dihydropyrans were obtained exclusively as cw-isomers in good yields. Moreover, all the reactions worked very well, irrespective of whether MBH adducts were derived from aliphatic or aromatic aldehydes, and silyl enol ethers were derived from acetophenone, cyclohexanone or cyclopentanone. 

Scheme 2.50 PTC Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl enol ethers to chtJcones...

Maruoka et al. have developed and used A-spiro C2-symmetric chiral quaternary ammonium bifluorides [151] 102, 103, and more recently 104, to promote the regio- and anti-selective Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl nitronates to a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes [152], cyclic a,P-unsaturated ketones [153], and nitroalk-enes [154] with good yields and enantioselectivities (Scheme 2.52). Final chiral silyl enol ethers are easily hydrolyzed to the corresponding carbonyl compounds or functionalized at the a-position by reaction with electrophiles. 

The Yamamoto group developed tethered bis(8-quinolinolato)-Al complex 26-catalysed asymmetric Mukaiyama-Michael additions of silyl enol ethers to ot,p-unsaturated acyl phosphonates (Scheme 19.30). A range of tetra-substituted trimethylsilyl enol ethers reacted well and formed the adducts with all-carbon quaternary stereocentres in 80-99% enantiomeric excess. 

Scheme 19.30 A mmetric Mukaiyama-Michael additions of silyl enol ethers to a,p-unsaturated atyl phosphonate catalysed by bis(8-quinolinolato)-Al complex.

Keywords Baylis-Hillman adducts, silyl enol ethers, Dess-Martin periodinane (DMP), pyridine, dichloromethane, room temperature, oxidative Mukaiyama-Michael addition, diaster-eoselective cyclization, c -fused dihydrpyrans... 

The highly electrophilic cationic bis(8-quinolinolato)aluminum complex 407 enabled Yamamoto and coworkers to perform Mukaiyama-Michael additions of silyl enol ethers to crotonylphosphonates 406. The procedure was not only applicable to enol silanes derived from aryl methyl and alkyl methyl ketones (a-unsubstituted silicon enolates) but also to several cycfic a-disubstituted silyl enol ethers, as illustrated for the derivatives of a-methyl tetralone and indanone 405 in Scheme 5.105. Despite the steric demand of that substitution pattern, the reaction occurred in relatively high chemical yield with varying diastereoselectivity and excellent enantiomeric excess of the major diastereomer. The phosphonate residue was replaced in the course of the workup procedure to give the methyl esters 408. The protocol was extended inter alia to the silyl enol ether of 2,6,6-tetramethylcyclohexanone. The relative and absolute configuration of the products 408 was not elucidated [200]. 

Jung and coworkers reported AlBr3/Me3Al system as an effective mixed Lewis acid system for Diels-Alder reaction of sterically hindered dienophiles and dienes (Scheme 6.126) [150]. It was proposed that this reaction proceeds via Mukaiyama-Michael addition of silyl enol ether moiety to cyclohexenone followed by intramolecular Michael like process. 

Conditions for effecting conjugate addition of neutral enolate equivalents such as silyl enol ethers in the presence of Lewis acids have been developed and are called Mukaiyama-Michael reactions. Trimethylsilyl enol ethers can be caused to react with electrophilic alkenes by use of TiCl4. These reactions proceed rapidly even at -78° C.308... 

The titanium(IV) chloride-catalyzed conjugate addition of enol silyl ethers (182) to (184) and (189 Scheme 30), and silyl ketene acetals, (191) to (194), to ot, 3-enones is die key feature in various synthetic strategies (Mukaiyama-Michael) (Scheme 31).78 79 In contrast to the earlier described enolate addition... 

Mukaiyama-Michael reaction1 (13, 339-340 14, 344-345). The conjugate addition of enol silyl ethers of optically active ketones to a,(i-enones catalyzed by trityl perchlorate can proceed with high diastereoselectivity. Thus the (Z)-enol silyl ether (2) of the ketone (R)-l reacts with enone 3 to give the 1,5-ketone 4 with high... 

The monographs (8,9) also present clear expositions of methods of synthesis. A recent communication addressing a short approach to both symmetrical and unsymmetrical tetrahydrofurofuran lignans is outlined in Scheme 32 (149). Michael addition of the sodium salt of the silyl monoprotected diol (155) to the a-sulfonylcinnamate (156) gave the ether (157) which on desulfurization and hydrolysis gave the hydroxy acid (158). Lactonization of (158) by the Mukaiyama method... 

Stereoselective Mukaiyama-Michael reactions, Heathcock et alJ have investigated the syn anti stereoselectivity in the reaction of twelve silyl enol ethers with a variety of acyclic and cyclic enones catalyzed by TiCh or SnCh. Preliminary results suggest that the stereoselectivity is independent of the geometry of the silyl enol ether, and that silyl enol ethers derived from aliphatic ketones show a preference for (2n /-addition ranging from 1.5 1 to 10 1. The preference for a/ift-addition is even higher in the case of (Z)-silyl enol ethers of aromatic ketones (10 1 to >20 1). However, high 5y/i-selectivity is observed with acyclic -butyl enones. 

The second major modification was developed by Mukaiyama and coworkers (4) and Hosomi and Sakurai (5). These workers found that weakly nucleophilic silyl enol ethers and allylsilanes add to a,/ -unsaturated ketones that have been precomplexed with a Lewis acid. This process formally mimics the protic-acid-catalyzed Michael addition but allows for regiocontrol over enol generation. 

Protic-acid-catalyzed Michael additions (59) are subject to most of the limitations of base-catalyzed Michael additions (regioselectivity and stereoselectivity of enol generation, polyaddition, etc.), and hence, the stereochemistry has been little studied (60). At low temperatures silyl and stannyl enol ethers,+ ketene acetals, and allyl species are unreactive to all but the most reactive activated olefins. However, it was discovered by Mukaiyama and co-workers that enol ethers and ketene acetals react with a,/f-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in the presence of certain Lewis acids (4,61,62). Sakurai, Hosomi, and co-workers found that allylsilanes behave similarly (5,63,64). 

Michael reaction. Great activity is exhibited by Zn(OTf)2 for promoting the Mukaiyama version of the Michael addition involving the enol silyl ether of methyl a-diazoacetoacetate and conjugated cycloaUrenones. 

In 1974,Mukaiyama and co-workers reported the first examples of Lewis acid-catalyzed Michael reactions between silyl enolates and a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [33]. Evans and co-workers developed a catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction of silyl enol ethers of thiol esters to alkylidene malonates. For example, the reaction of alkylidene malonate 23 with 2.2 equiv of silyl enol ether 22 was carried out in the presence of 10 mol % of catalyst 25 and 2 equiv of hexa-fluoro-2-propanol (HFIP) in PhMe/CH2Cl2 (3 1) at -78 °C to give the expected adduct 24 in 93% ee (Scheme 5) [34]. Borane complex-catalyzed asymmetric Michael addition has also been reported [35]. 

The catalytic asymmetric Michael reaction using silyl enol esters (Mukaiyama-Michael reaction) as the pronucleophiles has been reported using a titanium/BINOL catalyst (in up to 90% ee). Considering furan (11.36) as a silyl enol ether, this has been shown to undergo nucleophilic addition to the Michael acceptor (11.37). The product (11.38) canbe obtained with excellent diastereocon-trol with the scandium complex of hgand (11.39), or with excellent enantiocontrol... 

Alternatively, the iminium-activation strategy has also been apphed to the Mukaiyama-Michael reaction, which involves the use of silyl enol ethers as nucleophiles. In this context, imidazolidinone 50a was identified as an excellent chiral catalyst for the enantioselective conjugate addition of silyloxyfuran to a,p-unsaturated aldehydes, providing a direct and efficient route to the y-butenolide architecture (Scheme 3.15). This is a clear example of the chemical complementarity between organocatalysis and transition-metal catalysis, with the latter usually furnishing the 1,2-addition product (Mukaiyama aldol) while the former proceeds via 1,4-addition when ambident electrophiles such as a,p-unsaturated aldehydes are employed. This reaction needed the incorporation of 2,4-dinitrobenzoic acid (DNBA) as a Bronsted acid co-catalyst assisting the formation of the intermediate iminium ion, and also two equivalents of water had to be included as additive for the reaction to proceed to completion, which... 

In some cases, using the silyl enol ethers form of nucleophiles in the asymmetric Michael reactions is necessary for ensuring high reactivity and selectivity. MacMillan and co-workers [113] developed the first enantioselective organocata-lytic Mukaiyama-Michael reaction for the synthesis of enantioenriched 7-butenolide architecture in 2003. In the presence of chiral imidazolidinone catalyst 120 with acid additive, the reactions of silyloxy furan 118 with simple a,(3-unsaturated aldehydes... 

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