N-Acyloxazolidinones

Evans and co-workers investigated the effect of a number of -symmetric bis(oxazoline) ligands on the copper(II)-catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of an N-acyloxazolidinone with cyclopentadiene. Enantiomeric excesses of up to 99% have been reported (Scheme 3.4). Evans et al." suggested transition state assembly 3.7, with a square planar coordination environment around the central copper ion. In this scheme the dienophile should be coordinated predominantly in an cisoid fashion in... 

Recently Desimoni et used the same bis(oxazoline) ligand in the magnesium(II) catalysed Diels-Alder reaction of the N-acyloxazolidinone depicted in Scheme 3.4. In dichloromethane a modest preference was observed for the formation of the S-enantiomer. Interestingly, upon addition of two equivalents of water, the R-enantiomer was obtained in excess. This remarkable observation was interpreted in terms of a change from tetrahedral to octahedral coordination upon the introduction of the strongly coordinating water molecules. 

Stereochemical Control Through Reaction Conditions. In the early 1990s it was found that the stereochemistry of reactions of boron enolates of N-acyloxazolidinones can be altered by using a Lewis acid complex of the aldehyde or an excess of the Lewis acid. These reactions are considered to take place through an open TS, with the stereoselectivity dependent on the steric demands of the Lewis acid. With various aldehydes, TiCl4 gave a syn isomer, whereas the reaction was... 

Asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Unlike methyl crotonate, which is a weak dienophile, chiral (E)-crotonyl oxazolidinones when activated by a dialkylaluminum chloride (1 equiv.) are highly reactive and diastereoselective dienophiles. For this purpose, the unsaturated imides formed from oxazolidinones (Xp) derived from (S)-phenylalanol show consistently higher diastereoselectivity than those derived from (S)-valinol or (IS, 2R)-norephedrine. The effect of the phenyl group is attributed in part at least to an electronic interaction of the aromatic ring. The reactions of the unsaturated imide 1 shown in equation (I) are typical of reactions of unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones with cyclic and acyclic dienes. All the Diels-Alder reactions show almost complete endo-selectivity and high diastereoselectivity. Oxazolidinones are useful chiral auxiliaries for intramolecular Diels-Alder... 

Silyl enol ethers have also been used as a trap for electrophilic radicals derived from a-haloesters [36] or perfluoroalkyl iodides [32]. They afford the a-alkylated ketones after acidic treatment of the intermediate silyl enol ethers (Scheme 19, Eq. 19a). Similarly, silyl ketene acetals are converted into o -pcriluoroalkyl esters upon treatment with per fluoro alkyl iodides [32, 47]. The Et3B/02-mediated diastereoselective trifluoromethylation [48,49] (Eq. 19b) and (ethoxycarbonyl)difluoromethylation [50,51] of lithium eno-lates derived from N-acyloxazolidinones have also been achieved. More recently, Mikami [52] succeeded in the trifluoromethylation of ketone enolates... 

In conclusion, the animation of enolates of N-acyloxazolidinones with dibenzyl or di-r-butylazodicarboxylates presented the following properties (i) diastereomeric excesses in the range 80-98% (ii) good chemical yields (iii) efficient route to both chiral a-hydrazino and a-amino acid derivatives and (iv) non-destructive removal of the chiral oxazolidinone auxiliaries. 

Evans DA, Chapman KT, Bisaha J (1988) Asymmetric Diels-Alder cycloaddition reactions with chiral a,fS-iinsatiirated N-acyloxazolidinones. J Am Chem Soc 110 1238-1256... 

Evans and co-workers have reported successful diazo transfer from p-nitrobenzenesulfonyl azide (PNBSA) to the enolate derivatives of an N-acyloxazolidinone and a benzyl ester (a) Evans, D. A. Britton, T. C. Ellman, J. A. Dorow, R. L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 4011. However, we have not been able to achieve efficient diazo transfer to ketone enolates employing these conditions. For example, exposure of the lithium enolate of acetophenone to 1.2 equiv of PNBSA in THF at -TS C for 15 min gave a-diazoacetophenone in only 21% yield. 

In order to maximize the diastereoselectivity observed for an auxiliary, it would appear reasonable that the stereo controlling functional group is in a position in space as close as possible to the newly forming stereogenic centre. Chiral imide auxiliaries such as Evans N-acyloxazolidinones (1.43) are used for asymmetric alkylation and asymmetric aldol condensation (Scheme 1.10). 

Many structural variants of AT-acyloxazolidinones have been reported and exhibit different cleavage reactivity or complimentary diastereoselectivity compared to N- acyloxazolidinone (1.43). 

The procedure outlined here160,11 closely resembles the methodology detailed in Section 7.1.1.1., except for the choice of nitrogen electrophile used, which in this case is the commercially available di-tert-butyl azodicarboxylate (DBAD). The reaction of the lithium derivatives of N-acyloxazolidinones 1 with DBAD affords diastereomerically pure (>300 1) hydrazines 2 in yields exceeding 90%1 a. 

Coixjugate Addition Reactions. a,3-Unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones have been implemented as Michael acceptors, inducing chirality in the same sense as in enolate alkylation reactions. Chiral a,3-unsaturated imides undergo 1,4-addition when treated with diethylaluminum chloride (eq 55). Photochemical initiation is required for the analogous reaction with Dimethylaluminum Chloride. ... 

It has also been reported that 4-substituted-5,5-dimethyloxazoIidin-2-ones can be prepared as illustrated in eq 3. Initially, stereoselective condensation of an N-acyloxazolidinone enolate with acetone affords a functionalized acyl fragment, which is then hydrolyzed to the carboxylic acid. Reaction of the hydroxy acid with DPPA at elevated temperatures yields the target via formation of the acyl azide, Curtius rearrangement and trapping of the isocyanate intermediate by the hydroxyl group (eq 3). 

An effective chiral aluminum catalyst prepared from the bis-sulfonamide 263 was reported by Corey, Imwinkelried, Ikul, and Xiang for the Diels-Alder reaction of N-acyloxazolidinones [55]. They found that 10 mol % catalyst 266 would effect the reaction of A-acrylyl derivative 261 in 10 min at -78 °C to give the endo adduct 262 in 92 % yield and 91 % ee. The reaction of the N-crotyl derivative 197 was slower but... 

Since it had been determined that ketone or aldehyde functionality was not directly accessible from chiral A/-acyloxazolidinones, the transamination-metal alkyl addition procedure provided a conveniently expeditious alternative. The first step, transamination, proceeded in high yield by introduction of the N-acyloxazolidinone into a solution of the aluminum amide in dichloromethane at -IS C. The reaction is favored by the presence of a-heteroatom substituents and by -alcohol functionality (aldol adducts). Acceleration of the transamination in the latter case is most likely due to formation of a chelated intermediate (5) which serves to activate only the exocyclic carbonyl towards attack (equation 4). Because of the indicated activation, these aldol adducts are often the best substrates for this permutation. The effectiveness of the transamination in the case of (4) is noteworthy, as retroaldol fragmentation of this substrate usually occurs under mild base catalysis. 

It should be noted that these chiral enolate condensations are stoichiometric and self-immolative that is, the chirality of the enolate is sacrificed in its conversion to the [3-hydroxy carboxylic acid. This problem can be circumvented by using a chiral auxiliary, such as an N-acyloxazolidinone. 

Treatment of N-acyloxazolidinones with di-n-butylboron triflate in the presence of Et3N furnishes the (Z)-(O) boron enolates. These on treatment with aldehydes give the corresponding 2,3-syn aldol products (the ratio of syn- to anti- isomers is typically 99 1 ). On hydrolysis they produce chiral a-methyl-(3-hydroxy carboxylic acids, as exemplified below. The facial selectivity of the chiral boron enolate is attributed to the favored rotomeric orientation of the oxazolidinone carbonyl group, where its dipole is opposed to the enolate oxygen dipole. At the Zimmerman-Traxler transition state, the aldehyde approaches the oxazolidinone appendage from the face of the hydrogen rather than from the benzyl substituent. 

Although a, 9-unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones are good acceptors for conjugate allylation with allyltrimethylsilane, the diastereoselectivity for substrates derived from chiral oxazohdinones is not so high [432]. Intramolecular allylation of alkylidene 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 135 bearing a chiral oxazohdinone moiety is highly diastereoselective when SnCU is used as promoter (Scheme 10.156) [433]. 

Table 19 Asymmetric Diels-Alder Additions of Cyclopentadiene to a. -Unsaturated N-Acyloxazolidinones ...

The following functional groups are tolerated in electrophilic animations of N-acyloxazolidinones Br 441-443 (but see below), CEECXTISu-/ (with one equivalent... 

Chiral azo amide 68 reacts with an achiral oxazolidinone enolate to give a single product with the configuration indicated in Eq. 134, but the hydrazino amide could not be hydrolyzed.219 A remote chiral group attached to an achiral N-acyloxazolidinone directs a diastereoselctive animation as shown in Eq. 135.459... 

Aldol and related reactions may also be chelation-controlled. Boron enolates of N-acyloxazolidinones 19 are chelated in the ground state. Their reactions with aldehydes will necessitate the coordination of the aldehyde with the boron atom at transition state, so that the initial bidentate chelate will be broken (Figure 1.26). However, the titanium atom of related titanium enolates can accommodate hexa-coordination so that the initial titanium chelate 20 does not need to be disrupted. In each case, the aldol reaction leads to different syn stereoisomers (Figure L26) via transition models 21 and 22. 

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