Nitroalkenes conjugate additions

The conjugate addition of (R)- or fS -4-phenyl-2-oxa2oLidinone to nitroalkenes is catalyzed by r-BuOK at -78 C to give the addition product v/ith excellent diastereoselecdvity, the products are converted into vicinal diamines fEq 4 28 ... 

A second important reaction type considered in this chapter is conjugate addition, which involves addition of nucleophiles to electrophilic double or triple bonds. A crucial requirement for this reaction is an electron-withdrawing group (EWG) that can stabilize the negative charge on the intermediate. We focus on reactions between enolates and a,(3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and other electrophilic alkenes such as nitroalkenes. 

Scheme 2.23 provides some examples of conjugate addition reactions. Entry 1 illustrates the tendency for reaction to proceed through the more stable enolate. Entries 2 to 5 are typical examples of addition of doubly stabilized enolates to electrophilic alkenes. Entries 6 to 8 are cases of addition of nitroalkanes. Nitroalkanes are comparable in acidity to (i-ketocslcrs (see Table 1.1) and are often excellent nucleophiles for conjugate addition. Note that in Entry 8 fluoride ion is used as the base. Entry 9 is a case of adding a zinc enolate (Reformatsky reagent) to a nitroalkene. Entry 10 shows an enamine as the carbon nucleophile. All of these reactions were done under equilibrating conditions. 

The products of the conjugate addition of (f )-4-phenyl-2-oxazolidinone to nitroalkenes are converted into D-a-amino acids with high enantiomeric purity (Eq. 4.30).36... 

Recently, very effective asymmetric conjugate addition of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds to nitroalkenes has been reported, as shown in Scheme 4.10. The reaction of ethyl acetoacetate with nitrostyrene is carried out in the presence of 5 mol% of the preformed complex of magnesium triflate and chiral bis(oxazoline) ligands and a small amount ofW-methylmorpholine (NMM) to give the adduct with selectivity of 91%. The selectivity depends on ligands. The effect of ligands is presented in Scheme 4.10.63... 

A variety of carbanions have been employed forthe conjugate addition to nitroalkenes recent results are shown in Table 4.1. 

Seebach and coworkers have developed enantioselective conjugate additions of primary dialkylzinc reagents to 2-aryl- and 2-heteroaryl-nitroalkenes mediated by titanium-TADDO-Lates (Eq. 4.90). x a TADDOLs and their derivatives are excellent chiral auxiliaries.9611... 

Clearly, the nitroalkene dipolarophile oxidoisoquinolinium betaine 123 is nonideal for the synthesis of the hetisine alkaloids, as mass throughput for the needed cycloadduct would be low, and conversion of the tertiary nitro group to carbon-based functionality, as would be required in the latter stages of the synthesis, could be problematic. On the other hand, an ene-nitrile dipolarophile has several potential advantages over nitroalkene dipolarophile. Most importantly, the ene-nitrile cycloadduct has carbon functionality installed at the C-10 position. Second, the conjugate addition byproduct pathway that occurs so readily for the nitroalkene oxidoisoquinolinium betaine 123 system (see Scheme 1.13) should be much slower... 

When ene-nitrile oxidoisoquinolium betaine 131 was heated as a dilute solution in toluene to 120 °C (Scheme 1.15), near quantitative conversion to the cycloadduct 133, resulting from the undesired regioselectivity, was observed. While the near complete conversion to cycloadduct 133 of oxidoisoquinolinium betaine 131 indeed demonstrated complete avoidance of the conjugate addition pathway in favor of cycloaddition, initial production of undesired isomeric cycloadduct 133 (instead of 136) was disappointing. Notably, cycloadduct 133 is expected to be less kinetically favored based on frontier molecular orbital (FMO) analysis (assuming dipole HOMO-controlled cycloaddition) of the putative transition state. This result stands in contrast to the cycloaddition of nitroalkene oxidoisoquinolinium betaine... 

The palladium-catalysed decarboxylative carbonylation of 5-vinyloxazolidin-2-ones 218 caused, unexpectedly, a ring enlargement process to 5-lactams 219 <00JA2944>. The conjugate addition of 4-phenyloxazolidin-2-one to a nitroalkene was used for the synthesis of diastereoisomers of dethiobiotin <00EJO3575>. Attempted deprotection of the O-TBDMS... 

Silylation of Products of Conjugated Addition of Nucleophiles to a-Nitroolefins Nitroalkane anions can be generated not only by deprotonation of nitroalkanes (various modifications of these process were considered above) but also by the conjugated addition of nucleophiles 56 to a-nitroalkenes (42) (Scheme 3.56, Table 3.2). 

In 1993, Alexakis et al. reported the first copper-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of diethylzinc to 2-cyclohexenone using phosphorous ligand 28 (32% ee).36 An important breakthrough was achieved by Feringa et al. with chiral phosphoramidite (S,R,R)-29 (Figure 1), which showed excellent selectivity (over 98% ee) for the addition of 2-cyclohexenone.37 Since then, efficient protocols for the conversion of both cyclic and acyclic enones, as well as lactones and nitroalkenes, have been developed featuring excellent stereocontrol. 

The enantioselective conjugate addition of dialkylzinc to nitroalkenes using other phosphoramidite,79,79a 83a sulfonamide,84 and binaphthol-based thioether ligands65 has also been studied in the past few years. Particularly noteworthy are the efficient chiral monodentate phosphoramidite ligands (S,R,R)-29 and (A,A)-55 developed by Feringa et al. and Alexakis et al., respectively, for this reaction. (S,R,R)-29 provided excellent enantioselectivities (up to 98% ee) for acyclic nitroalkenes (Scheme 25).80 It also worked well for other nitroolefin substrates such as 3-nitrocoumarin 7068 and methyl 3-nitropropenoate 7185. 

Alexakis et al. showed that under optimized experimental conditions, the enantioselectivity of the Cu-catalyzed conjugate addition of dialkylzinc to cyclic nitroolefin was improved to 95% with both (A,A)-55 and (R,S,S)-29.79,79a Biphenol-based phosphoramidite ligand (S,S)-55 also provided acyclic nitroalkenes adducts with 95-96% ee.42... 

Ojima and co-workers found that chiral monodentate phosphoramidite (S,R,R)-35 was highly effective for the enantioselective conjugate addition of diethylzinc to acyclic nitroalkenes (up to 99% ee).86... 

Intramolecular nitrile oxide cycloaddition. The conjugate addition of t-butyl isocyanide to a nitroalkene can generate a nitrile oxide, which can be trapped intramolecularly by a double bond to form an isoxazoline. 

Diastereoselective tandem conjugate addition of both oxygen- and nitrogen-centred nucleophiles (potassium phthalimide, TsNHK, MeONa, and MesSiOK) to the novel (IN)-lO-camphorsulfonic acid-derived nitroalkenes (139 R = Me, Pr, and... 

A -Formylnorephedrine (149) has been employed as the first chiral hydroxide equivalent in conjugate additions to aliphatic (Ej-nitroalkenes (150 R = Me, Et, Pr, Pr , Bu, cyclohexyl, Ph, furyl, ferrocenyl, etc.) good yields (35-87%) and excellent diastereoselectivities (94-98% de) have been attained. Transition states, accounting for the overall stereochemical outcome, were presented. ... 

In conjunction with the Knoevenegal reaction, a Michael addition (Figure 22) reaction was also described by Jaekson et al. using the same siliea supported tertiary amines for the catalysis of conjugate addition of nitroalkenes to a,y9-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. At a flow rate of 6.6 pL/min the eonversion rate was constant with a high yield for 7 hours reaction time. 

Asymmetric Conjugate Addition with NitroaLkenes and Sulfones. 157... 

The first organocatalyzed conjugate addition of a-substituted p-ketoester to a,P-unsaturated ketones was presented by Deng et al. [42] (Scheme 3). Although traditional Cinchona alkaloids were efficient catalysts for conjugate addition of carbon nucleophiles to nitroalkenes and sulfones, replacement of the C(9)-OH with an ester group (Q-7b) showed great improvement in stereoselectivity. The reaction is applicable to a variety of cyclic and acyclic enones (16,18). 

Asymmetric Conjugate Addition with Nitroalkenes and Sulfones... 

The (—)-sparteine-lithium compounds 409 undergo a facile conjugate addition to 1-nitroalkenes 410 with high enantio- and diastereoselectivity (equation n 1)289,295,296 (lZ)-3,4-5yw-diastereomers 411 are produced. A manifold of synthetically useful transformations of nitroenamines 411 has been worked out. Equation 112 presents a few of them utilizing the diphenyl derivatives 411a . The enantiomers ent-412-ent-416 are available via inversion of 409 by stannylation/lithiodestannylation with slightly decreased overall selectivities . 

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