Nitrone-olefin intramolecular

Several elegant synthetic strategies have been devised for biotin (1) this chapter describes one of the total syntheses developed at Hoffmann-La Roche. This insightful synthesis employs a derivative of L-cysteine, a readily available member of the chiral pool,2 as the starting material, and showcases the powerful intramolecular nitrone-olefin [3+2] cycloaddition reaction. 

The elegant, enantiospecific synthesis of biotin (1) by Hoffmann-La Roche1 is based on a strategy that takes advantage of the powerful intramolecular nitrone-olefin cycloaddition reaction. Our analysis begins with model studies in which the straightforward conversion of L-cysteine (2) into aldehyde 3 (see Scheme 1) constitutes... 

The total synthesis of biotin (1) described in this chapter provides an impressive example of the intramolecular nitrone-olefin [3+2] cycloaddition reaction. Aiming for a practical process, the Hoff-mann-La Roche group utilized relatively simple and inexpensive starting materials, and ingeniously controlled the crucial [3+2] cycloaddition reaction to give only one stereoisomer by confining the cycloaddition precursor to a ten-membered ring. 

Intramolecular Silyl Nitronate-Olefin Cycloaddition (ISOC)... 

The Michael addition of allyl alcohols to nitroalkenes followed by intramolecular silyl nitronate olefin cycloaddition (Section 8.2) leads to functionalized tetrahydrofurans (Eq. 4.15).20... 

Intramolecular cyclizations of silyl nitronates were also used in the preparation of aminosugars. In 2003 Kudoh et al. reported the stereoselective conversion of 2-nitroalkanols by silyl nitronate generation followed by an intramolecular nitronate-olefin [3 + 2] cycloaddition reaction (Scheme 51).88... 

In this case, the exojendo selection coincides with the ratio of cis and trans annulation of ring A (formed by the cycloaddition) and ring B (formed from the tether which connects the reactive sites in the starting material). By means of the intramolecular cycloaddition, the exojendo selection may be significantly improved in a predictable manner (Section 2.3.6.). The exojendo problem is characteristic of all types of cycloadditions and enc reactions for instance, nitrone-olefin cycloaddition. 

Using this methodology, the first total synthesis of the natural product (-)-(19R)-ibogamin-19-ol was reported [106]. The crucial ISQ core containing the entire configurational stereochemistry of the final target compound was prepared in 15 steps. The two key steps involved chirality transfer in an Ireland-Claisen rearrangement and an intramolecular nitrone-olefin 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition described earlier. 

Dihydrofuraldehydes were prepared by an intramolecular silyl nitronate olefin cycloaddition with subsequent acidic workup <94JOC3783>. 

Several of the anthracycline antibiotics are highly effective against a wide variety of tumours, but possess a toxicity that severely limits dosage. In consequence considerable efforts have been directed towards modification of structure, and in one case lowering of toxicity has been achieved by replacing the carbohydrate moiety L-daunosamine (115) by its C-4 epimer L-acosamine (116). A chiral synthesis of both these compounds has now been reported. The key step is an intramolecular nitrone-olefin cycloaddition [(112) -> (113) and (114) in a ratio of 82 18] in which the chiral side-chain exerts considerable asymmetric induction. The major isomer (113) could be converted to either (115) or (116) by conventional means. 

Based on the enantioselective Michael addition/ISOC (intramolecular silyl nitronate olefin cycloaddition)/lragmentation sequence previously developed by the group of Rodriguez [33a], Shao and coworkers proposed an extrapolation for the construction of spirooxindoles catalyzed by a bifunctional tertiary amine-thiourea catalyst XV between 4-allyl-substituted oxindoles 63 and nitrostyrenes 64 (Scheme 10.21) [33b]. After the addition of TMSCl and EtgN at -30 C, the Michael adduct underwent an ISCX3 to afford the spiro oxime derivatives 65 in very good yields (85-85%), and excellent diastereo (up to >30 1) and enantioselectivities (94-99% ee) after the treatment with TBAF. 

Diels-Alder addition of 2-chloroacrylonitrile and dienes gives the expected adducts, e.g. (310), which may be converted via azide, isocyanate, and hydrolysis to the ketone (311) in good yield. This constitutes a method for 1,4-addition of the methylenecarbonyl unit (—CHgCO—) to dienes. Among the many 1,3-dipolar additions of olefins recently reported are the intramolecular nitrone-olefin cycloadditionse.g. (312) (313), and the... 

Application of the intramolecular nitrone-olefin cycloaddition to 3-0-allyl-o-glucose derivatives 49 and 50 and their D-allo isomers 51 and 52 furnished pyranoisoxazolidines 53 with varying degrees of diastereoselectivity. The main product obtained from 50 gave 54 on trimming of the side chain. ... 

Scheme 37.1 Synthesis of bi- and tricyclic oxazolidines through Michael addition/nitrone formation/intramolecular [3+2] nitrone-olefin cycloaddition cascade reactions (Fu = fliryl).

Werner, KM., De los Santos, J.M., Weinreb, S.M., and Shang, M.Y. (1999) An intramolecular nitrone-olefin dipolar cydoaddition-based approach to total synthesis of the cylindridne and lepadiformine marine alkaloids./. Org. Chem., 64, 4865-4873. 

Although nitrile oxide cycloadditions have been extensively investigated, cycloadditions of silyl nitronates, synthetic equivalent of nitrile oxides in their reactions with olefins, have not received similar attention. Since we found that the initial cycloadducts, hl-silyloxyisoxazolidines, are formed with high degree of stereoselectivity and can be easily transformed into isoxazolines upon treatment with acid or TBAF, intramolecular silylnitronate-olefin cycloadditions (ISOC) have emerged as a superior alternative to their corresponding INOC reactions [43]. Furthermore, adaptability of ISOC reactions to one-pot tandem sequences involving 1,4-addition and ISOC as the key steps has recently been demonstrated [44]. 

Intramolecular nitrone cycloadditions often require higher temperatures as nitrones react more sluggishly with alkenes than do nitrile oxides and the products contain a substituent on nitrogen which may not be desirable. Conspicuously absent among various nitrones employed earlier have been NH nitrones, which are tautomers of the more stable oximes. However, Grigg et al. [58 a] and Padwa and Norman [58b] have demonstrated that under certain conditions oximes can undergo addition to electron deficient olefins as Michael acceptors, followed by cycloadditions to multiple bonds. We found that intramolecular oxime-olefin cycloaddition (lOOC) can occur thermally via an H-nitrone and lead to stereospecific introduction of two or more stereocenters. This is an excellent procedure for the stereoselective introduction of amino alcohol functionality via N-0 bond cleavage. 

The formation of enantiopure tricyclic compounds takes place by intramolecular 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of acyclic nitrones to cyclic olefinic fragments (Scheme 2.214a,b) (706, 707a), or of cyclic nitrones to acyclic olefins (Scheme 2.214c) (116). Recently (707),b intramolecular nitrone cycloaddition reactions (according to Scheme 2.211a) have been applied in the synthesis of... 

Lastly, the radical inter- and intramolecular cyclizations in the presence of one-electron oxidizing agents as a procedure for the synthesis of five-membered cyclic nitronates can be considered. Radical oxidation of a-nitro ketones (19) in the presence of disubstituted olefins under the action of Mn(OAc)3 was documented (72a) (Scheme 3.22, Eq. 1). 

Analogous intramolecular cyclization can be carried out by performing the reaction of CAN with nitro olefin (20) (73) (Scheme 3.23). However, this reaction is unlikely to be useful in the synthesis of a broad range of cyclic nitronates because the starting nitro compounds (similar to (20)) are difficult to prepare. 

With this idea in mind, the retrosynthetic analysis (Scheme 13.2.8) leads now to unsaturated cw-decalin 28 which could be reduced to 5-methyl-2-cyclohexenone 31. In the synthetic direction there was initially the uncertainty of whether nitrone 27 would cyclise to 26b rather than to the desired adduct 26a (see below Scheme 13.2.9). However, the authors felt that in fact the risk was "less critical in view of the regioselectivity observed in intramolecular N-alkenylazomethinimine additions involving non-polarised olefinic bonds" [11][12]. 

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