Osmium aminohydroxylations

Two methods that are particularly convenient for large-scale synthesis of aziridines are discussed below. Both utilize readily available chloramine salts, such as chloramine-T, as sources of nitrogen. The first method involves direct olefin azir-idination catalyzed by phenyltrimethylammonium tribromide (PhNMe3+Br3 PTAB) [42]. In the second method, 1,2-hydroxysulfonamides, conveniently obtained by osmium-catalyzed aminohydroxylation of olefins, are converted into aziridines by one-pot cyclodehydration. 

Amino-Hydroxylation. A related reaction to asymmetric dihydroxylation is the asymmetric amino-hydroxylation of olefins, forming v/c-ami noalcohols. The vic-hydroxyamino group is found in many biologically important molecules, such as the (3-amino acid 3.10 (the side-chain of taxol). In the mid-1970s, Sharpless76 reported that the trihydrate of N-chloro-p-toluenesulfonamide sodium salt (chloramine-T) reacts with olefins in the presence of a catalytic amount of osmium tetroxide to produce vicinal hydroxyl p-toluenesulfonamides (Eq. 3.16). Aminohydroxylation was also promoted by palladium.77... 

In 1975, Sharpless et al. reported that imino-osmium trioxides underwent aminohydroxylation (Scheme 54).208,209 t0 perform aminohydroxylation with high efficiency, regio-, chemo-, and enantioselectivity must be addressed. This had made the practical realization of aminohydroxylation difficult. However, the development of asymmetric dihydroxylation, as described in the preceding section, propelled the study of asymmetric aminohydroxylatyion forward and, in 1996, Sharpless et al. reported a highly enantioselective version of catalytic aminohydroxylation... 

The /Tamino alcohol structural unit is a key motif in many biologically important molecules. It is difficult to imagine a more efficient means of creating this functionality than by the direct addition of the two heteroatom substituents to an olefin, especially if this transformation could also be in regioselective and/ or enantioselective fashion. Although the osmium-mediated75 or palladium-mediated76 aminohydroxylation of alkenes has been studied for 20 years, several problems still remain to be overcome in order to develop this reaction into a catalytic asymmetric process. 

The catalytic asymmetric aminohydroxylation of a variety of styrene derivatives, vinyl aromatics, and some other olefins using osmium tetroxide... 

Dihydroxylations and aminohydroxylations of alkenes are important reactions in organic synthesis in order to introduce 1,2-functionalization into simple unsaturated precursors. Since these transformations mostly involve toxic osmium tetrox-ide or valuable chiral hgands, attempts to immobilize those reagents are especially appealing. 

Finally, osmium tetroxide-loaded, immobihzed DHQ-hgand system (28) disperses activity in the asymmetric aminohydroxylations of trans-cinnamate derivatives (Scheme 4.14) [95]. Here, the reagent system AcNHBr/LiOH was employed as nitrogen source. The immobihzed catalyst could entirely be removed by filtra-... 

There have also been significant advances in the imido chemistry of ruthenium and osmium. A variety of imido complexes in oxidation states +8 to +6 have been reported. Notably, osmium (VIII) imido complexes are active intermediates in osmium-catalyzed asymmetric aminohydroxyl-ations of alkenes. Ruthenium(VI) imido complexes with porphyrin ligands can effect stoichiometric and catalytic aziridination of alkenes. With chiral porphyrins, asymmetric aziridination of alkenes has also been achieved. Some of these imido species may also serve as models for biological processes. An imido species has been postulated as an intermediate in the nitrite reductase cycle. " ... 

In the asymmetric aminohydroxylation (AA) an olefin is converted into a vicinal amino alcohol by means of an osmium(VIII)-mediated suprafacial addition of a nitrogen and an oxygen atom to the double bond. Like the AD, the AA has been developed by modifying an originally stoichiometric, achiral version. Although the first aminohydroxylations were reported in 1976 [70], the asymmetric catalytic protocol is still underdevelopment [71]. 

A vincinal amino alcohol grouping is present in a fair number of natural products which possess useful biological activity, such as antibiotics122. Such a functionality has been produced from alkenes via osmium-mediated aminohydroxylation (equation 22)123. The reaction proceeds in 40-97% yield and is enantioselective if chiral osmium-Cinchona alkaloid complexes are used to mediate the reaction. 

Osmium-catalysed dihydroxylation has been reviewed with emphasis on the use of new reoxidants and recycling of the catalysts.44 Various aspects of asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes by osmium complexes, including the mechanism, acceleration by chiral ligands 45 and development of novel asymmetric dihydroxylation processes,46 has been reviewed. Two reviews on the recent developments in osmium-catalysed asymmetric aminohydroxylation of alkenes have appeared. Factors responsible for chemo-, enantio- and regio-selectivities have been discussed.47,48 Osmium tetraoxide oxidizes unactivated alkanes in aqueous base. Isobutane is oxidized to r-butyl alcohol, cyclohexane to a mixture of adipate and succinate, toluene to benzoate, and both ethane and propane to acetate in low yields. The data are consistent with a concerted 3 + 2 mechanism, analogous to that proposed for alkane oxidation by Ru04, and for alkene oxidations by 0s04.49... 

Alkenes are oxidized to 2-amino ketones in an osmium-catalysed oxidation with CAT. The reaction can also be carried out as a sequential process consisting of asymmetric aminohydroxylation and subsequent oxidation to enantiopure 2-amino ketones.107... 

While osmium is the metal of choice for the AA, there has been a recent report of the copper]I)-catalyzed intramolecular aminohydroxylation starting from hydroxylamines [27], The mechanism of this reaction is distinctively different, involving radicals as intermediates. 

The most impressive methodology utilizing CT, which has been developed by the group of Sharpless, is the vicinal aminohydroxylation of olefins catalyzed by osmium tetroxide [15]. The method has been elegantly extended to a practical asymmetric synthesis [16]. The reaction system was employed to the achiral aminohydroxylation of a,P-unsaturated amides to afford two hydroxysulfonamide regio-isomers. The crude mixtures were cyclized to the aziridines in a one-pot procedure, without the need for purification of the intermediates [17] (Scheme 10). 

Keywords Asymmetric aminohydroxylation, Osmium tetroxide, Cinchona alkaloid, Ligand-accelerated catalysis, Immobilization, Abbreviations... 

In 1975 Sharpless and coworkers discovered the stoichiometric aminohydrox-ylation of alkenes by alkylimido osmium compounds leading to protected vicinal aminoalcohols [1,2]. Shortly after, an improved procedure was reported employing catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide and a nitrogen source (N-chlo-ro-N-metallosulfonamides or carbamates) to generate the active imido osmium species in situ [3-8]. Stoichiometric enantioselective aminohydroxylations were first reported in 1994 [9]. Finally, in 1996 the first report on a catalytic asymmetric aminohydroxylation (AA) was published [10]. During recent years, several reviews have covered the AA reaction [11-16]. 

Table 9 Asymmetric aminohydroxylation of isopropyl cinnamate with 10 mol% osmium tetroxide...

The first successful osmium-catalyzed asymmetric aminohydroxylation and dihydroxylation of thiophene acrylates have been reported. The aminohydroxylation of 2-thienyl-, 5-bromo-2-thienyl-, and 3-thienylacrylates proceeds with high regio- and enantioselectivity (Equation 75) <1999SL1907. Yields were about 67-68%, with the regioselectivity of 151 over 152 being >15 1. The ee was 99%. 

Sharpless and co-workers first reported the aminohydroxyIation of alkenes in 1975 and have subsequently extended the reaction into an efficient one-step catalytic asymmetric aminohydroxylation. This reaction uses an osmium catalyst [K20s02(OH)4], chloramine salt (such as chloramine T see Chapter 7, section 7.6) as the oxidant and cinchona alkaloid 1.71 or 1.72 as the chiral ligand. For example, asymmetric aminohydroxylation of styrene (1.73) could produce two regioisomeric amino alcohols 1.74 and 1.75. Using Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation, (IR)-N-ethoxycarbonyl-l-phenyl-2-hydroxyethylamine (1.74) was obtained by O Brien et al as the major product and with high enantiomeric excess than its regioisomeric counterpart (R)-N-ethoxycarbonyl-2-phenyl-2-hydroxyethylamine (1.75). The corresponding free amino alcohols were obtained by deprotection of ethyl carbamate (urethane) derivatives. 

Muniz K. Imido-osmium(VIII) compounds in organic synthesis I. Aminohydroxylation and diamination reactions. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2004 33 166-174. 

Tethered aminohydroxylation is a powerful strategy for the regioselective synthesis ofty -amino alcohols. This concept has been demonstrated by Donohoe s group, who have found that A -sulfonyloxy carbamates such as the tethered 0-mesityl hydroxylamine 304 brought about intermolecular aminohydroxylation. Using catalytic osmium, linear A -sulfonyloxy carbamate underwent aminohydroxylation with concurrent formation of a 2-oxazolidinone 305 (Equation 24). The -sulfonyloxy group also served as a reoxidant for Os which allowed the process to be catalytic <2006JA2514>. 

Pringle, W., Sharpless, K. B. The osmium-catalyzed aminohydroxylation of Baylis-Hillman olefins. Tetrahedron Lett. 1999,40, 5151-5154. 

Rudolph, J., Sennhenn, P. C., Vlaar, C. P., Sharpless, K. B. Smaller substituents on nitrogen facilitate the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric aminohydroxylation. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl. 1997, 35, 2810-2813. 

Miscellaneous Reagents. Chloramine-T/Osmium Tetroxide. The Sharpless asymmetric aminohydroxylation system for olefins (4-MeC6H4S02N(Na)Cl/ OsCVcinchona alkaloid derived catalysts)340,341 converts silyl enol ethers into a-(p-tosylamino) ketones in 34-40% yield and 76-92% ee (see Eq. 99).342... 

The Sharpless asymmetric hydroxylation can take one of two forms, the initially developed asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD)1 or the more recent variation, asymmetric aminohydroxylation (AA).2 In the case of AD, the product is a 1,2-diol, whereas in the AA reaction, a 1,2-amino alcohol is the desired product. These reactions involve the asymmetric transformation of an alkene to a vicinally functionalized alcohol mediated by osmium tetraoxide in the presence of chiral ligands (e.g., (DHQD)2-PHAL or (DHQ)2-PHAL). A mixture of these reagents (ligand, osmium, base, and oxidant) is commercially available and is sold under the name of AD-mix p or AD-mix a (vide infra). 

A tethered aminohydroxylation (TA) reaction extends the utility of carbamate versions of the nitrogen source.29 Combining the nitrogen source with allylic or homoallylic alcohols enabled formation of products not previously accessible. Thus, exposure of 48 to the osmium reagent, in the absence of a chlorinating agent and base, led to cyclized amino alcohol 49. A similar result was observed for homoallylic alcohol derivative 50. 

An obvious extension of the AD-process would be the asymmetric transfer of heteroatoms other than oxygen to a carbon carbon double bond. Indeed, the osmium catalyzed [3] or palladium mediated [4] aminohydroxylation of alkenes has been known for 20 years. The resulting jff-amino alcohols are an important structural element in biologically active compounds as well as the starting point in the design of many chiral ligands. However, to develop this reaction into a catalytic, asymmetric process several problems had to be overcome. 

According to the original protocol [3] alkenes can be converted to racemic iV-tosyl protected 9-amino alcohols in the presence of catalytic amounts of osmium tetroxide using N-chloramine-T as the nitrenoid source and water as the hydroxyl source. However, unlike the AD-process, the aminohydroxylation of unsymmetrical alkenes can lead to two regio-isomeric products which was a drawback in... 

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