Osmium tetroxide-sodium periodate, ketones

Exercise 16-37 An elegant modification of the two-step procedure to prepare ketones from alkenes by hydroxylation and oxidative cleavage of the diol formed uses a small amount of potassium permanganate (or osmium tetroxide, 0s04) as the catalyst and sodium periodate as the oxidizing agent ... 

The conversion of tetrasubstituted double bonds to the coiresptxiding ketones is easily achieved using a number of oxidants. However, if one or more of the alkenic carbons is secondary, the product will be either an aldehyde or a carboxylic acid. Ozone and a combination of osmium tetroxide and sodium meta-periodate are recommended if the desired product is an aldehyde. Under carefully controlled conditions it is also possible to obtain good yields of the aldehyde when permanganate is used as the oxidant All methods that give aldehydes from secondary carbons can also be used to prepare ketones from tertiary carbons. 

Gallc er and co-workers devised a formal enantioselective synthesis of ( — )-3 in wduch the stereogenic center at C-6 was derived fiom Cbz-protected (S)-2-amino-4-pentenoic acid (36) (44). Acylation of 3,3-dimethoxy-pyrrolidine (37) with this acid yielded amide 38, which was converted into aldehyde 39 by cleavage of the terminal alkene vnth osmium tetroxide and sodium periodate (Scheme 5). The indolizidine nucleus was constructed from 39 by a problematic intramolecular aldol condensation, which was eventually optimized by using 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine as base followed by adsorption onto, and elution from, silica gel (45). Diastereoselective reduction of the ketone group of the aldol product 40 was accomplished in better than 95% enantiomeric excess (ee) with the Corey... 

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